Latest News President Trump’s Tax Proposals: Overtime Tax, Taxes on Tips, and Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Extension and More Read the Article Open Share Drawer Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Written by TurboTaxLisa Published Mar 14, 2025 - [Updated May 23, 2025] 8 min read Updated May 22, 2025: President Trump’s proposed tax bill being referred to as “One Big, Beautiful, Bill” was passed in the House and now moves to the Senate. The legislation includes a significant number of proposed tax law changes. The bill proposes permanently extending tax cuts from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including increasing the cap on the amount of state and local or sales tax and property tax (SALT) that you can deduct, makes cuts to energy credits passed under the Inflation Reduction Act, makes changes to taxes on tips, social security, and overtime for certain workers, reforms Medicaid, increases the Debt ceiling, and reforms Pell Grants and student loans. It is important to note, the proposed tax bill was not signed into law and will not impact your 2024 taxes if you still need to file. TurboTax is up to date with the latest tax laws so you can file with confidence. Some of the tax provisions on the table are below. Check back with the TurboTax blog for the latest updates and details. If you’ve been keeping an eye on the news, you might have heard about President Trump’s latest tax proposals. You may be wondering, “Are tips and overtime now tax free?”, “Are the IRS layoffs impacting tax season?”, “What new tax laws will pass?”, and “Should I file my taxes now or wait?” Here’s what you need to know: No tax law changes have passed related to the Trump Administration’s proposals, so there is no impact to your 2024 taxes that you file this year. IRS layoffs do not impact their ability to process tax returns and deliver refunds on schedule. On Friday, March 14, 2025, a government shutdown was averted, following the passage of a six-month funding bill. IRS latest filing statistics for week ending May 9, 2025 reports that refunds are up 2.4% over last year with an average refund amount of $2,939. You can file your 2024 taxes (the taxes you are filing in 2025) with TurboTax now. TurboTax stays on top of all tax changes and will help you file your taxes with 100% accuracy guaranteed – whether you want to file yourself or have a tax expert prepare and file your taxes for you. Want more details? Keep reading… With a new congress convening earlier this year, multiple tax proposals emerged, many of which are related to the expiration of provisions passed by the previous Trump administration under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which are in effect from 2018 through 2025. While we don’t yet know if any tax law changes will occur, President Trump has expressed a desire to further extend provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which expire after 2025 and don’t impact your 2024 taxes. There are also some new provisions that President Trump is advocating for. Some of the proposed provisions passed by the House are as follows: Make the individual and estate tax cuts of the TCJA permanent (including increasing the cap on State and Local or Sales Tax and Property Tax) Permanently raise State and Local or Sales and Property Tax (SALT) cap to $40,000 if you earn up to $500,000 Exempt tip income from taxation Exempt Social Security benefits from taxation Exempt overtime pay from taxation for certain workers Create a deduction for auto loan interest for certain vehicles Child Tax Credit expansion Repeal of energy efficient credits for EVs, hybrids, charging, and energy efficient home improvements beginning in 2026 Permanently raise the Qualified Business Income Deduction to 23% What are the details of the proposals and what could they mean for my taxes and finances? Permanent extension of provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) however includes an increased cap on State and Local or Sales and Property Tax (SALT): This would permanently extend certain tax benefits from the 2017 act. The 2017 TCJA lowered individual tax rates, nearly doubled the standard deduction, and expanded the Child Tax Credit. The legislation includes permanent extension of provisions under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, while increasing the cap on State and Local or Sales and Property Tax (SALT) to $40,000 for income up to $500,000, phasing out for income over $500,000. Filers living in states with high state and property taxes are currently capped at a $10,000 deduction for total state and local or sales tax and property tax – even when many of them may pay way beyond that amount. If this part of the provision was passed to increase the cap to $40,000, then filers in states with high state and property taxes may be able to deduct more of their related expenses paid. Exempt tip income from taxation: For tax year 2024 (the taxes you’re filing in 2025) all cash and non-cash tips are income subject to federal taxes, social security, and Medicare taxes and must be reported to the employer. Tips less than $20 in a month are not required to be reported. The provision creates a temporary above-the-line deduction for tips for 2025 through 2028. Exempt Social Security benefits from taxation: In tax year 2024 (the taxes you’re filing in 2025) not everyone is required to pay taxes on social security income. In general, social security income is not taxed, however other streams of income like retirement income can make a portion of social security income taxable. If your adjusted gross income plus nontaxable interest plus 1/2 of social security benefits – known as combined income – is a certain income threshold then, 50% – 85% of your social security benefits may be taxable. A no tax on social security provision is not a tax law for 2024 taxes (the ones you file in 2025), but if social security was not taxed, then it would not need to be included in a retirees’ additional streams of income like retirement or side gig income to figure out their taxes. Exempt overtime pay from taxation for certain workers: Certain workers often make a substantial amount of additional income working overtime. The bill passed by the house includes a proposal to exempt taxes on overtime pay for certain workers for tax years 2025 – 2028. No taxes on overtime could lower taxable income and taxes since the overtime income would not be included as taxable income. Deduction for auto loan interest for certain vehicles: The auto loan interest deduction and other personal loan interest deductions were once available in the ‘80s. The provision creates a temporary above-the-line deduction of up to $10,000 for car loan interest for 2025 through 2028. The deduction phases out above $100,000 for single filers and $200,000 for married couples. Expansion of the Child Tax Credit: For tax year 2024 (the taxes you file in 2025), the Child Tax Credit is up to $2,000 per dependent child under the age of 17. The provision temporarily increases the credit to $2,500 for 2025 through 2028. It permanently extends the credit at $2,000 after 2028 and indexes to inflation. It permanently extends the refundable portion of the credit ($1,700 in 2025). It also permanently extends the $2,500 earnings floor, and phase-out thresholds of $200,000 for single filers or single-headed households and $400,000 for married couples. Repeal of Energy Efficient Credits: The House GOP Reconciliation Bill includes the repeal of energy efficient credits for EVs, hybrids, and energy efficient home improvements passed under the Inflation Reduction Act beginning in 2026. If the law is passed you would no longer receive credits like the $7,500 credit for the purchase of a new electric vehicle or $4,000 for a used electric vehicle. You also would not be able to claim a credit for home improvements like energy efficient windows and doors.Permanently Increase the Qualified Business Income Deduction: Presently the Qualified Business Income Deduction for self-employed, small businesses and partnerships is a deduction of 20% of net income. The bill proposes to make the Qualified Business Income Deduction permanent and increase the deduction to 23% of net business income. When Will These Changes Take Effect?The proposed legislation has not passed and will not impact your 2024 taxes that you file this year. If and when tax laws change, TurboTax will be up to date with the latest tax laws when the IRS issues guidance. TurboTax has you covered and has the tools, products, and expertise to help you easily and accurately file your taxes and save money, whether you want to do your taxes yourself, get help along the way, or fully hand your taxes over. You can hand your taxes off to a TurboTax Live Full Service tax expert who can do your taxes from start to finish virtually or in person. You may still need to file your 2024 taxes and may be holding off on filing your 2024 taxes after hearing about all of the various tax proposals and uncertainty around if and when they will pass. There is no reason to delay filing since these are only tax proposals and do not impact your 2024 taxes. With the average refund being close to $3,000 don’t delay. TurboTax can help you easily and accurately file your taxes whether you want to do your taxes yourself, want help along the way, or you want to fully hand them over to a TurboTax Live expert so you can get closer to your tax refund. Check back with the TurboTax blog for the most up to date information on tax law changes. Previous Post How the Social Security Fairness Act Boosts Benefits for Public… Next Post Arkansas Champions NIL State Tax Exemptions: What This Means for… Written by Lisa Greene-Lewis Lisa has over 20 years of experience in tax preparation. Her success is attributed to being able to interpret tax laws and help clients better understand them. She has held positions as a public auditor, controller, and operations manager. Lisa has appeared on the Steve Harvey Show, the Ellen Show, and major news broadcast to break down tax laws and help taxpayers understand what tax laws mean to them. For Lisa, getting timely and accurate information out to taxpayers to help them keep more of their money is paramount. More from Lisa Greene-Lewis Follow Lisa Greene-Lewis on Twitter. 66 responses to “President Trump’s Tax Proposals: Overtime Tax, Taxes on Tips, and Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Extension and More” Great Article! Reply Tax cuts on tips and overtime are crumbs on the banquet table of the super wealthy to distract from the HUGE cuts for those in the highest current tax bracket that will cost the rest of us TRILLIONS in tax revenues to run the government and will therefore add to our bloating national debt. We need a more progressive income tax system to tax those super wealthy who have already accumulated so much that they can buy the politicians they want. A democracy cannot function when there is such a huge disparity between the rich and the poor. Reply No tax on tips No tax on overtime These are carrots dangling to the Lower income group and will never happen No tax on Social Security Half the people in this country pay no Federal taxes at all All these proposals are carrots for the gullible Just to gain votes Reply Hey Joe, Where you been? All politicians from all Parties have been doing this, like, forever. So, if this means that I can Stop paying 20% or more of my SS income back to whence it came, Then I will take a bite of that carrot. Maybe this should be voluntary. That way, folks like you can ease your conscience by doing the right thing and let the government give the $$ to folks who need it more than you. Reply Thank you for a clear and unbiased explanation of the proposed tax changes for 2025. Hoping these will benefit seniors like me. Reply Thank you for the update Reply The other parts are just distractions. They’re going to use the lowered taxes on corporations and the ultra rich to milk the country dry. Shame on you for trying to act like lower taxes on giant corporations is most likely to benefit people. Reply You really have no clue as to who creates job, builds and funds thousands of non profit organizations. Donates more money than any other group and by the way pays more taxes as a group than we ever do. I think anything Trump can do to encourage them to spend more money is a great idea. Think about it. Reply You’ve been drinking the “trickle-down” koolaid haven’t you? I wish it were true. I bought into it for many years. Unfortunately, the numbers aren’t there. Trickle-down . . . the premise that the big corporations that benefit the most will reinvest those tax savings into the economy is a myth. Corporations feed those tax savings back to their top executives and share holders. If you’re not in that club . . . you will receive no benefit. But you will get to help shoulder the tax burden gap left behind. Absolutely not! Trickle down never works. Never. The poor get poorer and the rich get richer when the most wealthy get the tax breaks. You’re absolutely correct, the bulk of these don’t help anyone other than rich people. “Lower corporate income tax rates could mean corporations have more money to reinvest and expand their businesses.” Well, they ‘could’ do a lot of things with that money, like raise worker wages or hire more workers, but it’s more likely they would just increase dividends for their shareholders (rich people) and continue to lay off workers (the working class). Reply Excellent blog with fair and balanced information, and no TDS. Reply Intuit simply reported the facts of possible 2025 changes to tax regulations. The company, its management, and the author of the article should be complimented and praised for reporting the news without editorial comments. Readers of the article can supply their own commentary. Reply “Trump is proposing to lower the top individual income tax rate from 37% to 33%. ” This means nothing to most of us since we are not in top individual income tax rate. It would be far more helpful to address the tax change for all brackets. Reply 👍 Reply Good information for better understanding tax law! 👍 Reply Thank you Reply This reads as a puff piece for the Trump administration. So, lower corporate rates could mean they reinvest in their businesses. Is that what happened last time with the tax cuts? No mention of the stock buybacks corporations did with all that extra money. Why even bring up the tax cuts on tips, overtime or social security? Why not just say “There are other proposals that may lower your income, but we will cover that when they happen”. There is no room in the current budget proposal to accommodate those extra tax deductions. It is, and was, an empty campaign promise. Reply Great article Thanks Reply Thank you for this unexpected great article which was easy to ready and understand. Reply Thank you for clarification. Reply I am hoping they stop taxing our Social Security benefits. Reply I am hoping they remove the tax on Social Security. Reply Just so you know , military does not get overtime pay, ever. Military is all salary so ing you work 50 hours a week or 100 you get same paycheck in military. Often, people think military also is “tax free” not true, military pays state , federal , security and medical tax . The only exceptions are if you are in a combat zone then a limited amount of base pay is tax exempt per month. Reply Military personnel do not receive overtime. Reply None of those proposals will ever even be brought to the floor with a republican-lead congress – unless, of course, it benefits billionaires or corporations lol Reply GREAT INFORMATION AND EASY TO UNDERSTAND. THANK YOU/11 Reply Lisa, no matter how much lipstick gets put on the Trump tax changes, they still help rich people at the expense of the rest of us, and it’s annoying to read this article which just glosses over how BAD his tax wish list is. Reply why do you waste my time with dumb ass stuff that trump says? Most of what he says is either a lie or a con job. Reply Thank you for this information I would like to leave a comment to be forwarded to your superiors. I’ve used turbo tax for years but this year was a disappointment to me. Why did turbo tax go up so significantly to file our taxes. I will look to other sources to save money at the onset. Very disappointed in this ridiculous increase. Brenda Dent Reply Thanks Lisa, This is a very informative article! These type of articles are very helpful to busy people. It’s nice to get a good and honest overview, especially in an age of so many changes! I have used Turbo Tax for years and depend on the dedicated professionals to provide a good computer software application. AI and software applications do not replace well written articles. Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication. Reply Nice job from Rick of Vermont, CPA Reply This well-written explanation of proposed changes in U.S. tax laws is immensely helpful to a senior person. Thank you to Lisa and TurboTax. Reply The big worry is Social Security. DOGE’s random layoffs appear to try to have it collapse under the pressure of not enough staff and the baby boom. The Oligarchs don’t want the limit raised on how much a person pays into SS each year and young people already believe it wont be available to them, so why invest in it for their grandparents. HHS tries to dissuade us from taking vaccines and to further medical research: they want the baby boom g to die quicker. Reply TL-DR: Trump hasn’t yet delivered any of the tax reductions he promised, and we needed a 10k word article to point that out. Reply That article was pure propaganda and gaslighting. No, cutting corporate tax means taxing the poor more. We are not all stupid. Reply very helpful….thank you Reply Good summary. This helps come to the conclusion to oppose the Trump tax plan. With the exception of the family caregiver credit and the exemption on tip taxes, these overwhelmingly benefit high earners, with nothing or little for others. Reply In the midst of high inflation and rising medical and living costs, retireess are being hurt by mandating Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) be taken from Traditional IRAs.401(k)s. RMDs should be stopped permanently to eliminate unfair taxation and preserve assets for future catastrophic and high medical and living costs. You should only have to withdraw what you need today! Reply excellent article. Needed to know what tax extension would look like Reply No Tax on Soc Security is the dumbest phony idea of all. I’m 77 been on it for 13 yrs & happy to pay 85% deal. I was an AARP volunteer Tax Prep, and do taxes for LOW INCOME seniors. One nice older lady had $25k SS plus $15k Pension & Int. The SS taxable was $1250 plus the $15k or $16250 AGI, but the Standard Deduction is $16500. NO TAX DUE. Seniors get nothing. We get $71k and would save $13,200. High End earner retirees who get $4018 monthly would net $30k. It’s a SHAM for the rich, But Seniors Will Love the idea. and that’s dumb. Reply Thank you Lisa. A well written concise overview of the proposed changes. Reply In am confused. Instead of describing the proposed Trump tax cuts, you seem to be promoting them. I thought Turbo Tax was a non-partisan organization. You may lose a lot of customers if you become a mouthpiece for the current administration. Reply This was very informative and I appreciate the information. It is comforting to know that Turbo Tax is keeping us informed and up to date. Reply BEST EXPLANATION I HAVE HEARD ON TAX PROPOSALS. I have yet to find an explanation th at is as well defined as Lisa’s. Well done. Reply Thank you for this alert! Reply Lisa, active duty military member DO NOT collect overtime pay. Reply Thank You for an honest, non political explanation. Reply This entire article sounds like a glowing recommendation for all things Trump, and it makes me want to never use your products again. Reply Wow, thanks for the Trump add. Reply This article is a nice summary, though it does not mention the impact on the National deficit, which is problematic, or the quid pro quo. Reply This is the most comprehensive report I have read regarding recent tax law proposals. Thank you for a concise unbiased presentation of the facts. Reply Thank you, Lisa!! Reply WOW, NICE SUMMARY LISA. THANK YOU!! Reply Trump gave tax cuts, ya. but retired pension and SSI and same amount year over year. my tax rate went from 18% to a jumping 25%. some tax break!?! Reply An excellent rundown on possible tax changes. Great job! Reply This is a lot of BS for the fact that the bottom 90% of the country if gonna have higher taxes. You can try and spin it to sound like people will be better off but only the rich are benefiting from these changes. Reply This is great! I’ve never seen a TurboTax article as such before. Not sure how I got on the mailing list. Keep em coming. Reply Well written. Very understandable and informative. Reply Lisa, You left a couple of clarifying items out – “Lower the corporate income tax rate: Lower corporate income tax rates could mean corporations have more money to reinvest and expand their businesses.” You failed to include what usually happens….”or pay their CEOs more while keeping general worker salaries the same” Elimination of the Estate Tax: Also known as the “death tax”, would be eliminated, which could have significant implications for large estates. – Why be shy?? Why not state the amount – “which applies to estates worth over $13,990,000” I’m sure that no one who would qualify for these benefits uses Turbo Tax for their individual returns, but it may be helpful information to include. Reply I don’t usually read Turbotax FYIs but this was very helpful. I also found it extremely clear and targetted at current at well as future concerns. Very well written Lisa. Reply Thank you that was helpful Reply Thanks very much for clear and concise description of these many proposals! Important to share that these are potential future regs NOT affecting current filing! KUDOS! Reply Lisa, You do not look old enough to have 20 years of experience. 🙂 Reply Well done TurboTax….this article is clear, concise, well written and understandable. Lisa Greene-Lewis deserves a raise for making complex tax issues easy to understand. Hats off to TurboTax for hiring her…. Reply Thank you for the information. Very concise and easily understood. Reply Leave a ReplyCancel reply Browse Related Articles Tax Reform Tax Reform 2017 Bill Finalized: Here’s What Goes to Vote For 2018 Taxes Tax Law Changes How Will Proposed Tax Legislation Affect You? Tax Reform Tax Reform Legislation 2017: What You Should Know Taxes 101 What Is a Personal Exemption & Should You Use It? 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Tax cuts on tips and overtime are crumbs on the banquet table of the super wealthy to distract from the HUGE cuts for those in the highest current tax bracket that will cost the rest of us TRILLIONS in tax revenues to run the government and will therefore add to our bloating national debt. We need a more progressive income tax system to tax those super wealthy who have already accumulated so much that they can buy the politicians they want. A democracy cannot function when there is such a huge disparity between the rich and the poor. Reply
No tax on tips No tax on overtime These are carrots dangling to the Lower income group and will never happen No tax on Social Security Half the people in this country pay no Federal taxes at all All these proposals are carrots for the gullible Just to gain votes Reply
Hey Joe, Where you been? All politicians from all Parties have been doing this, like, forever. So, if this means that I can Stop paying 20% or more of my SS income back to whence it came, Then I will take a bite of that carrot. Maybe this should be voluntary. That way, folks like you can ease your conscience by doing the right thing and let the government give the $$ to folks who need it more than you. Reply
Thank you for a clear and unbiased explanation of the proposed tax changes for 2025. Hoping these will benefit seniors like me. Reply
The other parts are just distractions. They’re going to use the lowered taxes on corporations and the ultra rich to milk the country dry. Shame on you for trying to act like lower taxes on giant corporations is most likely to benefit people. Reply
You really have no clue as to who creates job, builds and funds thousands of non profit organizations. Donates more money than any other group and by the way pays more taxes as a group than we ever do. I think anything Trump can do to encourage them to spend more money is a great idea. Think about it. Reply
You’ve been drinking the “trickle-down” koolaid haven’t you? I wish it were true. I bought into it for many years. Unfortunately, the numbers aren’t there. Trickle-down . . . the premise that the big corporations that benefit the most will reinvest those tax savings into the economy is a myth. Corporations feed those tax savings back to their top executives and share holders. If you’re not in that club . . . you will receive no benefit. But you will get to help shoulder the tax burden gap left behind.
Absolutely not! Trickle down never works. Never. The poor get poorer and the rich get richer when the most wealthy get the tax breaks.
You’re absolutely correct, the bulk of these don’t help anyone other than rich people. “Lower corporate income tax rates could mean corporations have more money to reinvest and expand their businesses.” Well, they ‘could’ do a lot of things with that money, like raise worker wages or hire more workers, but it’s more likely they would just increase dividends for their shareholders (rich people) and continue to lay off workers (the working class). Reply
Intuit simply reported the facts of possible 2025 changes to tax regulations. The company, its management, and the author of the article should be complimented and praised for reporting the news without editorial comments. Readers of the article can supply their own commentary. Reply
“Trump is proposing to lower the top individual income tax rate from 37% to 33%. ” This means nothing to most of us since we are not in top individual income tax rate. It would be far more helpful to address the tax change for all brackets. Reply
This reads as a puff piece for the Trump administration. So, lower corporate rates could mean they reinvest in their businesses. Is that what happened last time with the tax cuts? No mention of the stock buybacks corporations did with all that extra money. Why even bring up the tax cuts on tips, overtime or social security? Why not just say “There are other proposals that may lower your income, but we will cover that when they happen”. There is no room in the current budget proposal to accommodate those extra tax deductions. It is, and was, an empty campaign promise. Reply
Just so you know , military does not get overtime pay, ever. Military is all salary so ing you work 50 hours a week or 100 you get same paycheck in military. Often, people think military also is “tax free” not true, military pays state , federal , security and medical tax . The only exceptions are if you are in a combat zone then a limited amount of base pay is tax exempt per month. Reply
None of those proposals will ever even be brought to the floor with a republican-lead congress – unless, of course, it benefits billionaires or corporations lol Reply
Lisa, no matter how much lipstick gets put on the Trump tax changes, they still help rich people at the expense of the rest of us, and it’s annoying to read this article which just glosses over how BAD his tax wish list is. Reply
why do you waste my time with dumb ass stuff that trump says? Most of what he says is either a lie or a con job. Reply
Thank you for this information I would like to leave a comment to be forwarded to your superiors. I’ve used turbo tax for years but this year was a disappointment to me. Why did turbo tax go up so significantly to file our taxes. I will look to other sources to save money at the onset. Very disappointed in this ridiculous increase. Brenda Dent Reply
Thanks Lisa, This is a very informative article! These type of articles are very helpful to busy people. It’s nice to get a good and honest overview, especially in an age of so many changes! I have used Turbo Tax for years and depend on the dedicated professionals to provide a good computer software application. AI and software applications do not replace well written articles. Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication. Reply
This well-written explanation of proposed changes in U.S. tax laws is immensely helpful to a senior person. Thank you to Lisa and TurboTax. Reply
The big worry is Social Security. DOGE’s random layoffs appear to try to have it collapse under the pressure of not enough staff and the baby boom. The Oligarchs don’t want the limit raised on how much a person pays into SS each year and young people already believe it wont be available to them, so why invest in it for their grandparents. HHS tries to dissuade us from taking vaccines and to further medical research: they want the baby boom g to die quicker. Reply
TL-DR: Trump hasn’t yet delivered any of the tax reductions he promised, and we needed a 10k word article to point that out. Reply
That article was pure propaganda and gaslighting. No, cutting corporate tax means taxing the poor more. We are not all stupid. Reply
Good summary. This helps come to the conclusion to oppose the Trump tax plan. With the exception of the family caregiver credit and the exemption on tip taxes, these overwhelmingly benefit high earners, with nothing or little for others. Reply
In the midst of high inflation and rising medical and living costs, retireess are being hurt by mandating Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) be taken from Traditional IRAs.401(k)s. RMDs should be stopped permanently to eliminate unfair taxation and preserve assets for future catastrophic and high medical and living costs. You should only have to withdraw what you need today! Reply
No Tax on Soc Security is the dumbest phony idea of all. I’m 77 been on it for 13 yrs & happy to pay 85% deal. I was an AARP volunteer Tax Prep, and do taxes for LOW INCOME seniors. One nice older lady had $25k SS plus $15k Pension & Int. The SS taxable was $1250 plus the $15k or $16250 AGI, but the Standard Deduction is $16500. NO TAX DUE. Seniors get nothing. We get $71k and would save $13,200. High End earner retirees who get $4018 monthly would net $30k. It’s a SHAM for the rich, But Seniors Will Love the idea. and that’s dumb. Reply
In am confused. Instead of describing the proposed Trump tax cuts, you seem to be promoting them. I thought Turbo Tax was a non-partisan organization. You may lose a lot of customers if you become a mouthpiece for the current administration. Reply
This was very informative and I appreciate the information. It is comforting to know that Turbo Tax is keeping us informed and up to date. Reply
BEST EXPLANATION I HAVE HEARD ON TAX PROPOSALS. I have yet to find an explanation th at is as well defined as Lisa’s. Well done. Reply
This entire article sounds like a glowing recommendation for all things Trump, and it makes me want to never use your products again. Reply
This article is a nice summary, though it does not mention the impact on the National deficit, which is problematic, or the quid pro quo. Reply
This is the most comprehensive report I have read regarding recent tax law proposals. Thank you for a concise unbiased presentation of the facts. Reply
Trump gave tax cuts, ya. but retired pension and SSI and same amount year over year. my tax rate went from 18% to a jumping 25%. some tax break!?! Reply
This is a lot of BS for the fact that the bottom 90% of the country if gonna have higher taxes. You can try and spin it to sound like people will be better off but only the rich are benefiting from these changes. Reply
This is great! I’ve never seen a TurboTax article as such before. Not sure how I got on the mailing list. Keep em coming. Reply
Lisa, You left a couple of clarifying items out – “Lower the corporate income tax rate: Lower corporate income tax rates could mean corporations have more money to reinvest and expand their businesses.” You failed to include what usually happens….”or pay their CEOs more while keeping general worker salaries the same” Elimination of the Estate Tax: Also known as the “death tax”, would be eliminated, which could have significant implications for large estates. – Why be shy?? Why not state the amount – “which applies to estates worth over $13,990,000” I’m sure that no one who would qualify for these benefits uses Turbo Tax for their individual returns, but it may be helpful information to include. Reply
I don’t usually read Turbotax FYIs but this was very helpful. I also found it extremely clear and targetted at current at well as future concerns. Very well written Lisa. Reply
Thanks very much for clear and concise description of these many proposals! Important to share that these are potential future regs NOT affecting current filing! KUDOS! Reply
Well done TurboTax….this article is clear, concise, well written and understandable. Lisa Greene-Lewis deserves a raise for making complex tax issues easy to understand. Hats off to TurboTax for hiring her…. Reply