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Partly Done: Create a Super CHIPS Credit

Partly Done: Create a Super CHIPS Credit
Knowledge Base Article in: Tech Policy To-Do List
Last Updated: July 28, 2025

Recommendation

Congress should create a Super Chips Tax Credit.

Details

The CHIPS Act created a 25 percent tax investment credit for U.S.-based firms investing in semiconductor machinery and equipment. To strengthen this legislation, Congress should pass another 25 percent tax credit—a “Super CHIPS Tax Credit”—for machinery, equipment, and buildings purchased by advanced-industry R&D and production firms in the United States. Domestic firms and firms from U.S.-allied nations should be able to apply for this credit. State and local governments should ideally match this federal incentive program.

Keep reading:

Robert D. Atkinson, “Twelve Tax Reforms to Spur Innovation and Competitiveness” (ITIF, September 2024), https://itif.org/publications/2024/09/25/twelve-tax-reforms-to-spur-innovation-and-competitiveness/.

Robert D. Atkinson, “The Hamilton Index: Assessing National Performance in the Competition for Advanced Industries,” (ITIF, June 2022), https://itif.org/publications/2022/06/08/the-hamilton-index-assessing-national-performance-in-the-competition-for-advanced-industries/.

Update

Whereas ITIF has called for a CHIPS-like credit for machinery, equipment, and buildings, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025, included a narrower expansion focused on facility investment.

Details:

One Big Beautiful Bill Act, H.R. 1, 119th Congress (2025), https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text.

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