[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2888 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2888

    To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny employers a 
           deduction for payments of excessive compensation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2003

   Mr. Sabo (for himself, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
    Sanders, Mr. Delahunt, Ms. Lee, Mr. Lipinski, and Ms. McCollum) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to deny employers a 
           deduction for payments of excessive compensation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Income Equity Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. DENIAL OF DEDUCTION FOR PAYMENTS OF EXCESSIVE COMPENSATION.

    (a) In General.--Section 162 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
(relating to deduction for trade or business expenses) is amended by 
inserting after subsection (h) the following new subsection:
    ``(i) Excessive Compensation.--
            ``(1) In general.--No deduction shall be allowed under this 
        chapter for any excessive compensation with respect to any 
        full-time employee.
            ``(2) Excessive compensation.--For purposes of this 
        subsection, the term `excessive compensation' means, with 
        respect to any employee, the amount by which--
                    ``(A) the compensation for services performed by 
                such employee during the taxable year, exceeds
                    ``(B) an amount equal to 25 times the lowest 
                compensation for services performed by any other full-
                time employee during such taxable year.
            ``(3) Definitions and special rules.--For purposes of this 
        subsection--
                    ``(A) Compensation.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The term `compensation' 
                        means salary, wages, and bonuses.
                            ``(ii) Inclusion of noncash benefits.--The 
                        term `compensation' includes any remuneration 
                        (including benefits) in any medium other than 
                        cash, but shall not include--
                                    ``(I) any payment referred to in so 
                                much of section 3121(a)(5) as precedes 
                                subparagraph (E) thereof, and
                                    ``(II) any benefit provided to or 
                                on behalf of an employee if at the time 
                                such benefit is provided it is 
                                reasonable to believe that the employee 
                                will be able to exclude such benefit 
                                from gross income under this chapter.
                            ``(iii) Part-year employees.--In the case 
                        of any part-year employee, the compensation of 
                        the employee shall be computed on an annualized 
                        basis.
                    ``(B) Employer.--All persons treated as a single 
                employer under subsection (a) or (b) of section 52 or 
                subsection (m) or (o) of section 414 shall be treated 
                as 1 employer.''
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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