S. 3974: A bill to permit a special amortization deduction for intangible assets acquired from eligible small businesses to take account of the actual economic useful life of such assets and to encourage growth in industries for which intangible assets are an important source of revenue.
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S. 3974: A bill to permit a special amortization deduction for intangible assets acquired from eligible small businesses to take account of the actual economic useful life of such assets and to encourage growth in industries for which intangible assets are an important source of revenue.
109th Congress · introduced 2006-09-28 · Taxation · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2006-09-28 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
A bill to permit a special amortization deduction for intangible assets acquired from eligible small businesses to take account of the actual economic useful life of such assets and to encourage growth in industries for which intangible assets are an important source of revenue.
Plain summary
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a special amortization tax deduction for up to $5 million of the intangible property acquired from an eligible small business (i.e., gross receipts not exceeding $5 million for the three preceding taxable years) after December 31, 2005.
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Official text
A bill to permit a special amortization deduction for intangible assets acquired from eligible small businesses to take account of the actual economic useful life of such assets and to encourage growth in industries for which intangible assets are an important source of revenue.
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY] · 1 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-109s3974.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/109/s>
Record fed-us-cong109-s3974 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong109 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong109