Phantom Tax Reform: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 4923 ... June 12, 1984, Volume 4

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Page 118 - Islands engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers. Our chief objective is to serve the public interest by seeking to improve the quality and effectiveness of public regulation in America.
Page 76 - The objective of the credit is to reduce the net cost of acquiring new equipment; this will have the effect of increasing the earnings of new facilities over their productive lives and increasing the profitability of productive investment.
Page 92 - Expenditures by public utilities in connection with business activities subject to public regulation of rates would generally not be eligible for the credit. This rule would exclude electric, gas, water, telephone, and similar public utility corporations. Investments by these regulated monopoly industries are largely governed by determined public requirements and are subject to regulated consumer service charges designed to provide a prescribed after-tax rate of return on investment.
Page 302 - The Future of Electric Power in America: Economic Supply for Economic Growth (Washington, DC: 1983).
Page 144 - In calculating whether the 5-cent fare will yield a proper return, it is necessary to deduct from gross revenue the expenses and charges; and all taxes which would be payable if a fair return were earned, are appropriate deductions. There is no difference in this respect between state and Federal taxes or between income taxes and others. But the fact that it is the Federal corporate income tax for which deduction is made must be taken into consideration in determining what rate of return shall be...
Page 72 - The faster tax writeoff would increase available working capital and materially aid growing businesses in the financing of their expansion.
Page 72 - Policy in the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. I would like to thank you for the invitation to appear before you today to discuss the economic and budgetary effects of current tax proposals.
Page 101 - ... (B) Rate base reduction. If the base to which the taxpayer's rate of return for ratemaking purposes is applied is reduced by reason of any portion of the credit allowable by section 38 (determined without regard to this subsection) . (3) Special rule for immediate flow-through in certain cases.
Page 46 - More liberal depreciation allowances are anticipated to have far-reaching economic effects. The incentives resulting from the changes are well timed to help maintain the present high level of investment in plant and equipment.
Page 47 - Senate that the purpose of the credit for investment in certain depreciable property, in the case of both regulated and nonregulated industries, is to encourage modernization and expansion of the Nation's productive facilities and to improve its economic potential by reducing the net cost of acquiring new equipment, thereby increasing the earnings of new facilities over their productive lives.

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