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- 7/16/2009Woods said that AMT supported several business tax provisions that were included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The top two were a one-year extension through 2009 of the 50 percent bonus depreciation on new equipment purchases, and the enhanced Section 179 expensing on new and used investments.
“Our companies have been faced with customers who normally might be encouraged by these provisions to invest in equipment, but who either cannot get the working capital to do so, have sunk into loss positions this year and no longer qualify, or who are just too reluctant to make investments until they have a better sense of where the economy is headed,” he said. “We really need the depreciation incentives extended through at least 2010 to get the intended stimulative effect from them."
Woods expressed optimism that another provision included in the stimulus bill—the expansion of the Net Operating Loss carryback from two to five years—would offer some relief to companies that fell into loss positions in 2008. However, Woods observed that many of AMT’s member companies did not fall into loss positions during 2008, and that the provision would only help if it were extended to companies that experienced losses in 2009 and 2010.
To further assist these companies, Woods proposed that Congress and the administration give small businesses a six-month reprieve from paying certain federal business taxes, such as the payroll tax. Woods also urged Congress to act immediately to help loosen credit for small businesses, particularly manufacturers.
At the same time, Woods cautioned against enacting any new taxes against American businesses, as it could mean that “Congress will undo virtually everything it has been trying to do now to put our economy into recovery.”
Read the full story at amtonline.org.
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