The tax plan released by the White House on Wednesday was short on detail, but looked broadly similar to President Donald Trump’s pre-election plan. With the deep cuts to individual income and corporate tax rates estimated to increase the Federal budget deficit by up to $7tn over a decade, however, there is next to no chance of the plan ever being approved by Congress in its current form.
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