U.S. Businesses on Alert for House Republicans’ Finished Tax Plan

  • Research and advertising costs are targeted in 2014 bill draft
  • Congress wants to broaden tax base to offset rate cuts

Republicans Push Year-End Tax Reform Timeline

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House tax writers have completed about 90 percent of the tax bill they plan to release this week, Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady said Monday -- but the last part may be the hardest.

Members of the tax-writing committee were working behind closed doors on proposals to raise revenue that would help offset the deep tax-rate cuts that President Donald Trump and congressional leaders have proposed, said Representative Vern Buchanan, a Florida Republican.