It currently provides a 9% tax deduction from net income for businesses engaged in "qualified production activities" in the U.S. Those activities include manufacturing a product, selling, leasing or licensing it, and engineering and software activities related to that production.

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One nice thing about the aid calculators is that they allow a deduction from income for income taxes, including federal tax.

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About 40% of that revenue would be a result of not extending the 2001-03 tax cuts for high-income households and another 30% would come from the deduction cap (so you could wipe that off the books already).

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