Ways and Means [1 of 2], 1982

Letters to the congressman regarding the budget deficit; changes to annuities in the IRS Code; tax on cigarettes; taxes on savings accounts; tax cuts for small businesses; sales tax; Social Security; the Revenue Act of 1978; Independent Contractor Tax Status Clarification Act of 1981 (HR 4351); repaying the national debt; revenue receipts of the federal government; Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase the amount of the deduction allowable for certain moving expenses (S 565/HR 2539); a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase the amount of certain moving expenses allowable as a deduction (HR 3743); tax-exempt bonds by not-for-profit hospitals; levying income taxes to straight percentage of gross income; financing State and municipal governments; police benefit bills; recession; Debt Collection Act of 1982 (HR 4613); a bill to authorize appropriations for the United States International Trade Commission, the United States Customs Service, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative for the fiscal year 1983 (HR 6094); a bill to extend for 2 additional years the residual authority to negotiate duties under the Trade Act of 1974 (HR 4761); Airport and Airway Revenue Act of 1982 (HR 4800); revenue estimates for legislation; Monetary Control Act of 1980; a bill to repeal the Monetary Control Act of 1980 (HR 3599); a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a business deduction for certain self-insurance reserves; Revenue Enhancements; Foreign Tax Credits; limiting annual deductions of corporations on retirement plans; Small Issue Industrial Development Bond Reform Act of 1982 (S 2541); a bill to amend the manufacturing clause of the copyright law (HR 6198); a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for the disclosure of returns and return information for use in criminal investigations (HR 6475); tax on imported crude oil; a bill to prevent retroactive recharacterization for tax purposes of certain binding lease contracts that include a terminal rental adjustment clause (HR 6358); a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to deny the deduction for amounts paid or incurred for certain advertisements carried by certain foreign broadcasting undertakings (S 2051); user fees at the federal register; Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (HR 4961); repealing the Business Energy Investment Tax Credit; a bill to provide for the payment, out of the proceeds of gold belonging to the Republic of Czechoslovakia, of certified awards of national of the United States against the Government of Czechoslovakia and to provide for the release of such proceeds to Czechoslovakia after all such awards and certain other debts are paid (HR 2631); a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the exemption from tax of veteran organizations (HR 2597); eliminating the consumer debt deduction; a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase the amount allowed to be deducted each taxable year for expenses incurred in connection with the elimination of architectural and transportation barriers for the handicapped and elderly from $25,000 to $100,000, and to make permanent the allowance of such deduction (S 27/HR 6460); a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exclude from gross income amounts which are received from a public retirement system and which are attributable to services as a Federal, State, or local policeman and fireman (HR 6301); Tax Compliance Act of 1982 (HR 6300); a bill to amend title 28 of the United States Code to provide for an exclusive remedy against the United States in suits based upon acts or omissions of United States employees, to provide a remedy against the United States with respect to constitutional torts, to establish procedures whereby a person injured by a constitutional tort may initiate and participate in a disciplinary inquiry with respect to such tort (HR 24); a bill to amend title 28 of the United States Code to provide for an exclusive remedy against the United States in suits based upon acts or omissions of United States employees, to provide a remedy against the United States with respect to constitutional torts (HR 7034); the Revenue Act of 1978; a bill to amend sections 46(f) and 167(l) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the treatment of public utility property (HR 1524);