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Beltway Banter: The quick, initial read regarding U.S. Representative Charles Rangel's (D-New York) hedge fund/buy-out firm tax bill introduced Thursday is that the measure, as composed, would produce a certain veto from President Bush, but that the Bush Administration may be willing to work on a revised Rangel measure.

A revised bill, provided it successfully snakes its way through the U.S. Senate, may be legislation President Bush can work with, as a way to solve the alternate minimum tax issue. Designed to prevent wealthy Americans from paying no tax via tax shelters, the AMT -- due to inflation -- applies to a larger number of upper-middle-income Americans each year. Without an AMT patch, 21 million households will be obligated to pay the alternate minimum tax.

U.S. Rep. Rangel's measure would more than double the tax rate on carried interest, the executive compensation at buy-out and venture-capital firms, and would require hedge-fund managers to pay tax on income they defer in offshore accounts, among other bill features.

U.S. Rep. Rangel calls his bill "the mother of all tax reforms." Republican leaders disagree. In a statement, they called the bill, "the mother of all tax hikes" and assert that the bill would raise taxes by $1 trillion over a 10-year span, Reuters reported. Rep. Rangel countered by saying that U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson had recommended the business tax changes.

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