Statement on Tax Extenders

Dec 3, 2014 Issues: Climate Change, Energy, Environment

Today, the House of Representative passed H.R. 5771, the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014, a bill to temporarily extend a number of expired and soon-to-expire tax provisions. Following passage, members of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) released the following statement:

“One year ago, SEEC Leadership sent a letter to Ways and Means Committee Chairman David Camp urging a permanent or long-term extension of several clean energy tax incentives that were about to expire.

Today’s short-term, mostly retroactive extension of many of these tax provisions is the absolute minimum necessary. Without a longer-term extension, at least through 2015, businesses, workers, and investors will again be forced to deal with the uncertainty that these types of halt-then-hurry policies create.

As soon as many of the extensions contained in H.R. 5771 expire, a new session of Congress will also begin. We hope that Republican Leadership–in acknowledgement of the need to provide certainty to American families and businesses–take up these clean energy incentives in 2015 without delay.”