Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2021
Summary
Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2021 This bill sets forth tax relief provisions for taxpayers residing in a disaster zone. Specifically, the bill allows penalty-free qualified disaster distributions from tax-exempt retirement plans up to $100,000; allows recontributions of distributions for home purchases cancelled due to disasters; increases to $100,000 the limit on loans from retirement plans not treated as distributions; allows an employee retention tax credit for 40% of wages paid by employers affected by a disaster; expands eligibility for disaster-related personal casualty losses; allows exclusions from gross income, for income tax purposes, of amounts received from state-based catastrophe loss mitigation programs and emergency agricultural assistance; suspends the limitation on corporate charitable contributions; allows the Small Business Administration to award grants to accomodate extraordinary occurrences having a catastrophic impact on small business concerns; and allows a new tax credit for 30% of qualified wildfire mitigation expenditures.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jun 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jun 16, 2021
Last action Jul 20, 2021
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Actions timeline
Total actions
3
Key actions
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Committee
2
Jul 20, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
lower
Jun 16, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Small Business, and Agriculture, 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.
lower
Jun 16, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mike Thompson
DDemocratic
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