Dave Camp: “The underlying bill that we're talking about here today which repeals the 3 percent across-the-board rule is cosponsored…”

“The underlying bill that we're talking about here today which repeals the 3 percent across-the-board rule is cosponsored by two-thirds of this House. This bill has been endorsed by the President of the United States as is. And when the current minority was in the majority, in the stimulus bill they offered this exact legislation, full repeal, without any complications. And then when the final version came over, it was full repeal for 1 year without any changes or complications. I obviously am in strong opposition to this motion to recommit. Then we get the analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation which says, in typical understatement from the joint committee: Your proposal poses some administrative difficulties. Some? The burden is going to be on State and local governments to figure out which contractors are or are not delinquent. And either there's a violation of taxpayer privacy, which I don't think anybody in this House would support, a violation of rule 6103, or very complex procedures are going to have to be put in place for government to figure out which contractors are in compliance and which aren't. As the Joint Committee on Taxation goes on to say: The IRS would need to build the infrastructure to handle the volume of requests from State and local government entities. Implementation difficulties limit somewhat the revenue gain from withholding on State and local governments. {time} 1110 This is more complication in the Tax Code.…”