Trump’s tax duo to brief senior US Congress leaders on plan
Both omissions left significant doubt over whether the outline would be embraced by Trump’s own party. Many U.S. corporations, especially large multinationals, already pay well below the statutory 35-percent tax rate, but have been campaigning for a formal rate cut for many years.Trump’s plan may also include a proposal to let multinationals bring foreign profits being held overseas into the United States at a steeply discounted income tax rate, another long-standing goal of the corporate tax lobbying community. Today, the official scorekeeper for Congress dealt the argument – and Trump’s plan – another blow. Still, 18 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say that Trump aides helped Russian Federation in its efforts to swing the race. “You can’t do it”. In his joint address to Congress in February, the U.S. president previewed his proposals, saying: “My economic team is developing historic tax reform that will reduce the tax rate on our companies so they can compete and thrive anywhere and with anyone”.
Trump plans to impose a 20% tariff on Canadian softwood-lumber imports, writes the Wall Street Journal.
Trump has been railing against Canada’s decision to change its policy on pricing domestic milk to cover more dairy ingredients, leading to lower prices for products, including ultra-filtered milk.
One of the things the business community was expecting from the Republican controlled government is a lowering of tax rates, and the US corporate rate does need to be lowered.
Senate Republicans can use a process called reconciliation, which allows the passage of a bill with a simply majority, to pass a tax bill.
“I think it’s very hard if you’re not doing it in a bipartisan way”, Toder said. It could also be widely dismissed by outside observers as an over-hyped rehash of promises the president already made during the campaign.
“That could end up helping Trump enact policies that Obama opposes”. So the president’s shift makes it possible for both sides to reach a viable deal, says Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of CT.
SANCTUARY CITIES A US judge blocks Trump’s executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities, dealing another legal blow to the administration’s efforts to toughen immigration enforcement.
Under such a provision, companies could no longer deduct the cost of their imported goods, and the sales of their exports would no longer be subject to US tax.
There are other problems with the US tax code. He’s also poised to sign an order that directs a review of the locations available for off-shore oil and gas exploration. No president has ever removed a monument designation created by a former president. He said the lower tax rate for small business owners – a category that under current legal definitions could include doctors, lawyers and even companies such the Trump Organization – would not be used as a loophole for the rich to reduce their tax burden.
President Donald Trump speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 25, 2017, during the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s National Days of Remembrance ceremony.
A revenue-neutral tax plan is especially important because tax cuts that add to the deficit may expire after 10 years.
He says he’s not anxious about sparking a trade war with Canada but says it has “outsmarted our politicians for many years”.
OIL: Benchmark U.S. crude oil lost 12 cents to $49.44 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.