Connect America Now Act or the CAN Act This bill allows an exclusion from gross income, for income tax purposes, of gain from the sale or exchange of the entire interest in a wholly-owned rural incumbent local exchange carrier. A rural incumbent local exchange carrier is a carrier that serves an area where it is required to provide communications services to any customer regardless of cost, and an area other than an urbanized area with not fewer than 50,000 periople, and a core where there are not fewer than 1,000 people per square mile. The bill requires recapture of tax for income from the sale or exchange of stock in a carrier not held for at least one year. The bill allows an investment tax credit for 30% of expenditures to purchase, maintain, or improve property to provide voice telephone service or broadband internet access in rural empowerment zones. The bill increases the volume cap for private activity bonds and allows the use of bond proceeds for infrastructure for broadband internet access service.
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Timeline
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures.
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures.
Taxation
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologiesBusiness investment and capitalCapital gains taxIncome tax creditsIncome tax exclusionInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaRural conditions and developmentTelephone and wireless communication
CAN Act
USA116th CongressHR-7857| House
| Updated: 7/30/2020
Connect America Now Act or the CAN Act This bill allows an exclusion from gross income, for income tax purposes, of gain from the sale or exchange of the entire interest in a wholly-owned rural incumbent local exchange carrier. A rural incumbent local exchange carrier is a carrier that serves an area where it is required to provide communications services to any customer regardless of cost, and an area other than an urbanized area with not fewer than 50,000 periople, and a core where there are not fewer than 1,000 people per square mile. The bill requires recapture of tax for income from the sale or exchange of stock in a carrier not held for at least one year. The bill allows an investment tax credit for 30% of expenditures to purchase, maintain, or improve property to provide voice telephone service or broadband internet access in rural empowerment zones. The bill increases the volume cap for private activity bonds and allows the use of bond proceeds for infrastructure for broadband internet access service.
Broadcasting, cable, digital technologiesBusiness investment and capitalCapital gains taxIncome tax creditsIncome tax exclusionInternet and video servicesInternet, web applications, social mediaRural conditions and developmentTelephone and wireless communication