President Donald Trump said he’s “very seriously” considering a capital gains tax cut, a move he decided against last September after saying that it wouldn’t do enough to help the middle class, Bloomberg News reported. “We’re looking at also considering a capital gains tax cut, which would create a lot more jobs,” Trump said yesterday. The president can’t unilaterally cut the 20 percent long-term capital gains rate without Congress, but some advisers tell him he could issue an executive order that would slash tax bills for investors when they sell assets. The move, known as indexing capital gains to inflation, adjusts the original purchase price of an asset when it is sold so no tax is paid on appreciation tied to inflation. Revamping capital gains taxes through a rule or executive order likely would face legal challenges, a concern that reportedly prompted former President George H.W. Bush’s administration to drop a similar plan.
