TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Wednesday [4-26-17] proposed sharp reductions in both individual and corporate income tax rates, reducing the number of individual income tax brackets to three — 10 percent, 25 percent and 35 percent — and easing the tax burden on most Americans, including the rich.
The Trump administration would double the standard deduction, essentially eliminating taxes on the first $24,000 of a couple’s earnings. It also called for the elimination of most itemized tax deductions but would leave in place the popular deductions for mortgage interest and charitable contributions. The estate tax and the alternative minimum tax, which Mr. Trump has railed against for years, would be repealed under his plan.
As expected, the White House did not include in its plan the border adjustment tax on imports that was prized by House Republicans. However, it did express broad support for switching to a so-called territorial tax system that would exempt company earnings abroad from taxation but would encourage companies to maintain their headquarters in the United States.
The plan would include a special one-time tax to entice companies to repatriate cash that they are parking overseas.”
-Alan Rapport and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Mnuchin Says Trump Will Offer ‘Biggest Tax Cut’ in U.S. History,” The New York Times online, April 26, 2017