House Passes Historic Tax Reform Package

Rep. Loudermilk (R-GA) issued the following statement after the House passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act:
 
“Though the tax reform bill is a work in progress, this is a historic day – as House Republicans passed the most significant reforms to our tax code in over 30 years. To the young married couple just starting out, this is for you; we doubled the standard deduction so the first $24,000 a couple makes is tax free. To the average family of four, this is for you; under our plan, the average family of four will keep about $1,200 more of their hard-earned money. To the small business owner, this is for you; our plan gives small businesses the tools they need to compete. To the American worker, this is for you; our plan makes America competitive and will bring economic growth and better jobs. Americans should not need a team of lawyers or accountants to fill out their taxes – that’s why we passed this simple and fair tax relief for hardworking Americans.”
 
Tax Reform Highlights (Courtesy of the House Committee on Ways and Means)
 
Individuals and Families:

• Lowers individual tax rates to 0, 12%, 25%, and 35% and maintains the top rate of 39.6%, but raises income threshold to $1 million for couples and $500,000 for singles.
• Roughly doubles the standard deduction from $6,350 to $12,000 for individuals and $12,700 to $24,000 for married couples.
• Establishes a new consolidated family credit, which includes expanding the child tax credit from $1,000 to $1,600 for each child and providing new credits of $300 each for the taxpayer, spouse and other dependents.
• Preserves the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit.
• Preserves the Adoption Tax Credit.
• Preserves the deduction for charitable contributions.
• Preserves the home mortgage interest deduction for existing mortgages and maintains the home mortgage interest deduction for newly purchased homes for interest on up to $500,000 of mortgage principal.
• Continues to allow individuals to write off the cost of state and local property taxes up to $10,000.
• Repeals the alternative minimum tax.
• Begins phasing out the estate tax by immediately doubling the exemption amount and repealing the estate tax after seven years.

Business:

• Lowers the top corporate tax rate to 20%.
• Reduces the top tax rate on pass through business income to no more than 25%.
• Provides a new, low tax rate of 9% for the first $75,000 (joint filers) of income earned by an active owner in a pass-through business of any type.
• Establishes safeguards to distinguish between individual wage income and “pass through” business income.
• Allows businesses to immediately write-off the full cost of purchases of new or used equipment.
• Protects the ability of small businesses and any businesses with “floor plan” inventory financing to write off the interest on loans.
• Modernizes our international tax system by moving to a “territorial” system.
• Returns income trapped overseas through “deemed” repatriation.
• Includes “base-erosion” rules to prevent companies from hiding U.S. profits in offshore affiliates.
• Provides an exclusion from the limitation on deductibility of net business interest for taxpayers that paid or accrued interest on “floor plan financing indebtedness.”

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