Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 67

Cut the number of income tax brackets

Never delivered
“[paraphrase] Reduce the seven tax brackets to three and simplify the code so most Americans can file on a single page.”
Promised
, Campaign tax plan
Re-promised
5 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Taxes & deficit
Era
2016 campaign

What happened

The final 2017 law kept seven brackets, changing only the rates and thresholds. PolitiFact rated the promise broken on December 20, 2017.

Sources

  1. Cut the number of tax brackets PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Dec 20, 2017