ESA Action Alert (issued to ESA members on Nov. 9 and again today) Contact your Senators and Representative today in support of keeping the graduate student teaching and research assistants tax exemption for tuition waivers. The House of Representatives and Senate each passed its own versions of a tax reform bill. Now, both the House and Senate will meet in conference to working out differences in the bills and draft a final bill. Once this is done, the House and Senate will vote again on the final legislation. While the Senate bill did not seek to tax tuition waivers, the House version of the bill, The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) legislation would repeal Sec. 117 (d)(5), which provides graduate student teaching and research assistants a tax exemption for tuition waivers. We ask you to contact your Members of Congress today and urge them to keep the tax exemption for tuition waivers. Find your Senator by selecting your state (https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/ ), and your Representative by entering your zip code (https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative) and follow instructions on their website on how to contact them. You may call them rather than write.
Read the letter ESA signed and sent to the Hill about the tax bill, https://www.esa.org/esa/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017_11_15-Multisociety-Letter_Tax-Reform.pdf Alison Mize Director of Public Affairs Ecological Society of America 1990 M Street NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036 www.esa.org<http://www.esa.org> ali...@esa.org<mailto:ali...@esa.org> 703.625.3628 (cell) 202.833.8773 ext. 205 (office)
