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     &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Connect America Now Act or the CAN Act&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This bill allows an exclusion from gross income, for income tax purposes, of gain from the sale or exchange of the entire interest in a wholly-owned rural incumbent local exchange carrier. A &lt;i&gt;rural incumbent local exchange carrier&lt;/i&gt; is a carrier that serves (1) an area where it was required to provide communications services by a specified date to any customer regardless of cost, and (2) an area other than an urbanized area with not fewer than 50,000 people and a core where there are not fewer than 1,000 people per square mile. The bill requires recapture of tax for income from the sale or exchange of stock in a carrier not held for at least one year. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The bill allows an investment tax credit for 30% of expenditures to purchase, maintain, or improve property to provide voice telephone service or broadband internet access in rural empowerment zones.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The bill increases the volume cap for private activity bonds and allows the use of bond proceeds for infrastructure for broadband internet access service.&lt;/p&gt;
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