Tax deductions

House Republicans narrowly adopted a budget resolution Thursday unlocking a fast-track process to achieve their long-sought goal of cutting Americans’ taxes by the end of the year. The next step will be releasing a draft tax measure as early as Nov. 1.

Congress is trying to ram through a bill that would reshape the U.S. economy in just a few short weeks, but its leaders have kept the plan shrouded in secrecy and released not a word of legislative text.

House Speaker Paul Ryan’s efforts to kill a deduction as part of a Republican tax overhaul would hit very close to home—among his constituents with homes on glistening Geneva Lake in his southeastern Wisconsin district.

House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady said Wednesday he expects to announce a deal with concerned Republicans from high-tax states on the state and local tax deduction “before the bill will be laid out next week.”

The Senate budget agreement moves tax reform back to the other chamber of Congress.

The feud between President Donald Trump and Bob Corker flared up again Tuesday when the Republican senator said the president should stay out of the tax-overhaul effort, expressing concern that the White House has been making it harder for Congress to craft legislation.

The IRS has released a draft of the form for the 2017 tax year.

The GOP show of unity will allow reform to pass on a party-line vote.

The standard deductions and personal exemptions will rise slightly.

The deduction for state and local taxes could be a major stumbling block for reform.