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Alliance for Retired Americans
Tax Fairness.
Rep. McDermott, D-WA, offered a motion to instruct House-Senate conferees to the tax bill that the final bill should include provisions eliminating tax loopholes for oil companies.
The result would be increased revenues as well as
more fairness in the tax code. The motion failed.BIPAC
H.R.4297, On Motion to Instruct Conferees.
This motion to instruct tax conferees would have changed standard accounting methods by which corporations treat income under current statutes.