To: Health Freedom,Codex Issues
Subject: Dietary Supplement Tax Fairness Act of 2001
From: John Hammell jham@iahf.com
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 20:47:37 -0400
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IAHF List: Please call your Senators and ask them to cosponsor S 1330 IS, the short title is Dietary Supplement Tax Fairness Act of 2001. This bill was introduced by Senators Hatch and Harkin on August 2, and would provide for the IRS to allow tax exempt status for any dietary supplements that you buy so you can write them off just like medications. Ironically, I first learned of this bill while monitoring the Quackwatch website, and feel that we must work extra hard in support of it especially since they strongly oppose it! Please therefor call your Senators today via the Capital Switchboard at 202-225-3121 and if you aren't sure of the name of your Senators give them your zip code and they can look them up. All you have to say to the person who answers is that you are a constituent and that you would like for the Senator to Cosponsor S 1330 IS: Dietary Supplement Tax Fairness Act of 2001 because you would like to write off all expenses for vitamins.
Actually, IAHF doesn't recommend that ANYONE pay taxes, but some do anyway I realize, sigh......
Short Title: S 1330 IS: Dietary Supplement Tax Fairness Act of 2001
Full Title:
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that amounts paid for
foods for special dietary use, dietary supplements, or medical foods shall
be treated as medical expenses. (Introduced in the Senate)
S 1330 IS
107th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1330
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that amounts paid for
foods for special dietary use, dietary supplements, or medical foods shall
be treated as medical expenses.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
August 2, 2001
Mr. HARKIN (for himself and Mr. HATCH) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
A BILL
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that amounts paid
for foods for special dietary use, dietary supplements, or medical foods
shall be treated as medical expenses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act shall be known as the `Dietary Supplement Tax Fairness Act
of 2001 '.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that--
(1) the inclusion of foods for special dietary use, dietary
supplements, and medical foods in the deduction for medical expenses does
not subject such items to regulation as drugs,
(2) the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 treats such items as
allowable for the medical expense deduction, but only if such items are
prescribed drugs,
(3) such items have been shown through research and historical
use to be a valuable benefit to human health, in particular disease
prevention and overall good health, and
(4) children with inborn errors of metabolism, metabolic
disorders, and autism, and all individuals with diabetes, autoimmune
disorders, and chronic inflammatory conditions, frequently require daily
dietary interventions as well as medical interventions to manage their
conditions and such dietary interventions often become a significant
economic burden on such individuals.
SEC. 3. AMOUNTS PAID FOR FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USE, DIETARY
SUPPLEMENTS, OR MEDICAL FOODS TREATED AS MEDICAL EXPENSES.
(a) IN GENERAL- Paragraph (1) of section 213(d) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to medical, dental, etc., expenses) is
amended by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as subparagraphs (D)
and (E), respectively, and by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following
new subparagraph:
`(C) for foods for special dietary use, dietary
supplements
(as defined in section 201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ),
and medical foods,'.
(b) SPECIAL RULE FOR INSURANCE COVERING FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY
USE, DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS, AND MEDICAL FOODS- Subsection (d) of section 213
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to medical, dental, etc.,
expenses) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
`(12) SPECIAL RULE FOR INSURANCE COVERING FOODS FOR SPECIAL
DIETARY USE, DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS, AND
MEDICAL FOODS- Amounts paid for insurance covering foods and
supplements referred to in paragraph (1)(C) shall be treated as described
in
paragraph (1)(E) only if such foods and supplements comply with
applicable good manufacturing practices prescribed by the Food and Drug
Administration or with other comparable standards.'.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS-
(1) Subparagraph (E) of section 213(d)(1) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as redesignated by subsection (a), is amended by
striking
`subparagraphs (A) and (B)' and inserting `subparagraphs (A),
(B), and (C)'.
(2) The last sentence of section 213(d)(1) of such Code is
amended by striking `subparagraph (D)' and inserting `subparagraph (E)'.
(3) Paragraph (6) of section 213(d) of such Code is amended--
(A) by striking `and (C)' and inserting `(C), and (D)',
and
(B) by striking `paragraph (1)(D)' in subparagraph (A) and
inserting `paragraph (1)(E)'.
(4) Paragraph (7) of section 213(d) of such Code is amended by
striking `and (C)' and inserting `(C), and (D)'.
(5) Sections 72(t)(2)(D)(i)(III) and 7702B(a)(4) of such Code
are each amended by striking `section 213(d)(1)(D)' and inserting `section
213(d)(1)(E)'.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE- The amendments made by this section shall apply
to taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act .