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WASHINGTON – Reps. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and Don Beyer (VA-08), both members of the House Ways and Means Committee, have introduced the Ensuring Nationwide Access to Better Life Experience (ENABLE) Act bipartisan legislation aimed at helping individuals with disabilities save for their futures by permanently extending key tax provisions set to expire in 2025.
WASHINGTON –Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) has reintroduced the Improve and Enhance the Work Opportunity Tax Credit Act to build the U.S. workforce and help connect individuals to good jobs. The bill will strengthen the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), which has a proven track record of helping disadvantaged individuals secure employment.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Lloyd Smucker (PA-11), a senior member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has re-introduced the Main Street Tax Certainty Act, legislation which would permanently extend Section 199A of the Internal Revenue Code, which is slated to expire at the end of this year.
Washington—Legislation introduced by Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) to aid foster children, families, and child welfare agencies (CWAs) was approved by the House of Representatives. Rep. Smucker’s legislation was included in the comprehensive and bipartisan Supporting America’s Children and Families Act (H.R.
WASHINGTON– Reps. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and Don Beyer (VA-08), members of the Ways and Means Committee, announce jointly-introducing the Ensuring Nationwide Access to Better Life Experience (ENABLE) Act (H.R. 9614). This legislation helps individuals with disabilities save for their futures by permanently extending three provisions of the tax code which expire in 2025.
WASHINGTON– Legislation introduced by Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) to create a pilot program to supercharge investment in career and technical training programs received approval by the Ways and Means Committee and now goes to the House of Representatives for consideration.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) today shared a new study from Ernst and Young (EY) highlighting the economic activity supported by their small and family-owned business tax deduction. The Section 199A deduction provides a 20 percent deduction for pass-through businesses, allowing these businesses to reinvest their hard-earned capital, increase wages, and hire more employees.
New Freedom, PA – Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11), a member of the tax-writing Committee on Ways and Means held a roundtable in southern York County to discuss tax policies impacting small businesses in Pennsylvania’s 11th District.
Washington—Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) and twenty-five colleagues have written a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expressing concern about the impact of the proposed Clean Power Plan 2.0 on the PJM Interconnection.
This editorial was first published in the Washington Times on June 5, 2024.
The entrepreneurial spirit is foundational to the American identity. Millions of Americans follow their passions every day as small business owners in our nation’s free enterprise system which has created more prosperity than any other economic system in the history of the world.