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Beverly Moran, Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University

Trump’s 2017 tax cuts expire soon − study shows they made income inequality worse and especially hurt Black Americans

President Donald Trump arrives at the White House after passing the Tax Cut and Jobs Act on Dec. 20, 2017. AP Photo/Evan Vucci

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a set of tax cuts Donald Trump signed into law during his first term as president, will expire on Dec. 31, 2024. As Trump and Republicans prepare to negotiate new tax cuts in 2025, it’s worth gleaning lessons from the president-elect’s first set of cuts.

The 2017 cuts were the most extensive revision to the Internal Revenue Code since the Ronald Reagan administration. The changes it imposed range from the tax that corporations pay on their foreign income to limits on the deductions individuals can take for their state and local tax payments.

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