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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the stock market will probably see its gains wiped out if lawmakers fail to deliver planned tax cuts that will benefit corporate America.
October 18 -
Steve Bannon won’t abandon his war against congressional Republican incumbents, not even after President Donald Trump publicly pleaded for a truce that could salvage the tax overhaul at the heart of his legislative agenda.
October 17 -
Cutting the corporate tax rate to 20 percent, as President Donald Trump has proposed, would increase average household income by at least $4,000 a year, according to estimates in a White House study.
October 17 -
President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to give themselves some breathing room on their goal of completing a tax overhaul before year’s end in remarks that emphasized the difficulty of passing major legislation.
October 16 -
The deduction for state and local taxes could be a major stumbling block for reform.
October 12 -
The U.S. tax code is uncompetitive and overly complex, and it’s time for politicians and special interests to set aside partisan interests and pass reform legislation, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said.
October 11 -
President Donald Trump will try to make the case that corporate tax breaks would benefit middle-class wage earners Wednesday evening—and an excerpt of his speech suggests he’ll use a measure of salesmanship.
October 11 -
Allies of President Donald Trump say they fear his feud with Republican Senator Bob Corker risks unraveling the White House tax overhaul effort and that another major legislative failure could hobble the administration for the rest of his term.
October 10 -
U.S. online retailers like Amazon.com stand to gain from the Trump administration’s push to throw open the doors for Canadians and Mexicans to buy American goods duty-free.
October 6 -
Tax cuts and deregulation can help the U.S. economy grow faster than the recent pace of about 2 percent, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn said.
October 6 -
The Trump administration urged the overhaul of key rules underpinning trading in U.S. stock, bond and derivatives markets, calling on regulators to loosen dozens of restrictions.
October 6 -
A group of conservative House Democrats is embracing some elements of a GOP plan to cut taxes, potentially creating an opening for Republicans to win bipartisan support.
October 4 -
The White House is showing “softness” on ending a $1.3 trillion federal tax deduction filers get for their state and local taxes, Senator Bob Corker said Monday, warning that it raises questions about the GOP’s “intestinal fortitude” and could imperil a tax overhaul.
October 3 -
On the last page of a nine-page tax plan that calls for slashing business rates, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans proposed a little-noticed, brand-new tax that may hit companies like Apple Inc. and Pfizer Inc.
October 2 -
Trump isn’t tied to eliminating the break, which is popular in states with high rates, like New York, New Jersey and California.
September 29 -
By 2027, almost 30 percent of individuals with incomes between $50,000 and $150,000 would see their taxes rise under the elements of a Republican framework for tax legislation released this week, according to an analysis released Friday by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
September 29 -
The document provides more detail than a number of other tax reform documents that have emerged from the Administration over the past few months, but it still leaves many specifics to be worked out by Congress's tax-writing committees.
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Senate Republicans unveiled a fiscal 2018 budget resolution Friday that they intend to use to push through as much as $1.5 trillion of tax cuts in the coming months, but it won’t allow the GOP to pursue a full repeal of Obamacare.
September 29 -
President Donald Trump and Republican leaders unveiled a nine-page framework to rewrite the nation’s tax code this week to rave reviews from within their party. But now the hard part starts—with the tax-writing committees in the House and Senate tasked with settling some of the most divisive issues.
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President Donald Trump’s plan to slash the corporate tax rate may not provide the sustained job growth that he and Republican leaders want, some economists say— that’s a point of longstanding and unsettled debate.
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