Excerpt from General Explanation of the Tax Reform Act of 1969, H. R. 13270, 91st Congress, Public Law 91-172: December 3, 1970 The Tax Reform Act of 1969 (hr. 13270) is a substantive and com prehensive reform of the income tax laws. As the House and Senate Committee Reports suggest, there was no prior tax reform bill of equal substantive scope. The congressional consideration of this Act lasted eleven months and one day. The schedule of the various actions by the committees on the bill was as follows: January 29, 1969: Announcement by the House Committee on Ways and Means of its hearings on tax reform. February 18, 1969 to April 24, 1969 Hearings before the House Committee on Ways and Means on tax reform. April 29, 1969 to August 2, 1969: Markup of the bill by the House Committee on Ways and Means. August 5, 1969 Bill reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means. August 6, 1969: Obtained a closed rule on the bill from the House Committee on Rules. August 6 and 7, 1969: Bill considered by the House and passed by a vote of 394 to 30. September 4, 1969 to October 8, 1969: Hearings before the Sen ate Committee oh Finance on tax reform. October 9, 1969 to October 31, 1969: Markup of the bill by the Senate Committee on Finance. November 21, 1969: Bill reported by the Senate Committee on Finance. November 24, 1969 to December 11, 1969 Bill considered by the Senate and passed by a vote of 69 to 22. December 15, 1969 to December 19, 1969: Meeting of the con ference committee of the House and Senate on the Tax Reform Bill of 1969. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.