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US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says business tax rate at 15% in Trump tax plan

Washington | ByReuters
Apr 26, 2017 07:50 PM IST

Mnuchin says this is going to be the biggest tax cut and the largest tax reform in the history of our country.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the plan for “the biggest tax cut” in U.S. history due to be released later on Wednesday by the White House would cut the business tax rate to 15%, including for small businesses.

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin arrives for a meeting on tax reform with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S.(Reuters photo)
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin arrives for a meeting on tax reform with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S.(Reuters photo)

“This is going to be the biggest tax cut and the largest tax reform in the history of our country,” Mnuchin said at a news forum in Washington. He said there was fundamental agreement between President Donald Trump’s administration and the Congress on the goals of the tax reform, and the details would be worked out.

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Separately, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said he had seen a “sneak preview” of the plan. “We like it a lot, it puts us on the same page, we’re in agreement on 80% and on the 20% we’re in the same ballpark,” Ryan said. (Reporting by Amanda Becker and Ginger Gibson; Writing by Washington Newsroom)

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