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Trump Says He’s Thinking About Indexing Capital Gains to Inflation

Policy change would index capital gains to inflation
Treasury studying if it can bypass Congress and issue rule

Trump Says He's Considering Indexing Capital Gains to Inflation

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By John Micklethwait, Margaret Talev, and Jennifer Jacobs

August 30, 2018 at 8:22 PM UTC

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August 30, 2018 at 9:46 PM UTC

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President Donald Trump said he’s considering a capital gains tax break by issuing a regulation that would index gains to inflation.

“There are a lot of people that love it and some people that don’t,” Trump said Thursday in an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg News. “But I’m thinking about it very strongly.”