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Middle Class Tax Cut Act of 2011 - Reduces employment tax rates in calendar year 2012 (payroll tax holiday period) for both employers and employees to 3.1%. Limits the reduction for employers to the first $5 million of wages paid by the employer in 2012.
Reduces the tax rate on the first $5 million of net earning of a self-employed taxpayer.
Allows nongovernmental employers a tax credit for payroll increases in the last quarter of 2011 and in 2012.
Appropriates funds to the social security trust funds to compensate for any revenue loss to such funds from the reduction in rates and the tax credit allowed by this Act.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose on individual taxpayers in taxable years beginning after 2012 an additional tax equal to 3.25% of so much of their modified adjusted gross income as exceeds $1 million. Defines "modified adjusted gross income" as adjusted gross income reduced by any deduction allowed for investment interest. Provides for an inflation adjustment to the $1 million threshold amount for taxable years beginning after 2013.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing S. 1917 as introduced in Senate on Nov 28, 2011. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Senate Dec 1, 2011
Motion to Proceed to Consider S. 1917
Motion to Proceed Rejected
51 Yea 49 Nay
Party-line vote 3 of 100 voting members broke with their own party: 2 Democrats, 1 Republican.
DemocratsIndependentsOtherRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
100 members on this roll call, from the official Senate 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 S. 1917 and vote against it. 5 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named S. 1917 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
62 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.