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<item congress="113" measure-type="s" measure-number="1085" measure-id="id113s1085" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2013-06-03" update-date="2013-06-27">
<title>Small Business Tax Certainty and Growth Act of 2013</title>
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<action-date>2013-06-03</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Small Business Tax Certainty and Growth Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress should undertake comprehensive tax reform to make the tax system fairer and simpler and to promote economic growth.</p> <p>Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the increased tax deductions for business start-up expenditures, organizational expenditures, and organization and syndication fees; (2) allow the cash accounting method for businesses whose gross receipts do not exceed $10 million (currently, $5 million); (3) exempt businesses whose gross receipts do not exceed $10 million from the requirement to use inventories; (4) make permanent the $250,000 allowance for expensing business assets, including computer software; (5) extend for one year the additional depreciation allowance for business assets; and (6) extend through 2014 the 15-year straight-line depreciation allowance for qualified leasehold, restaurant, and retail improvements.</p>]]></summary-text>
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