2021 House Ways And Means Tax Proposals
CBO releases final scores for OBBBA. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will increase the uninsurance rate by 10 million individuals over 10 years. House Energy and...more
Throughout the first six months of 2025, proponents of tax-exempt bond financing feared that Congress might eliminate the exemption of interest on such bonds from federal income taxation in its search for spending reductions...more
On July 16, the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing titled Making America the Crypto Capital of the World: Ensuring Digital Asset Policy Built for the 21st Century. The hearing confronted the widening...more
Earlier this year, many low-income taxpayers were elated to learn about the possibility that tipped wages could receive federal income tax relief under the No Tax On Tips Act. Under President Trump’s “One, Big Beautiful...more
On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by a single-vote margin. This bill adopted many of the recommendations of the House Ways and Means Committee, with a few changes along the...more
Former Congressman Peter Roskam, who leads BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team, provides listeners with a front-row seat to the most important policy and political debates in Congress. In this episode of “The Cloakroom with...more
On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives passed the highly anticipated budget reconciliation bill, referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” with revisions from the House Rules Committee. On May 21, 2025, the House...more
On May 14, 2025, the House Ways and Means Committee approved the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” (Bill). We have issued several other alerts regarding the Bill. Among other tax provisions, the Bill includes two provisions...more
On May 22, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” legislation authorized under the FY 2025 concurrent budget resolution (H. Con. Res. 14). The bill includes a broad range of...more
On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives passed (by a vote of 215-214-1) its version of the budget reconciliation bill (H.R. 1, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act") containing numerous tax reform provisions. Below are our...more
On May 13, the House Ways and Means Committee voted to approve a $3.8 trillion tax bill that would make permanent much of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The bill then moved to the House Budget Committee, where it was merged...more
On May 22, 2025 the House of Representatives passed its version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “BBB”). As described in our prior Alert, the proposed package includes several key provisions of particular importance...more
Welcome to this week’s edition of Tax Bytes. Our team of tax lawyers is actively monitoring for federal and international tax developments and issues of note. Each week we pull together the items we deem most important to...more
On May 12, 2025, the House Committee on Ways and Means (WMC) released a draft of the tax provisions of the highly anticipated budget reconciliation bill, referred to as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act (OBBB), and on May 14,...more
On May 12, 2025, the Republicans from the House Committee on Ways and Means released an updated draft tax bill. Several of the provisions in the draft would affect tax-exempt organizations. The bill will almost certainly...more
On May 12, 2025, the House Ways and Means Committee released “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” containing its draft tax legislation (the OBBB), which includes a number of items that may be of particular interest to US employers...more
On May 14, 2025, the House Ways and Means Committee approved the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” containing the tax provisions destined for the budget reconciliation package. Several of the bill’s provisions would affect...more
On May 12, 2025, the Republicans on the House Committee on Ways and Means released a draft bill showing their tax plan for the budget reconciliation legislation. The legislation will likely undergo significant changes as it...more
On May 12, the House Ways and Means Committee released its draft portions of “The One Big Beautiful Bill,” the expected tax package intended to extend expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) and to...more
On Friday, May 9, the House Ways and Means Committee released a portion of its draft tax legislation (the “House Draft Bill”) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”). The House Draft Bill is primarily...more
As both chambers of Congress worked to pass their versions of the budget resolution, tax writers on the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee, along with their respective leadership, had to decide...more
“Republicans generally agree on their substantial legislative priorities as they prepare to take the governing reins in the new year. The challenge of governing in Washington though is that process often trumps substance.” —...more
Providing medical care in a patient’s home has become increasingly popular with both providers and patients since the COVID-19 pandemic. Stevens & Lee previously blogged about the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home Individual...more