Marco Rubio (Tax Reform)

Rubio's Tax Reform (section page)

• A Pro-Growth, Pro-Family Tax plan
  • Simplify the tax code to reduce the number of brackets from seven to three (MRWTR)
  • Unorthodoxically wants to keep the tax rate ~35% for the top household income earners (Politico)
  • Rubio plans to get rid of the tax burdens on dual earning married couples
  • Wants to repeal ObamaCare and all associated $1 trillion in taxes
  • Wants to create a partially refundable Child Tax credit of up to $2500 per child that phases out above an individual income of 150k and a joint income of 300k
  • Eliminates all itemized deductions and tax “extenders”
  • Charitable contribution deduction and mortgage interest deduction available for all
  • Implements a single $2500 universal tax incentive for post secondary education or job skill training under the 400-500% threshold of the federal party line (MRWTR)

• Businesses and Corporations
  • Marco Wants to cut taxes for small business to 25% down from the current tax rate of 35%
  • Wants to implement a tax credit to any business offering between four and twelve weeks of paid family leave
  • Rubio’s plan aims to allow for immediate expensing of capital expenditures
  • Wants to reduce the double taxation of corporations doing business overseas
  • Aims to eliminate the federal estate tax that penalizes family owned farms and businesses
  • Interest income would not be taxable (MRWTR)
  • Provides a transition period, which requires a one-time booking of investment at current law capital gains and dividend rates, minus the 3.8% investment tax hike from ObamaCare