Ryan Insists Tax Overhaul Coming as Koch Group Assails Plan

  • House Speaker says current tax code is ‘killing growth’
  • Americans For Prosperity will send message: Tax hurts shoppers

Border Adjustment Tax: Who Does It Help and Hurt?

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said he isn’t backing down on overhauling the tax code, as a group funded by Koch Industries Inc. laid out its campaign to derail a centerpiece of Ryan’s tax blueprint -- border-adjusted taxes.

“Do you know why tax reform is going to happen? Because it has to happen,” Ryan said at a press conference Thursday. “America has the worst tax code in the industrialized world -- it is killing economic growth, it is driving companies to become foreign companies.”