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Law Firms, Partners Await Answers on Trump Tax Plan

By Christine Simmons
November 02, 2017

Will big law firms and their partners benefit from the new Republican tax plan promoted by President Donald Trump? See, “Trump Proposes the Most Sweeping Tax Overhaul in Decades,” New York Times. Not necessarily, according to tax experts who say some gains may be eroded by loss of crucial deductions.

The one thing tax experts all agree on is that the proposed framework is very short on details and not clear enough to make any conclusions.

In one of its general statements, the framework said it would limit the maximum tax rate applied to the business income of small and family-owned businesses conducted as sole proprietorships, partnerships and S corporations — known as pass through entities — to 25%.

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