Joint Tax Committee Publishes Bluebook: General Explanation Of Tax Legislation Enacted In The 117th Congress

The Joint Committee on Taxation has released General Explanation of Tax Legislation Enacted in the 116th Congress (JCS-1-23) (Dec. 21, 2023) (560 pages):

This document, prepared by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation in consultation with the staffs of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance, provides an explanation of certain tax legislation enacted in the 117th Congress.

For each provision, this document includes a description of present law, an explanation of the provision, and the effective date. Present law describes the law in effect immediately before enactment of the provision and does not reflect changes to the law made by the enacting legislation or by subsequent legislation. For a bill with a Committee report (or, in the absence of one, a contemporaneous technical explanation prepared and published by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation), this document is based on the language of the report (or explanation). This document follows the chronological order of the tax legislation as signed into law.

Section references are to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the ‘‘Code’’), unless otherwise stated. ...

The Appendix provides the estimated budget effects of tax legislation described in this document.

The first footnote in each Part gives the legislative history of the Act explained in that Part.