Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 66

Cut the corporate tax rate to 15 percent

Partial
“[paraphrase] Lower the business tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent.”
Promised
, Campaign tax plan and Economic Club of New York speech
Re-promised
12 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Taxes & deficit
Era
2016 campaign

What happened

The December 2017 law cut the corporate rate to 21 percent, not the promised 15 percent. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise on December 20, 2017. The estate tax was likewise not eliminated; the exemption was roughly doubled instead.

Sources

  1. Lower the business tax rate PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Dec 20, 2017
  2. Eliminate the estate tax PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Dec 20, 2017