Trump wants to lower debts for the rich by saving them $ 100 billions

The Trump administration is exploring a plan to reduce capital gains taxes on 100 billion dollars over 10 years due to inflation factoring, reports New York Times.

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in an interview on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Argentina that his department was exploring whether it could independently make rules - without Congress - allowing Americans to take inflation into account when determining their capital gains tax liability.

The Treasury Department can redefine the “cost” to calculate capital gains, allowing taxpayers to adjust the initial value of an asset, such as a house or a share, to account for inflation when they sell them.

“If it can't be done through the legislative process, we'll look at what tools at Treasury we should provide on our own, and we'll look at that,” Mnuchin told the newspaper, saying he wasn't sure his department had the authority to go it alone. “We're looking at it internally, and we're also looking at the economic costs and the impact on growth.”

Capital gains tax is determined by subtracting the original price of the asset from the price at which it was sold, and the difference is generally taxed at the level of 20 percent.

If someone spent 100 000 dollars per share in 1980, and sold it for 1 a million dollars today, he or she had to pay taxes in 900 000 dollars.

But if the original purchase price was adjusted for inflation, it would be around 300 000 US dollars, reducing taxable profits to 700 000 dollars, saving 40 000 dollars to the investor.

This step is likely to cause controversy and push the Democrats to the fact that the Republican Party is only concerned about enriching the rich.

The administration of President George W. Bush rejected a similar move in the 1992 year, after concluding that the Treasury was unable to make changes unilaterally.

Capital gains taxes are actually paid by the richest Americans, and they remain unchanged in tax laws, signed Trump last year.

Liberal economists have said that they benefit little from this.

“It would be a very generous addition to the tax cuts they've already made for the very rich,” said Alexandra Thornton, senior director of tax policy at the liberal Center for American Progress.

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