
Overtime Income Tax Break: Not Illogical, Just Costly and Complicated
Last month, former President Donald Trump declared, “If you’re an overtime worker, when you’re past 40 hours a week . . . your overtime hours will be tax-free.”
Last month, former President Donald Trump declared, “If you’re an overtime worker, when you’re past 40 hours a week . . . your overtime hours will be tax-free.”
The Trump-Vance and Harris-Walz presidential campaigns have each recently proposed large expansions to the child tax credit (CTC). Both proposals might be intended to appeal to similar voters, but they vary significantly regarding budgetary cost, distribution of benefits, and effect on work incentives.
Earlier this week, Vice President Kamala Harris, campaigning in Nevada, endorsed exempting tips from the individual income tax. This follows former President Donald Trump’s proposal last month to do the same.
While the details of future federal legislation and executive actions to legalize, regulate, and tax cannabis remain unknown, such policies could have significant impacts on the federal budget.
In July, MGA CEO Alex Brill submitted a comment letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) expressing concerns about their newly released interim report.