S. 139 · 112th Congress
Equal Access to Tax Planning Act
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BaucusSponsor10 cosponsors · 7 D, 3 R
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Risch7 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.
Equal Access to Tax Planning Act - Deems any strategy for reducing, avoiding, or deferring tax liability insufficient to differentiate a claimed invention from the prior art when evaluating specified conditions of patentability under federal patent law.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Jan 25, 2011
Equal Access to Tax Planning Act - Deems any strategy for reducing, avoiding, or deferring tax liability insufficient to differentiate a claimed invention from the prior art when evaluating specified conditions of patentability under federal patent law.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Equal Access to Tax Planning Act
Latest action (Jan 25, 2011): Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Policy area: Commerce · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Jan 25, 2011
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.