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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Apr 27, 1999
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify certain air transportation tax changes made by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. Repeals the inflation adjustment for the $12 tax ($6 tax for any domestic segment beginning or ending in Alaska or Hawaii) on the use of international travel facilities for any air transportation of any person. Applies to any airport not connected by paved roads to another airport the exemption from the domestic segment tax of any domestic segment of a flight beginning or ending in a rural airport. Increases from 7.5 percent to ten percent the general tax on air transportation involving one or more domestic segments at least one of which begins or ends in Alaska or Hawaii or in the case of a domestic segment beginning and ending in Alaska or Hawaii. Repeals the application of the domestic segment tax to such segments (thus restoring the rate for such segments in effect before the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997).
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Sen. Murkowski, Frank H. [R-AK] · R–AK
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4278)
Introduced in Senate
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