Finance, investment and tax-related legislation

Congressional spending bills are expected to permanently repeal the “Cadillac tax” and other taxes funding the Affordable Care Act, raise the tobacco purchasing age to 21, and extend the U.S. Export-Import Bank for seven years, according to a senior House Democratic aide familiar with the talks.

Legislation that would provide big deductions for taxpayers with high state and local tax bills is gathering momentum in the House this week, but it’s headed into a brick wall in the Senate.

House Democrats are making a last-ditch bid to reverse the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions before year’s end. But they’ll likely need to renew their efforts in 2020 — or beyond — because the legislation has no chance of becoming law this year.

The legislation from the House Judiciary Committee would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and reassess pot convictions.

The GREEN Act aims to deal with climate change by offering a range of tax incentives for use of renewable energy.

Democratic representatives are working on legislation that would nearly double the top individual U.S. tax rate on the highest incomes.

The bill would raise the federal corporate income tax rate on companies that pay their CEO more than 50 times as much as their average employee.

Three senators have reintroduced a bill that would exempt small broker-dealers from the expanded audit requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and reinstate looser auditing requirements.

With two of the leading presidential candidates competing to promote sweeping tax hikes on the ultra-wealthy, two other Democrats are advancing a more modest surtax on high incomes that supporters say has a better chance of actually becoming law.

The ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee wants to create two new tax incentives to help small businesses owned by women to hire and grow and get access to capital.