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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House Resolution 125 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 1, by striking lines 3 through 27 and 1 3 inserting the following: 1 4 "A House Resolution requesting the United States 1 5 Congress to enact legislation clarifying that 1 6 conservation reserve payments are not subject to 1 7 self-employment social security taxes. 1 8 WHEREAS, many family farmers in Iowa participate in 1 9 the federal conservation reserve program and rely on 1 10 payments from this program to continue to operate 1 11 their family farms; and 1 12 WHEREAS, requiring family farmers in Iowa to remit 1 13 self-employment social security taxes on conservation 1 14 reserve payments would constitute an undue hardship on 1 15 family farmers in Iowa and work to defeat one of the 1 16 intended purposes of the conservation reserve program, 1 17 which is to preserve the family farm; and 1 18 WHEREAS, United States Representative Moran of 1 19 Kansas and United States Representative Pomeroy of 1 20 North Dakota have introduced legislation to clarify 1 21 that farmers are not required to pay self-employment 1 22 social security taxes on conservation reserve 1 23 payments; NOW THEREFORE, 1 24 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1 25 That the Iowa House of Representatives urges the 1 26 Congress of the United States to enact H.R. 4064, 1 27 introduced by Representatives Moran of Kansas and 1 28 Representative Pomeroy of North Dakota, that will 1 29 clarify the tax treatment of conservation reserve 1 30 payments, exempting such payments from self-employment 1 31 social security taxes." 1 32 1 33 1 34 1 35 WEIGEL of Chickasaw 1 36 HR 125.501 78 1 37 jm/as
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