Posted on 07/22/2004 8:56:51 AM PDT by ancient_geezer
Linder votes for Tax Simplification and
Relief Bills
House Republicans Continue to Provide Tax Relief
Washington, D.C. (July 22) - Congressman John Linder (R-GA) joined with a majority of his House colleagues yesterday to simplify the tax code. Both tax bills passed the House, largely on party lines.
"The Republican Majority is committed to providing hard working Americans with tax relief," Linder stated. "The passage of these two tax simplification bills will allow our economy to continue to move forward with less complexity."
H.R. 4840, sponsored by Representative Phil Crane (R-IL), helps small business by encouraging investment and simplifying bookkeeping and tax reporting requirements. Additionally, H.R. 4841, sponsored by Representative Max Burns (R-GA), simplifies tax filing by terminating the Internal Revenue Service's confusing use of inconsistent definitions regarding a taxpayer's age, increasing access to the time-saving 1040A and 1040EZ forms, and eliminating a number of outdated and unnecessary provisions in the tax code.
"While I supported both of these measures, I believe that we need to stop tinkering with the 54,800 pages of Internal Revenue Code and IRS regulations," Linder continued. "We are only creating a temporary fix to the fundamental problem that our tax system is flawed and needs to be overhauled. It should be abolished and replaced with the FairTax, a simple national retail sales tax."
H.R.25, S.1493
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.Refer for additional information: http://www.fairtax.org & http://www.salestax.org
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Agree with dumping the tax code and when it is revised to a one page form and the tax code comprises of 10 pages, I'll buy reform! Think it can't be done. We went to the moon, didn't we?
Thanks, geez. And thanks to John Linder. Sorry our man Cain lost the Georgia primary for the Senate.
Agree with dumping the tax code and when it is revised to a one page form and the tax code comprises of 10 pages
Individual tax return under the NRST FairTax:
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No special trip to the post office.
No personal information sent to the government.
No intrusive questions about your amount of income, source of income, filing status, marital status, family members, investments, or 58,000 other pages of information that this government of, by, and for the people, has no business asking for.
Sending the information is optional and opting out has limited consequences.
, you'd still get child credits, etc as refunds. correct me if I'm wrong.
Households would receive a demogrant covering NRST for the povertyline of expenditure based solely on number of legal residents in the household.
Applying for such is entirely voluntary however.
Your employer is still required to report your wages to the Social Security Adminstration for benefits.
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