Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act

To affirm the religious freedom of taxpayers who are conscientiously opposed to participation in war, to provide that the income, estate, or gift tax payments of such taxpayers be used for nonmilitary purposes, to create the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund to receive such tax payments, to improve revenue collection, and for other purposes.

4/18/2007--Introduced.
Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish in the Treasury the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund for the deposit of income, gift, and estate taxes paid by or on behalf of taxpayers:
(1) who are designated conscientious objectors opposed to participation in war in any form based upon their deeply held moral, ethical, or religious beliefs or training (within the meaning of the Military Selective Service Act); and
(2) who have certified their beliefs in writing to the Secretary.
Requires that:
(1) amounts deposited in the Fund be allocated annually to any appropriation not for a military purpose;
(2) the Secretary report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on the total amount transferred into the Fund during the preceding fiscal year and the purposes for which such amount was allocated; and
(3) the privacy of individuals using the Fund be protected. Expresses the sense of Congress that any revenue increase resulting from the creation of the Fund be allocated in a manner consistent with its purposes.


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Sponsor

• Rep. John Lewis [D, GA-5]
• and 43 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Tammy Baldwin [D, WI-2]
  • Rep. Corrine Brown [D, FL-3]
  • Julia Carson
  • Rep. Donna Christensen [D, VI-0]
  • Rep. William Clay [D, MO-1]
  • Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D, MO-5]
  • Rep. John Conyers [D, MI-14]
  • Rep. Elijah Cummings [D, MD-7]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Rep. Peter DeFazio [D, OR-4]
  • Rep. William Delahunt [D, MA-10]
  • Rep. Keith Ellison [D, MN-5]
  • Rep. Anna Eshoo [D, CA-14]
  • Rep. Sam Farr [D, CA-17]
  • Rep. Chaka Fattah [D, PA-2]
  • Rep. Barney Frank [D, MA-4]
  • Rep. Maurice Hinchey [D, NY-22]
  • Rep. Rush Holt [D, NJ-12]
  • Rep. Michael Honda [D, CA-15]
  • Rep. Jesse Jackson [D, IL-2]
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
  • Rep. Eddie Johnson [D, TX-30]
  • Rep. Henry Johnson [D, GA-4]
  • Rep. Paul Kanjorski [D, PA-11]
  • Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick [D, MI-13]
  • Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D, OH-10]
  • Rep. Barbara Lee [D, CA-9]
  • Rep. James McDermott [D, WA-7]
  • Rep. James McGovern [D, MA-3]
  • Rep. Jerry Moran [R, KS-1]
  • Rep. Eleanor Norton [D, DC-0]
  • Rep. James Oberstar [D, MN-8]
  • Rep. Ronald Paul [R, TX-14]
  • Rep. Donald Payne [D, NJ-10]
  • Rep. Bobby Rush [D, IL-1]
  • Rep. Linda Sánchez [D, CA-39]
  • Rep. José Serrano [D, NY-16]
  • Rep. Fortney Stark [D, CA-13]
  • Rep. Edolphus Towns [D, NY-10]
  • Rep. Nydia Velázquez [D, NY-12]
  • Rep. Melvin Watt [D, NC-12]
  • Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D, CA-6]
  • Albert Wynn
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Committees

• House Ways and Means

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.1921

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April 18, 2007

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• Introduced on Apr 18, 2007.
• Apr 18, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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• Taxation
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• Armed forces
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• Civil liberties
• Congress
• Congressional Record
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Conscientious objectors
• Defense budgets
• Defense economics
• Defense policy
• Estate tax
• Gift tax
• Government information
• Government paperwork
• Government trust funds
• Income tax
• Peace
• Religion
• Religious liberty
• Right of privacy
• Tax administration
• Tax returns
• War and religion

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April 27, 2008 NATIONAL DEBT, TIAHRT'S TANKER OUTRAGE, OPPOSING WAR

Because of our commitment to nonviolence and the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act (HR 1921), we cannot in good conscience offer our lives or our ...

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April 13, 2008 Direct money to peaceful measures

Initiated every year since 1972, but never passed (HR 1921). It proposes to "affirm the freedom of taxpayers who are conscientiously opposed to ...

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December 06, 2008 The Modern Left: The literal cost of war

The National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund (NCPTF), based in Washington, D.C., is a not-for-profit organization which advocates for passage of the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill (currently H.R. 1921). When enacted, this law will ...

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July 21, 2008 Portland Couple Has Refused to Pay Taxes for 30 Years to Protest ...

H.R.1921 Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill The bill is to create a fund allowing conscientious objectors ,for religious or moral grounds,to pay thier full tax liability into a fund dedicated to non military spending. ...

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July 06, 2008 July 4, 2008 — Peace is Patriotic

... to Interim Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting requesting that Philadelphia Yearly Meeting send a letter to all members of Congress asking for their support of the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill (currently HR 1921). ...

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