Capital Gains Tax Tug-Of-War: Democratic Presidential Candidates, Trump’s Indexing, And IRS Forms
The capital gains tax is once again a political tug-of-war. While Democratic presidential candidates discuss changes in capital gains tax to boost federal revenue, the Trump White House is pulling in the opposite direction: a possible executive order to require the US Treasury to index capital gains for inflation—effectively a tax cut that would, controversially, bypass Congress.
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