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This bill — the CRUMBS Act — would make all bonuses received by individuals in 2018 tax-free up to $2,500 for federal tax purposes.

The bill’s full title is the Creating Real and Useful Middle-Class Benefits and Savings (CRUMBS) Act. The acronym is a reference to a comment made by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who derided the bonuses given by businesses to hundreds of thousands of employees because of the Republican tax reform law as “crumbs”: “In terms of the bonus that corporate America received versus the crumbs that they are giving to workers to kind of put the schmooze on is so pathetic.”

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CRUMBS Act: Should Bonuses Up to $2,500 This Year be Tax-Free for Individuals?