Tax Bill Passes House, Heads to Senate

This article is reproduced with permission from Spidell Publishing, Inc.The tax provisions of the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA; H.R. 1), which passed the House of Representatives on May 22, 2025, are essentially the same as the version of the bill that was released on Monday, May 12, 2025. Two significant changes that were made in the last-minute tax amendments to the OBBBA version that the House passed include:​​​​​

• An increase in the SALT itemized deduction limitation to $40,000 ($20,000 for married taxpayers filing separately) and an increase in the modified adjusted gross income phaseout threshold to $500,000 ($250,000 MFS); and
• Modifications to the excess business loss rules under IRC §461(l) that create a separate category of carryovers for excess business losses instead of treating them as net operating losses.
• The bill passed by the House did not delete the modifications to the SALT limitation that effectively remove the benefits of state passthrough entity elective tax laws.

The final version of the bill, without the last-minute amendments, is available at: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/textThe supplemental amendments that were a part of the final bill are available at: https://rules.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/rules.house.gov/files/documents/rulesreport05212025_.pdfThis is just the next step in the evolution of this legislation, and we will continue to keep you posted as news develops on these pending provisions.