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Freshmen Reps Join Early Effort To Kill Device Tax In New Congress

Rep. Eric Paulsen, R-Minn., made a bid to repeal the medical device tax at the start of the new session in a bill that would be retroactive to the 2013 tax year and has attracted 253 cosponsors, including 26 Democrats.

Several freshmen and newer House members – Reps. John Katko, R-NY, Marian “Mimi” Walters, R-Calif., and Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., among them – stood shoulder to shoulder with Rep. Eric Paulsen, R-Minn., on Jan. 7 as he introduced another in a series of medical device tax repeal bill, H.R. 160.

The “Protect Medical Innovation Act,” would retroactively remove the 2.3 percent device excise tax obligation from manufacturers from when it...

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