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Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the additional 50% depreciation allowance (bonus depreciation) for qualified property placed in service after December 31, 2013. Modifies the definition of "qualified property" to include qualified retail improvement property. Increases by $8,000 (with an annual inflation adjustment after 2014) the maximum allowable depreciation deduction for a passenger automobile (i.e., any 4-wheeled vehicle which is manufactured primarily for use on public streets, roads, and highways and is rated at 6,000 pounds unloaded gross vehicle weight or less).
Makes permanent, for taxable years ending after December 31, 2013, the election to increase the alternative minimum tax (AMT) credit limitation in lieu of bonus depreciation.
Allows an additional deprecation allowance for a tree or vine bearing fruits or nuts, in the taxable year in which the tree or vine is planted, or grafted to a plant, in the ordinary course of the taxpayer's farming business. Makes such provision applicable to trees and vines planted or grafted after December 31, 2013.
Prohibits the entry of the budgetary effects of this Act on any PAYGO (pay-as-you-go) scorecard.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 4718 as passed House amended on Jul 11, 2014. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Jul 11, 2014Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveJul 11, 2014
House Jul 11, 2014 · the primary vote
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify and make permanent bonus depreciation
Passed
258 Yea 160 Nay 14 not voting
Party-line vote 36 of 418 voting members broke with their own party: 34 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
432 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. 4718 and vote against it. 18 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 4718 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
404 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.