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Volunteer Driver Tax Appreciation Act of 2025

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to equalize the charitable mileage rate with the business travel rate.

Introduced Feb 25, 2025

Latest action (Feb 25, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Referred to
Ways and Means Committee
Policy area
Taxation
Issues
Economy & Taxes

Summary
  • Increases the tax deduction for charitable mileage to match the standard business mileage rate.
  • Applies the increased rate to volunteers driving for charitable organizations to transport persons or property.
  • The Secretary of the Treasury determines the charitable mileage rate, which must be at least as high as the business rate.
  • The change is effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2024.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
12 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Pete Stauber’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $92,343
  • KING CAPITAL CORPORATION $13,200
  • STRATA PRODUCTION COMPANY $9,100
  • ARVIG ENTERPRISES $8,871
  • HUBBARD BROADCASTING INC $8,641

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Pete Stauber → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Feb 25, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. · house
  2. Feb 25, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 1177 — Volunteer Driver Tax Appreciation Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 27, 2025 · Cong. 119 93%
  • HR 1288 — DRIVE Act of 2025 · Introduced Apr 11, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 1942 — DELIVER Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • S 895 — DELIVER Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 6, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • HR 1293 — Vehicle Energy Performance Act of 2025 · Introduced Feb 13, 2025 · Cong. 119 66%
  • HR 801 — Charitable Act · Introduced Jan 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Feb 25, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 25, 2025

Mr. Stauber (for himself and Ms. Craig) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

A BILL

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to equalize the charitable mileage rate with the business travel rate.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Volunteer Driver Tax Appreciation Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN CHARITABLE MILEAGE RATE.

(a) In General.—Subsection (i) of section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking “shall be 14 cents per mile” and inserting “shall be—

“(1) except as provided in paragraph (2), 14 cents per mile, and

“(2) in the case of transportation of persons (other than the taxpayer) or property on behalf of an organization described in subsection (c), the rate determined by the Secretary, which rate shall not be less than the standard mileage rate used for purposes of sections 162 and 212.”.

(b) Effective Date.—The amendment made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024. <all>

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