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PUBLIC LAW 567-AUG. 5, 1954

[68 S T A T.

SO transferred shall be an advance which shall be repaid (without interest) by the State to the Federal unemployment account in the manner provided in subsections (a) and (b)(1) of section 1202. Repayments. "SEC. 1202. (a) The Governor of any State may at any time request that funds be transferred from the account of such State to the Federal unemployment account in repayment of part or all of any remaining balance of advances made to such State under section 1201. The Secretary of Labor shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount stated in such request; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall promptly transfer such amount. ^propriations. "(b)(1) There are hereby appropriated to the Unemployment Trust Fund for credit to the Federal unemployment account, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, amounts equal to the amounts by which (A) 100 per centum of the additional tax 26 USC 1611. received under the Federal I^nemployment Tax Act by reason of the Infra, reduced credits provisions of section 1601(c)(2) of such Act and covered into the Treasury, exceeds (B) the amounts appropriated by paragraph (2). Any amount so appropriated shall be credited against, and shall operate to reduce, the remaining balance of advances under section 1201 to the State with respect to which employers paid such additional tax. "(2) Whenever the amount of such additional tax paid, received, and covered into the Treasury exceeds the remaining balance of advances under section 1201 to the State, there is hereby appropriated to the Unemployment Trust Fund for credit to the account of such State, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount equal to such excess. "(o) The amounts appropriated by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be transferred at the close of the month in which the moneys were covered into the Treasury to the Unemployment Trust Fund for credit to the Federal unemployment account or to the account of the State, as the case may be, as of the first day of the succeeding month. Advances. "(c) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Federal unemployment account, as repayable advances (without interest), such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this title. "SEC. 1203. When used in this title, the term 'Governor' shall include the Commissioners of the District of Columbia." SEC. 4. Section 1601(c) of the Internal Revenue Code (Federal 26 USC 1601(c). Unemployment Tax Act) is hereby amended to read as follows: "(c) L I M I T ON TOTAL CREDITS.—

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26 USC 1600.

"(1) The total credits allowed to a taxpayer under this section shall not exceed 90 per centum of the tax against which such credits are allowable. "(2) If an advance or advances have been made to the unemployment account of a State under title X II of the Social Security Act, and if any balance of such advance or advances has not been returned to the Federal unemployment account as provided in that title before December 1 of the taxable year, then the total credits (after other reductions under this section) otherwise allowable under this section for such taxable year in the case of a taxpayer subject to the unemployment compensation law of such State shall be reduced— " (A) in the case of a taxable year beginning with the fourth consecutive January 1 on which such a balance of unreturned advances existed, by 5 per centum of the tax imposed by section 1600 with respect to the wages paid by such taxpayer during such taxable year which are attributable to such State; and

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