Making Work Pay Tax Credit Extension Act

Making Work Pay Tax Credit Extension Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2011 the refundable tax credit allowed for the lesser of 6.2% of earned income or $400 (making work pay tax credit).

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3118 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3118

    To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 1-year 
                extension of the making work pay credit.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 7, 2009

    Mr. Murphy of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 1-year 
                extension of the making work pay credit.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Making Work Pay Tax Credit Extension 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF MAKING WORK PAY CREDIT.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (e) of section 36A of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking ``December 31, 2010'' and 
inserting ``December 31, 2011''.
    (b) Treatment of Possessions.--Paragraph (1) of section 1001(b) of 
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act of 2009 is amended by 
striking ``2009 and 2010'' both places it appears in subparagraphs (A) 
and (B) and inserting ``2009, 2010, and 2011''.
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