The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
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Our Goals
More Jobs
America has one of the worst tax codes in the industrialized world for businesses. By reducing tax rates for businesses large and small, our bill will level the playing field and make America the jobs magnet of the world.
Fairer Taxes
Our tax code is too complicated. By throwing out special-interest loopholes and consolidating deductions, our bill will make filing taxes so easy that you can use a form as simple as a postcard.
Bigger Paychecks
Americans' taxes are too high, so we are lowering individual tax rates for low- and middle-income Americans and eliminating excessive, costly taxes. That means you get to keep more of your hard-earned paycheck.
How will our plan benefit Georgia?
A recent analysis by non-partisan Tax Foundation found that the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act will add an estimated 975,000 new full time jobs to the American economy and increase after tax income by 4.4 percent for median households.
- Estimated jobs added: 29,521
- Estimated Gain in After-Tax Income for Middle-Income Families: $2,355
Our Plan
Lowers Individual Tax rates for Low- and Middle-Income Americans
Lowers individual taxes and sets the rates at 0%, 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35%, and 37% so people can keep more of the money they earn throughout their lives.
Significantly Increases the Standard Deduction and Establishes a New Family Credit
Significantly increases the standard deduction to protect roughly double the amount of what you earn each year from taxes – from $6,500 and $13,000 under current law to $12,000 and $24,000 for individuals and married couples, respectively.
Expands the Child Tax Credit from $1,000 to $2,000 for single filers and married couples to help parents with the cost of raising children. The tax credit is fully refundable up to $1,400 and begins to phase-out for families making over $400,000.
Preserves the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction
Preserves the mortgage interest deduction – providing tax relief to current and aspiring homeowners. For all homeowners with existing mortgages that were taken out to buy a home, there will be no change to the current mortgage interest deduction.
For homeowners with new mortgages on a first or second home, the home mortgage interest deduction will be available up to $750,000.
Prevents American Jobs, Headquarters, and Research from Moving Overseas
Prevents American jobs, headquarters, and research from moving overseas by eliminating incentives that now reward companies for shifting jobs, profits, and manufacturing plants abroad.
Improves Savings Vehicles for Education and Provides Support for Graduate Students
Improves savings vehicles for education by allowing families to use 529 accounts to save for elementary, secondary and higher education.
Provides support for graduate students by continuing to exempt the value of reduced tuition from taxes.
Delivers Significant Tax Relief to Main Street Job Creators
Offering a first-ever 20% tax deduction that applies to the first $315,000 of joint income earned by all businesses organized as S corporations, partnerships, LLCs, and sole proprietorships. For Main Street job creators with income above this level, the bill generally provides a deduction for up to 20% on business profits – reducing their effective marginal tax rate to no more than 29.6%.
Allows businesses to immediately write off the full cost of new equipment to improve operations and enhance the skills of their workers – unleashing growth of jobs, productivity, and paychecks
Provides Relief for Americans with Expensive Medical Bills and Eliminates Obamacare’s Individual Mandate Penalty Tax
Provides relief for Americans with expensive medical bills by expanding the medical expense deduction for 2017 and 2018 for medical expenses exceeding 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income, and rising to 10 percent beginning in 2019.
Eliminates Obamacare’s individual mandate penalty tax – providing families with much-needed relief and flexibility to buy the health care that’s right for them if they choose.
Lowers the Corporate Tax Rate to 21%
Lowers the corporate tax rate to 21% (beginning Jan. 1, 2018) – down from 35%, which today is the highest in theindustrialized world – the largest reduction in the U.S. corporate tax rate in our nation’s history
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