lostatsea
10-21-2009, 02:11 PM
I saw on the net that there is a Bill SB2099 passed by the Senate which states that all gun owners must now report their ownership on their 2009, 1040 Federal Tax form and that taxpayers will be charged a tax fee of $50 gun.
I did a search at the US Senate site and it seems to be not true. Does anyone have any other information on this.
http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/SB2099.shtml
Is it true that . . . Senate Bill SB-2099 will require owners of firearms to pay a $50 charge per gun and list each gun on their federal tax form?
http://www.senate.gov/resources/graphic/horiz_content_break.gif
The answer is no. This Internet rumor states that SB-2099 is legislation currently being considered by the Senate. The bill supposedly requires owners of firearms to list on their 1040 tax return all guns they own and then pay a $50 charge per firearm. There is no such legislation by this name in the 111th Congress.
The facts:
The last bill given the number S. 2099 (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:s2099:) was in the 105th Congress. This bill dealt with federal sentencing guidelines for counterfeiting offenses.
Legislation that the Senate is currently working on will be listed on the Active Legislation (http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/b_three_sections_with_teasers/active_leg_page.htm) page or can be searched for on Thomas (http://thomas.loc.gov/). For more information about the legislative process or finding bills, please see the Legislation VRD page (http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Legislation_and_the_Legislative_Process_vrd.htm).
I did a search at the US Senate site and it seems to be not true. Does anyone have any other information on this.
http://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/SB2099.shtml
Is it true that . . . Senate Bill SB-2099 will require owners of firearms to pay a $50 charge per gun and list each gun on their federal tax form?
http://www.senate.gov/resources/graphic/horiz_content_break.gif
The answer is no. This Internet rumor states that SB-2099 is legislation currently being considered by the Senate. The bill supposedly requires owners of firearms to list on their 1040 tax return all guns they own and then pay a $50 charge per firearm. There is no such legislation by this name in the 111th Congress.
The facts:
The last bill given the number S. 2099 (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:s2099:) was in the 105th Congress. This bill dealt with federal sentencing guidelines for counterfeiting offenses.
Legislation that the Senate is currently working on will be listed on the Active Legislation (http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/b_three_sections_with_teasers/active_leg_page.htm) page or can be searched for on Thomas (http://thomas.loc.gov/). For more information about the legislative process or finding bills, please see the Legislation VRD page (http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Legislation_and_the_Legislative_Process_vrd.htm).