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President Donald Trump is planning to kick off one of the most important sales pitches of his presidency this week—getting Americans fired up about rewriting the U.S. tax code.
August 28 -
Most Republicans support killing the estate tax as part of a tax overhaul, but doing so could have dire consequences for something else conservatives cherish—charitable giving.
August 25 -
President Donald Trump will spend the next several weeks leading a public campaign in support of a tax overhaul while the White House leaves Republican lawmakers to hash out details of the plan, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn said in an interview with the Financial Times.
August 25 -
President Donald Trump said he asked Republican leaders in Congress to include a measure to raise the U.S. debt ceiling in a popular veterans bill to avoid a “mess” in which they have to rely on Democrats’ support.
August 24 -
A growing number of key congressional Republicans are considering a controversial maneuver that would allow for about $450 billion of tax cuts without offsets, according to four congressional aides familiar with the discussions.
August 22 -
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday that President Donald Trump may keep the carried interest tax break for firms that create jobs, while eliminating it for hedge fund managers.
August 22 -
Partners need to grow individually because that is what will propel the firm’s further growth.
August 21
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin emerged over the weekend as one of the staunchest defenders of Donald Trump in the Cabinet, bringing stability to the administration’s economic policy agenda as it heads into what’s expected to be an unpredictable debt-limit debate.
August 21 -
A group of five Republican members on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee wrote a letter Thursday to Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen urging the IRS to stop rehiring former employees who had previous conduct or performance issues.
August 17 -
Top Republican tax writers went to a national shrine for tax cutters—former President Ronald Reagan’s California ranch—hoping to make a sales pitch for a historic overhaul of the U.S. tax code.
August 17 -
Donald Trump said he’s disbanding two advisory groups of American business leaders, after CEOs quit this week as the president faced blowback for failing to sufficiently condemn white supremacists.
August 16 -
President Donald Trump once again unloaded on Amazon.com Inc., tweeting that the company is hurting other retailers and implying that it’s killing industry jobs across the U.S.
August 16 -
My best hires were those I hired out of school and trained.
August 14
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President Donald Trump laid out a path for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to get back in his good graces: replace Obamacare, overhaul the U.S. tax code and find a way to pay for big infrastructure improvements.
August 14 -
The reductions might not do all that much to help the economy in 2018.
August 14 -
President Donald Trump repeatedly slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the past two days over the failure of Congress to eliminate Obamacare, escalating a war of words with a fellow Republican who is key to advancing the president’s agenda.
August 10 -
The White House is reaching back to a past administration for a strategy to get tax reform passed.
August 9 -
Republicans struggling to pass a major tax overhaul that doesn’t add to the federal deficit are discussing a kind of compromise: mixing permanent revisions with temporary rate cuts for individuals and businesses.
August 8 -
Perhaps the most important staffing decision is to know when to hire your first employee. I believe this decision needs to be guided by your goals.
August 7
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Representative Ted Yoho had hoped to spend the August recess in his North Florida district making the case for a tax overhaul. Instead, the third-term Republican said he doesn’t know what to say when his constituents ask what the revamp will mean for them.
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