
Tracking 2025 Tax Legislation

REFRESHER: TAX CUTS AND JOBS ACT (TCJA) OF 2017
- TCJA was passed via budget reconciliation and signed into law in December 2017
- Many changes to tax code that impacted
– Income tax rates, deductions, and exemptions; gift and estate taxes; business taxes; and much more
- Most of its provisions went into effect on January 1, 2018, and are scheduled to expire on January 1, 2026
POTENTIAL 2025 LEGISLATION: “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL” BILL
Current and Projected Legislative Timeline:

House Tax Bill Key Individual Tax Proposals:
- Extends individual income tax rates and brackets (certain exceptions for the 37% bracket)
- Increases limit for state and local tax (SALT) deduction to $40,000 (subject to MAGI phasedown)
- Increases estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) exemptions to $15 million
- Increases qualified business income deduction to 23%
- Renews the qualified opportunity zone program
SUBTITLE A: INDIVIDUAL TAX POLICY (PROPOSED HOUSE TAX BILL)
Permanent Extensions: The following provisions of TCJA would be made permanent by the proposed bill and include some additional changes.

SUBTITLE A: INDIVIDUAL TAX POLICY (PROPOSED HOUSE TAX BILL)
Permanent Extensions (continued): The following provisions of TCJA would be made permanent by the proposed bill and include some additional changes.

SUBTITLE B: BUSINESS TAX POLICY (PROPOSED HOUSE TAX BILL)
TCJA Extensions: The following provisions of TCJA would be extended by the proposed bill and include some additional changes.

SUBTITLE C: PAY-FORS (PROPOSED HOUSE TAX BILL)
Subtitle C contains provisions for Revenue Raisers (Part 1), Tax Credit Eligibility (Part 2), and Improper Payments and Recapture of Excess Premium Tax Credits (Part 3) — some key provisions are below:
- Changes to clean energy tax provisions (Part 1, Sections 112001 to 112016)
- Changes to tax rules for foundations, colleges, universities, and other tax-exempt organizations (Part 1, Sections 112020–112025)
- Net operating losses for pass-throughs (Part 1, Section 112026)
- Employee retention tax credit (Part 3, Section 112205)
- Earned income tax credit (Part 3, Section 112206)
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