NCAI Tax Reform Update
December 8, 2017
Tax Reform
Update
On December 2, the Senate passed its
tax reform bill, which means the House and Senate must now resolve the differences
between their bills. The Senate bill does not
include any tribal provisions while the House bill has one
tribal provision that would treat the loan repayment benefits offered by the
Indian Health Service the same as loan repayment benefits offered by other
public sector health services providers for purposes of income taxes.
Last week, both the House and Senate
voted to go to conference and named their conferees. Once the conferees
negotiate the final package, each chamber will hold a vote. We expect the
House vote to occur early next week, and the Senate vote to occur after the
House vote and before the end of the week.
On December 6, NCAI and NAFOA sent a
joint letter to the conferees expressing the need to include tribes.
Additionally, because changes made during conference must be related to the
bills being conferenced, NCAI prepared a memorandum analyzing how tribal tax
priorities are related to provisions currently being considered in the House
and Senate bills.
Tribes, NCAI, and other
organizations continue to urge Congress to include Indian Country in the
final tax reform package.
A chart of House and Senate conferees is available: here
The NCAI-NAFOA letter is available: here
The NCAI memorandum is available: here
NCAI Contact Info: Jacob Schellinger, Staff Attorney & Legislative Counsel, jschellinger@ncai.org
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