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Bill · 119th Congress · HR 917

Mortgage Debt Tax Forgiveness Act of 2025

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Introduced 2025-02-04Topic: taxes

Summary

Summary by the Congressional Research Service

Mortgage Debt Tax Forgiveness Act of 2025 This bill makes permanent the exclusion of the discharge of qualified principal residence indebtedness from gross income for federal tax purposes. Under current law, a taxpayer may generally exclude from gross income up to $750,000 (or $375,000 if married but filing a separate federal tax return) from the discharge of indebtedness that is (1) incurred to purchase, build, or substantially improve a principal residence (or refinance such indebtedness); and (2) secured by the principal residence. The discharge must currently occur before January 1, 2026, and some limitations apply.

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2025-02-04HouseReferred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.refer
2025-02-04Introduced in Houseintroduce
2025-02-04Introduced in Houseintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-09-11. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.