Donald Trump's tax reform ideas could leave roughly 93.2 million Americans off the hook for at least part of their income taxes. Trump has proposed eliminating taxes on tips and Social Security benefits, and said he would think about exemptions for firefighters, police and military personnel. ...
Garrett Watson, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, told CBS News. "There are no guardrails on this, so the cost could go up from there," Watson said.
"A payroll tax exemption would reach lower down in the income distribution, but that has additional implications for the financing of Social Security and Medicare, as well as impacts on future benefits which are tied to the taxes that people pay on their income," Rosenberg said. The heftyfeder...
Losses in the property businesses solely owned and managed by Trump appear to have offset income from his stake in “The Apprentice” and other entities with multiple owners. During the first two years of his presidency, Trump relied on business tax credits to reduce his tax obligati...
A Washington state couple, Charles and Kathleen Moore, sued to strike down the law saying a $15,000 tax bill they paid as shareholders of an Indian company was illegal because they had not personally realized any financial gain. "Congress has long taxed shareholders of an entity on t...
Donald Trump paid just $750 a year in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017, the New York Timesreported on Sunday, after obtaining tax-return data the US president has refused to release in defiance of decades of presidential tradition. ...
Supreme Court hears case on government having the power to tax unrealized incomeWashington —The Supreme Court on Thursday left intact an obscure tax enacted as part of Republicans' sweeping 2017 reform package thattargets U.S. taxpayerswith shares of certain foreign corporations.The court ruled 7-...
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Trump has also pledged to raise the limit on how much taxpayers can deduct from their federal taxable income to reflect state and local taxes, or SALT, they already paid. This, too, would mean less money for the Treasury every year. One idea for lowering the overall cost of the tax cuts...
Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center said if the proposal only focuses on income tax — and not elimination of payroll tax — the cut won’t be as significant. “It’s one of those things where there is a lot less to it than meets the eye,”...