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22 118THCONGRESS
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44 STSESSION H. R. 313
55 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide emergency savings
66 accounts for small businesses.
77 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
88 JANUARY12, 2023
99 Mr. C
1010 LOUDintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
1111 on Ways and Means
1212 A BILL
1313 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide
1414 emergency savings accounts for small businesses.
1515 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
1616 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
1717 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
1818 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Small Business Emer-4
1919 gency Savings Accounts Act of 2023’’. 5
2020 SEC. 2. DEDUCTION FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SMALL BUSI-6
2121 NESS EMERGENCY SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. 7
2222 (a) I
2323 NGENERAL.—Part VI of subchapter B of chap-8
2424 ter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to 9
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2828 itemized deductions for individuals and corporations) is 1
2929 amended by adding at the end the following new section: 2
3030 ‘‘SEC. 200. SMALL BUSINESS EMERGENCY SAVINGS AC-3
3131 COUNTS. 4
3232 ‘‘(a) D
3333 EDUCTIONALLOWED.—In the case of a eligi-5
3434 ble business, there shall be allowed as a deduction for the 6
3535 taxable year an amount equal to the aggregate amount 7
3636 paid during such taxable year by such business to a small 8
3737 business emergency savings account of such business. 9
3838 ‘‘(b) L
3939 IMITATION.—The amount allowed as a deduc-10
4040 tion under subsection (a) to any business for any taxable 11
4141 year shall not exceed the lesser of— 12
4242 ‘‘(1) 25 percent of the wages (as defined in sec-13
4343 tion 3121(a)) paid by the eligible business during 14
4444 such taxable year, or 15
4545 ‘‘(2) the greater of— 16
4646 ‘‘(A) zero, or 17
4747 ‘‘(B) the maximum amount which when 18
4848 added to the balance of such account (as deter-19
4949 mined at the end of such taxable year but with-20
5050 out regard to contributions made during such 21
5151 taxable year) would not result in such balance 22
5252 (as so determined) to exceed 150 percent of 23
5353 wages (as defined in section 3121(a)) paid by 24
5454 the eligible business during such taxable year. 25
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5858 ‘‘(c) ELIGIBLEBUSINESS.—For purposes of this sec-1
5959 tion, the term ‘eligible business’ means any person if— 2
6060 ‘‘(1) such person carries on any trade or busi-3
6161 ness in the United States (other than the trade or 4
6262 business of being an employee), and 5
6363 ‘‘(2) the average number of full-time employees 6
6464 (as determined for purposes of determining whether 7
6565 an employer is an applicable large employer for pur-8
6666 poses of section 4980H(c)(2)) employed by such em-9
6767 ployer during the taxable year does not exceed 500. 10
6868 ‘‘(d) S
6969 MALLBUSINESSEMERGENCYSAVINGSAC-11
7070 COUNT.—For purposes of this section— 12
7171 ‘‘(1) I
7272 N GENERAL.—The term ‘small business 13
7373 emergency savings account’ means a trust created or 14
7474 organized in the United States as a small business 15
7575 emergency savings account exclusively for the pur-16
7676 pose of paying the qualified disaster and public 17
7777 health emergency expenses of the account bene-18
7878 ficiary, but only if the written governing instrument 19
7979 creating the trust meets the following requirements: 20
8080 ‘‘(A) Except in the case of a rollover con-21
8181 tribution described in subsection (f)(5), no con-22
8282 tribution will be accepted unless it is in cash. 23
8383 ‘‘(B) The trustee is a bank (as defined in 24
8484 section 408(n)), an insurance company (as de-25
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8888 fined in section 816), or another person who 1
8989 demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Sec-2
9090 retary that the manner in which such person 3
9191 will administer the trust will be consistent with 4
9292 the requirements of this section. 5
9393 ‘‘(C) No part of the trust assets will be in-6
9494 vested in life insurance contracts. 7
9595 ‘‘(D) The assets of the trust will not be 8
9696 commingled with other property except in a 9
9797 common trust fund or common investment 10
9898 fund. 11
9999 ‘‘(E) The interest of account beneficiary in 12
100100 the balance in the account is nonforfeitable. 13
101101 ‘‘(2) Q
102102 UALIFIED DISASTER AND PUBLIC 14
103103 HEALTH EMERGENCY EXPENSES .—The term ‘quali-15
104104 fied disaster and public health emergency expenses’ 16
105105 means— 17
106106 ‘‘(A) disaster loss replacement expenses, 18
107107 ‘‘(B) disaster recovery operations expenses, 19
108108 and 20
109109 ‘‘(C) public health emergency expenses. 21
110110 ‘‘(3) D
111111 ISASTER LOSS REPLACEMENT EX -22
112112 PENSES.—The term ‘disaster loss replacement ex-23
113113 penses’ means any expense paid or incurred in the 24
114114 ordinary course of a trade or business of the eligible 25
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118118 business to replace or repair casualty losses totaling 1
119119 $3,000 or more resulting from a federally declared 2
120120 disaster. 3
121121 ‘‘(4) D
122122 ISASTER RECOVERY OPERATIONS EX -4
123123 PENSES.—The term ‘disaster recovery operations ex-5
124124 penses’ means the following amounts if paid or in-6
125125 curred in the ordinary course of a trade or business 7
126126 of the eligible business while the declaration with re-8
127127 spect to a federally declared disaster is in effect: 9
128128 ‘‘(A) Wages (as defined in section 3121(a)) 10
129129 and taxes imposed under section 3111. 11
130130 ‘‘(B) Unemployment insurance contribu-12
131131 tions. 13
132132 ‘‘(C) Health care costs. 14
133133 ‘‘(D) Rent, lease, or mortgage costs, in-15
134134 cluding property taxes. 16
135135 ‘‘(E) Utilities. 17
136136 ‘‘(5) P
137137 UBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY EX -18
138138 PENSES.—The term ‘public health emergency ex-19
139139 penses’ means amounts described in subparagraphs 20
140140 (A) through (E) of paragraph (4) if paid or incurred 21
141141 in the ordinary course of a trade or business of the 22
142142 eligible business while a public health emergency 23
143143 declaration is in effect. 24
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147147 ‘‘(6) FEDERALLY DECLARED DISASTER .—The 1
148148 term ‘federally declared disaster’ has the meaning 2
149149 given such term by section 165(i)(5). 3
150150 ‘‘(7) P
151151 UBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY DECLARA -4
152152 TION.—The term ‘public health emergency declara-5
153153 tion’ means any declaration of a public health emer-6
154154 gency by the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-7
155155 ices under section 319 of the Public Health Service 8
156156 Act (42 U.S.C. 247d). 9
157157 ‘‘(8) A
158158 CCOUNT BENEFICIARY .—The term ‘ac-10
159159 count beneficiary’ means the eligible business on 11
160160 whose behalf the small business emergency savings 12
161161 account was established. 13
162162 ‘‘(e) T
163163 REATMENT OFACCOUNT.— 14
164164 ‘‘(1) I
165165 N GENERAL.—A small business emer-15
166166 gency savings account is exempt from taxation under 16
167167 this subtitle unless such account has ceased to be a 17
168168 small business emergency savings account. Notwith-18
169169 standing the preceding sentence, any such account is 19
170170 subject to the taxes imposed by section 511 (relating 20
171171 to imposition of tax on unrelated business income of 21
172172 charitable, etc. organizations). 22
173173 ‘‘(2) A
174174 CCOUNT TERMINATIONS .—Rules similar 23
175175 to the rules of paragraphs (2) and (4) of section 24
176176 408(e) shall apply to small business emergency sav-25
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180180 ings accounts, and any amount treated as distrib-1
181181 uted under such rules shall be treated as not used 2
182182 to pay qualified disaster and public health emer-3
183183 gency expenses. 4
184184 ‘‘(f) T
185185 AXTREATMENT OFDISTRIBUTIONS.— 5
186186 ‘‘(1) A
187187 MOUNTS USED FOR QUALIFIED DISASTER 6
188188 AND PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY EXPENSES .—Any 7
189189 amount paid or distributed out of a small business 8
190190 emergency savings account which is used exclusively 9
191191 to pay qualified disaster and public health emer-10
192192 gency expenses of any account beneficiary shall not 11
193193 be includible in gross income. 12
194194 ‘‘(2) I
195195 NCLUSION OF AMOUNTS NOT USED FOR 13
196196 QUALIFIED DISASTER AND PUBLIC HEALTH EMER -14
197197 GENCY EXPENSES.—Any amount paid or distributed 15
198198 out of a small business emergency savings account 16
199199 which is not used exclusively to pay the qualified dis-17
200200 aster and public health emergency expenses of the 18
201201 account beneficiary shall be included in the gross in-19
202202 come of such beneficiary. 20
203203 ‘‘(3) E
204204 XCESS CONTRIBUTIONS RETURNED BE -21
205205 FORE DUE DATE OF RETURN .— 22
206206 ‘‘(A) I
207207 N GENERAL.—If any excess con-23
208208 tribution is contributed for a taxable year to 24
209209 any small business emergency savings account 25
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213213 of an eligible business, paragraph (2) shall not 1
214214 apply to distributions from the small business 2
215215 emergency savings accounts of such eligible 3
216216 business (to the extent such distributions do not 4
217217 exceed the aggregate excess contributions to all 5
218218 such accounts of such eligible business for such 6
219219 year) if— 7
220220 ‘‘(i) such distribution is received by 8
221221 the eligible business on or before the last 9
222222 day prescribed by law (including extensions 10
223223 of time) for filing such eligible business’s 11
224224 return for such taxable year, and 12
225225 ‘‘(ii) such distribution is accompanied 13
226226 by the amount of net income attributable 14
227227 to such excess contribution. 15
228228 Any net income described in clause (ii) shall be 16
229229 included in the gross income of the eligible busi-17
230230 ness for the taxable year in which it is received. 18
231231 ‘‘(B) E
232232 XCESS CONTRIBUTION .—For pur-19
233233 poses of subparagraph (A), the term ‘excess 20
234234 contribution’ means any contribution (other 21
235235 than a rollover contribution described in para-22
236236 graph (5)) which is not deductible under this 23
237237 section. 24
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241241 ‘‘(4) ADDITIONAL TAX ON DISTRIBUTIONS NOT 1
242242 USED FOR QUALIFIED DISASTER AND PUBLIC 2
243243 HEALTH EMERGENCY EXPENSES .— 3
244244 ‘‘(A) I
245245 N GENERAL.—The tax imposed by 4
246246 this chapter on the account beneficiary for any 5
247247 taxable year in which there is a payment or dis-6
248248 tribution from a small business emergency sav-7
249249 ings account of such beneficiary which is includ-8
250250 ible in gross income under paragraph (2) shall 9
251251 be increased by 20 percent of the amount which 10
252252 is so includible. 11
253253 ‘‘(B) E
254254 XCEPTION FOR DISABILITY OR 12
255255 DEATH.—If the eligible business is an indi-13
256256 vidual, subparagraph (A) shall not apply if the 14
257257 payment or distribution is made after the ac-15
258258 count beneficiary becomes disabled within the 16
259259 meaning of section 72(m)(7) or dies. 17
260260 ‘‘(5) R
261261 OLLOVER CONTRIBUTION .—An amount is 18
262262 described in this paragraph as a rollover contribu-19
263263 tion if it meets the requirements of subparagraphs 20
264264 (A) and (B). 21
265265 ‘‘(A) I
266266 N GENERAL.—Paragraph (2) shall 22
267267 not apply to any amount paid or distributed 23
268268 from a small business emergency savings ac-24
269269 count to the account beneficiary to the extent 25
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273273 the amount received is paid into a small busi-1
274274 ness emergency savings account for the benefit 2
275275 of such beneficiary not later than the 60th day 3
276276 after the day on which the beneficiary receives 4
277277 the payment or distribution. 5
278278 ‘‘(B) L
279279 IMITATION.—This paragraph shall 6
280280 not apply to any amount described in subpara-7
281281 graph (A) received by an eligible business from 8
282282 a small business emergency savings account if, 9
283283 at any time during the 1-year period ending on 10
284284 the day of such receipt, such eligible business 11
285285 received any other amount described in sub-12
286286 paragraph (A) from a small business emergency 13
287287 savings account which was not includible in the 14
288288 small business’s gross income because of the 15
289289 application of this paragraph. 16
290290 ‘‘(g) C
291291 OST-OF-LIVINGADJUSTMENT.— 17
292292 ‘‘(1) I
293293 N GENERAL.—In the case of any taxable 18
294294 year beginning in a calendar year after 2023, the 19
295295 $3,000 amount in subsection (d)(3) shall be in-20
296296 creased by an amount equal to— 21
297297 ‘‘(A) such dollar amount, multiplied by 22
298298 ‘‘(B) the cost-of-living adjustment deter-23
299299 mined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar 24
300300 year in which such taxable year begins deter-25
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304304 mined by substituting ‘calendar year 2022’ for 1
305305 ‘calendar year 2016’ in subparagraph (A)(ii) 2
306306 thereof. 3
307307 ‘‘(2) R
308308 OUNDING.—If any increase under para-4
309309 graph (1) is not a multiple of $50, such increase 5
310310 shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of $50. 6
311311 ‘‘(h) S
312312 PECIALRULES.— 7
313313 ‘‘(1) D
314314 ENIAL OF DEDUCTION TO DEPEND -8
315315 ENTS.—No deduction shall be allowed under this 9
316316 section to any individual with respect to whom a de-10
317317 duction under section 151 is allowable to another 11
318318 taxpayer for a taxable year beginning in the cal-12
319319 endar year in which such individual’s taxable year 13
320320 begins. 14
321321 ‘‘(2) T
322322 AXABLE YEAR MUST BE FULL TAXABLE 15
323323 YEAR.—Except in the case of a taxable year closed 16
324324 by reason of the death of an individual who is an eli-17
325325 gible business, no deduction shall be allowed under 18
326326 this section in the case of a taxable year covering a 19
327327 period of less than 12 months. 20
328328 ‘‘(3) C
329329 ERTAIN RULES TO APPLY .—Rules similar 21
330330 to the following rules shall apply for purposes of this 22
331331 section: 23
332332 ‘‘(A) Section 219(d)(2) (relating to no de-24
333333 duction for rollovers). 25
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337337 ‘‘(B) Section 219(f)(3) (relating to time 1
338338 when contributions deemed made). 2
339339 ‘‘(C) Section 219(f)(5) (relating to em-3
340340 ployer payments). 4
341341 ‘‘(D) Section 408(g) (relating to commu-5
342342 nity property laws). 6
343343 ‘‘(E) Section 408(h) (relating to custodial 7
344344 accounts). 8
345345 ‘‘(F) Section 223(f)(7) (relating to transfer 9
346346 of account incident to divorce). 10
347347 ‘‘(G) Section 223(f)(8) (relating to treat-11
348348 ment after death of account beneficiary). 12
349349 ‘‘(4) D
350350 ENIAL OF DOUBLE BENEFIT .—No deduc-13
351351 tion shall be allowed under this chapter for any 14
352352 qualified disaster and public health emergency ex-15
353353 penses with respect to which any payment or dis-16
354354 tribution is excluded from gross income under sub-17
355355 section (f)(1). 18
356356 ‘‘(i) R
357357 EPORTS.—The Secretary may require the trust-19
358358 ee of a small business emergency savings account to make 20
359359 such reports regarding such account to the Secretary and 21
360360 to the account beneficiary with respect to contributions, 22
361361 distributions, the return of excess contributions, and such 23
362362 other matters as the Secretary determines appropriate.’’. 24
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366366 (b) DEDUCTIONALLOWEDWHETHER ORNOTINDI-1
367367 VIDUALITEMIZESOTHERDEDUCTIONS.—Section 62(a) 2
368368 of such Code is amended by inserting after paragraph (21) 3
369369 the following new paragraph: 4
370370 ‘‘(22) S
371371 MALL BUSINESS EMERGENCY SAVINGS 5
372372 ACCOUNTS.—In the case of an individual who is an 6
373373 eligible business, the deduction allowed by section 7
374374 200.’’. 8
375375 (c) T
376376 AX ONEXCESSCONTRIBUTIONS.—Section 4973 9
377377 of such Code (relating to tax on excess contributions to 10
378378 certain tax-favored accounts and annuities) is amended— 11
379379 (1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of subsection 12
380380 (a)(5), by inserting ‘‘or’’ at the end of subsection 13
381381 (a)(6), and by inserting after subsection (a)(6) the 14
382382 following new paragraph: 15
383383 ‘‘(7) a small business emergency savings ac-16
384384 count (within the meaning of section 220(d)),’’; and 17
385385 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub-18
386386 section: 19
387387 ‘‘(i) E
388388 XCESSCONTRIBUTIONS TO SMALLBUSINESS 20
389389 E
390390 MERGENCYSAVINGSACCOUNTS.—For purposes of this 21
391391 section, in the case of small business emergency savings 22
392392 accounts (within the meaning of section 220(d)), the term 23
393393 ‘excess contributions’ means the sum of— 24
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397397 ‘‘(1) the aggregate amount contributed for the 1
398398 taxable year to the accounts (other than a rollover 2
399399 contribution described in section 220(f)(5)) which is 3
400400 not allowable as a deduction under section 220 for 4
401401 such year, and 5
402402 ‘‘(2) the amount determined under this sub-6
403403 section for the preceding taxable year, reduced by 7
404404 the sum of— 8
405405 ‘‘(A) the distributions out of the accounts 9
406406 which were included in gross income under sec-10
407407 tion 220(f)(2), and 11
408408 ‘‘(B) the excess (if any) of— 12
409409 ‘‘(i) the maximum amount allowable 13
410410 as a deduction under section 220(b) for 14
411411 the taxable year, over 15
412412 ‘‘(ii) the amount contributed to the 16
413413 accounts for the taxable year. 17
414414 For purposes of this subsection, any contribu-18
415415 tion which is distributed out of the small busi-19
416416 ness emergency savings account in a distribu-20
417417 tion to which section 220(f)(3) applies shall be 21
418418 treated as an amount not contributed.’’. 22
419419 (d) F
420420 AILURETOPROVIDEREPORTS ON SMALL 23
421421 B
422422 USINESSEMERGENCY SAVINGSACCOUNTS.—Section 24
423423 6693(a)(2) of such Code is amended by redesignating sub-25
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427427 paragraphs (D), (E), and (F) as subparagraphs (E), (F), 1
428428 and (G), respectively, and by inserting after subparagraph 2
429429 (C) the following new subparagraph: 3
430430 ‘‘(D) section 220(i) (relating to small busi-4
431431 ness emergency savings accounts),’’. 5
432432 (e) C
433433 LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 6
434434 for part VI of subchapter B of chapter 1 of such Code 7
435435 is amended by adding at the end the following: 8
436436 ‘‘Sec. 200. Small business emergency savings accounts.’’.
437437 (f) EFFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 9
438438 this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 10
439439 December 31, 2022. 11
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