Tanning Tax Repeal Act of 2025

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The bill simply repeals a federal excise tax on indoor tanning services. Repealing a tax is well within Congress's broad taxing power under Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, and it does not infringe any constitutional right. In fact, it reduces the federal footprint and returns decision-making to individuals and states, aligning with constitutional principles of limited government and decentralization.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Congress has explicit authority to levy taxes under Article I, Section 8, Clause 1. Repealing an existing excise tax is a valid exercise of that same power. The bill does not create new federal authority; it removes a federal tax, which is clearly within Congress's enumerated powers.
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  The bill does not implicate any of the first ten amendments. It does not restrict speech, religion, assembly, press, petition, arms, quartering, search and seizure, self-incrimination, due process, takings, trial rights, or cruel and unusual punishment. Repealing a tax on tanning services has no bearing on any enumerated right.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  Repealing a tax reduces government restriction on individual economic activity. Individuals and businesses will retain more of their own property and face less government interference in their choice to provide or use tanning services. This enhances, rather than restricts, individual sovereignty.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  The bill passes all four questions. Individuals and families can decide for themselves whether to use tanning services without federal involvement. Local communities and states can regulate or tax tanning services as they see fit. The federal government is not consolidating power; it is withdrawing from a specific tax area, leaving more room for individual and state decision-making.
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  The bill does not deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process. It does not take property; it removes a tax, which leaves more property in private hands. There is no procedural or substantive due process concern, and no takings issue under the Fifth Amendment.

Sources: Congress.gov: HR 1940 summary