Tax reform

Who would the changes help — and hurt? Baird’s director of advanced planning weighs in.

The push by Tesla Inc., General Motors Co. and other carmakers to boost sales of electric vehicles was dealt a blow by House Republicans who on Thursday proposed eliminating a $7,500 per vehicle tax credit that has helped stoke early demand.

Tax credits cherished by the wind and solar industry remain under a rewrite of the tax code revealed by House Republicans, but the measure would trim the wind energy’s production tax credit by more than a third.

The House tax bill released Thursday preserves the carried interest tax break—paid to private-equity managers, venture capitalists, hedge fund managers and certain real estate investors—despite President Donald Trump and GOP leaders’ promise to do away with loopholes for the wealthy.

House Republican leaders began rolling out a tax bill Thursday that contains sweeping changes for business and individual taxes, including a measure to cut the corporate tax rate to 20 percent.

U.S. companies that have accumulated trillions of dollars of overseas earnings would be taxed on that stockpiled income at a rate as high as 12 percent under the tax-overhaul bill that House Republicans released Thursday.

House tax writers unveiled what the individual income tax brackets will be under their proposed legislation—with a 39.6 percent rate for households making more than $1 million annually.

House Republican leaders began rolling out a tax bill Thursday that contains sweeping changes for business and individual tax rates, including a measure to cut the corporate tax rate to 20 percent.

House Republican leaders plan to unveil a tax bill Thursday that would cut the corporate tax rate to 20 percent and leave it there—abandoning an earlier plan to phase out the rate cut over time, said a person familiar with discussions on the bill.

President Donald Trump called Wednesday for repealing the Obamacare individual mandate in a tax overhaul, a day before House GOP leaders planned to unveil a bill without that provision.