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This bill eliminates all subsidies and tax breaks for various types of clean energy. It also establishes a flat income tax rate on corporations based on the revenue savings from repealing the various tax credits for clean energy.

The bill eliminates nine types of clean energy incentives:

Excise tax credits for alcohol fuel, biodiesel, and alternative fuel mixtures;
Tax credits for buying semi and fully electric cars;
Tax credits for refueling electric vehicles;
Income tax credits for alcohol, biodiesel, and renewable diesel used as fuel;
The enhanced oil recovery tax credit and the tax credit for producing oil and gas from specific types of wells;
Tax credits for producing electricity from renewable resources and from advanced nuclear power facilities;
Tax credits for carbon dioxide sequestration;
The energy tax credit; and
Tax credits for investment in qualifying advanced coal projects and qualifying gasification projects.

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