The Obama administration said Thursday that it would veto H.R. 4718, a bill passed by the House Friday that makes permanent the extension of bonus depreciation, which allows all businesses to immediately deduct 50% of investment in equipment and software.
The administration said that it "strongly opposes" House passage of H.R. 4718 to permanently extend bonus depreciation rules that allow corporations to speed up deductions for certain investments and thereby delay tax payments, as the provision was enacted in 2009 "to provide short-term stimulus to the economy, and it was never intended to be a permanent corporate giveaway."
Moreover, the administration said that the bill includes "no offsets and would add $287 billion to the deficit over the next 10 years, wiping out more than one-third of the deficit reduction achieved by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2013."
