Emergency Savings Accounts Act of 2021 This bill allows an individual taxpayer occupying a residence a deduction from gross income for up to $5,000 of amounts paid into such taxpayer's emergency savings account. The bill defines emergency savings account as an account established exclusively to pay the qualified disaster and public health emergency expenses of the account beneficiary. The bill defines qualified disaster and public health emergency expenses as disaster mitigation expenses, disaster recovery expenses, public health emergency expenses, and unemployment-related expenses.
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Taxation
Bank accounts, deposits, capitalChild care and developmentDisaster relief and insuranceEmergency medical services and trauma careHealth care costs and insuranceHousing finance and home ownershipIncome tax deductionsIncome tax exclusionInfectious and parasitic diseasesInflation and pricesLandlord and tenantProperty taxPublic utilities and utility ratesUnemployment
Emergency Savings Accounts Act of 2021
USA117th CongressHR-1449| House
| Updated: 3/1/2021
Emergency Savings Accounts Act of 2021 This bill allows an individual taxpayer occupying a residence a deduction from gross income for up to $5,000 of amounts paid into such taxpayer's emergency savings account. The bill defines emergency savings account as an account established exclusively to pay the qualified disaster and public health emergency expenses of the account beneficiary. The bill defines qualified disaster and public health emergency expenses as disaster mitigation expenses, disaster recovery expenses, public health emergency expenses, and unemployment-related expenses.
Bank accounts, deposits, capitalChild care and developmentDisaster relief and insuranceEmergency medical services and trauma careHealth care costs and insuranceHousing finance and home ownershipIncome tax deductionsIncome tax exclusionInfectious and parasitic diseasesInflation and pricesLandlord and tenantProperty taxPublic utilities and utility ratesUnemployment