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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="4438" measure-id="id113hr4438" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2014-04-09" update-date="2014-05-20">
<title>American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2014</title>
<summary summary-id="id113hr4438v36" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2014-05-20">
<action-date>2014-05-09</action-date>
<action-desc>Passed House amended</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a permanent research tax credit that allows for: (1) 20% of the qualified or basic research expenses that exceed 50% of the average qualified or basic research expenses for the 3 preceding taxable years, and (2) 20% of amounts paid to an energy research consortium for energy research. Reduces such credit rate to 10% if a taxpayer has no qualified research expenses in any one of the 3 preceding taxable years. </p> <p>Prohibits the entry of the budgetary effects of this Act on any PAYGO scorecard.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<summary summary-id="id113hr4438v17" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2014-05-06">
<action-date>2014-05-02</action-date>
<action-desc>Reported to House amended</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a permanent research tax credit that allows for: (1) 20% of the qualified or basic research expenses that exceed 50% of the average qualified or basic research expenses for the 3 preceding taxable years, and (2) 20% of amounts paid to an energy research consortium for energy research. Reduces such credit rate to 10% if a taxpayer has no qualified research expenses in any one of the 3 preceding taxable years. </p>]]></summary-text>
</summary>
<summary summary-id="id113hr4438v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2014-05-05">
<action-date>2014-04-09</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the formula for calculating the&nbsp;amount of the reseach tax credit and make such revised credit permanent. </p>]]></summary-text>
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