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(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on April 10, 2012. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Small Business Tax Cut Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a qualified small business a tax deduction equal to 20% of the lesser of qualified domestic business income or taxable income. Defines: (1) "qualified small business" as any employer engaged in a trade or business if such employer had fewer than 500 full-time employees in either 2010 or 2011; and (2) "qualified domestic business income" as an amount equal to the excess (if any) of the taxpayer's domestic business gross receipts (i.e., gross receipts effectively connected with a trade or business within the United States) for a taxable year over the sum of the cost of goods sold allocable to such receipts and other expenses, losses, or deductions properly allocable to such receipts.
Limits the amount of such deduction to 50% of the greater of: (1) the taxpayer's W-2 wages (payroll) paid to non-owners of the taxpayer's business; or (2) the sum of the W-2 wages paid to individuals who are non-owner family members of direct owners (i.e., stockholders of the business), plus any W-2 wages paid to direct owners who have an ownership interest in the business of 10% or less.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to carry out this Act, including regulations to prevent a taxpayer that reorganizes from being treated as a qualified small business if such taxpayer would not have been treated as a qualified small business prior to such reorganization.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 9 as passed House amended on Apr 19, 2012. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Apr 19, 2012Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveApr 19, 2012
House Apr 19, 2012 · the primary vote
Small Business Tax Cut Act
Passed
235 Yea 173 Nay 22 not voting · 1 present
Party-line vote 28 of 408 voting members broke with their own party: 18 Democrats, 10 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 9 and vote against it. 0 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 9 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
118 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.