如不能通过对2012年替代性最低税(alternative minimum tax,简称AMT)的修改,就会对美国2013年第一财季的增长产生影响。不修改的话,按照AMT缴纳额外税款的人将增加2,800万。最初设立此税是针对高收入者,但现在数百万中等收入人群也不得不“束手就擒。
Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven Miller, in a letter to House Ways and Means ranking minority member Sander Levin (D-MI), reported that the IRS has programmed its computers in the expectation that Congress would adjust the AMT, as it has done in prior years. Reprogramming the computers would take months, and 60 million taxpayers would be unable to file returns or get refunds until late March.
美国国税局(Internal Revenue Service)代理局长米勒(Steven Miller)在给众议院筹款委员会(House Ways and Means Committee)少数党领袖列文(Sander Levin)的信中宣称,国税局已经像往年一样,按照国会将调整AMT的预期对电脑程序进行调整。调整电脑程序将需要几个月的时间,明年3月底之前,6,000万纳税人将无法申请退税或拿到退款。
The IRS pays out about $170 billion a year in refunds, a substantial portion in the first quarter. Delayed refunds would slow first-quarter growth.
国税局每年的退税支出约1,700亿美元,其中很大一部分是在第一季度。推迟退税会导致一季度经济增长放缓。
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