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<dc:title>118 HR 7993 IH: Estate Tax Rate Reduction Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2024-04-15</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">118th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">2d Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 7993</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20240415">April 15, 2024</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="A000375">Mr. Arrington</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HWM00">Committee on Ways and Means</committee-name>, and in addition to the Committee on <committee-name committee-id="HBU00">the Budget</committee-name>, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned</action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the rate of tax on estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers.</official-title></form><legis-body id="H43117DB2DE2B4BC582D2A6CE6865BD15" style="OLC"> 
<section id="HB9F835A8B2524C73A07AC5B74270DCEA" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Estate Tax Rate Reduction Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section id="H8E17ADB0078042EF80DEC3A888D2B811"><enum>2.</enum><header>Reduction of rate of tax on estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers</header> <subsection id="H6EC03A32F9C94F58885DF7491E643288"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/2001">Section 2001</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended—</text> 
<paragraph id="H4499093EAE9B45E8A2D115BC82090DA1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8764D6275BD546FFB90B8E7C486627BA" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HBB47906065414E859AD52CA0AED03284"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Rate of tax</header><text>For purposes of determining the tentative tax, the rate of tax shall be 20 percent of the amount with respect to which the tentative tax is computed.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> 
<paragraph id="H2A0F53EA27AD434D8C953F541B851435"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (g)(1), by striking <quote>rates of tax under subsection (c)</quote> and inserting <quote>rate of tax under subsection (c)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> <subsection id="H45EDC1BDF1E1492F8C8BA24605B2E9B1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header> <paragraph id="H77775E2742A04AE2AF5893BC740EE1F7"><enum>(1)</enum><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/2056A">Section 2056A(b)(2)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended—</text> 
<subparagraph id="H1A2C91F9E724492C90227F79D0429BDE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking <quote>highest</quote>; and</text></subparagraph> <subparagraph id="H25B36D71487B473C92CE90E88A3D2AAE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C), by striking <quote>highest</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph> 
<paragraph id="H21388E1F333146B299549B0FE7174D24"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 2107(a) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>the table contained in</quote> and inserting <quote>the rate of tax under</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H6C78F8A9C2E14FFFB2E9C2737E265CEB"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Section 2201(a) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>the rate schedule set forth in section 2001(c)</quote> and inserting <quote>the rate of tax under section 2001(c)</quote>.</text></paragraph> 
<paragraph id="HC9A7A287E9504D5CAFDD740AA8BB0DE3"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Section 2641 of such Code is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4E46ADE276F9456D8831F014EE3B59E2" style="OLC"> <section id="H0668AB0E274D4CF990153413DBABE881"><enum>2641.</enum><header>Applicable rate</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For purposes of this chapter, the term <term>applicable rate</term> means, with respect to any generation-skipping transfer, the product of—</text> 
<paragraph id="HA235FC656F4C46959E72D582B4061545"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the rate imposed by section 2001 on the estates of decedents dying at the time of the taxable distribution, taxable termination, or direct skip, as the case may be, and</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HC075AE196B154C7CAE5CE606E221A839"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the inclusion ratio with respect to the transfer.</text></paragraph></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph> 
<paragraph id="H28533A991FA542D68E807EB0FAF86DF0"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Section 2801(a)(1) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>the highest rate of tax specified in the table contained in</quote> and inserting <quote>the rate of tax under</quote>.</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="H23635680568146CBB227A03ACC038434"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Section 6601(j)(2)(A)(i) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>the rate schedule set forth in</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection> 
<subsection id="H73A8C295067440C98B2C97975C6A9D1A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to estates of decedents dying, generation-skipping transfers, and gifts made, after December 31, 2022.</text></subsection> <subsection id="H4D0E196B5D9F4642A991388ED42D3BA4"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Budgetary effects</header> <paragraph id="H2F93C5ABADF94EBF840FA7D9F7DBC544"><enum>(1)</enum><header>PAYGO scorecard</header><text>The budgetary effects of this section shall not be entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/2/933">2 U.S.C. 933(d)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph> 
<paragraph id="H93A02381B8D544A7A775F9115153FBF3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Senate PAYGO scorecard</header><text>The budgetary effects of this section shall not be entered on any PAYGO scorecard maintained for purposes of section 4106 of H. Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.</text></paragraph></subsection></section> </legis-body></bill>

