Senate Tax Plan and Gold
Friday, November 10, 2017
by Arkadiusz Sieron of Sunshine Profits
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Yesterday, the U.S. Senate tax cut plan was unveiled. What does it mean for the gold market?
As we
wrote on Thursday , the results of the 2017 U.S. one-off elections triggered some uncertainty about the tax reform prospects. The investors hopes were further reduced yesterday, as the U.S. Senate tax-cut bill was unveiled. As the proposal differs from the version of the House of Representatives, it may complicate Republican efforts to reform the U.S. tax code. We outline the main two differences between these two versions.
First, the Senate tax plan imposes a one-year delay on lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 to 20 percent, while the House bill cuts it immediately. It goes without saying that investors were disappointed that the entry of the U.S. tax bill into force may be delayed until 2019.
Second, the Senate plan would repeal the state and local tax deduction entirely, while the House bill would keep the deduction for property taxes. The Senate tries to offset revenue losses from the tax cuts, but its version may upset many voters.
Other key differences concern home mortgage interest deductions, the number of tax brackets, estate taxes, taxes paid by pass-through businesses, or popular tax credits and deductions (see the Hills article, which provides a nice
summary of major dissimilarities). It seems that most of the problems would be eliminated by introducing low flat taxes without deductions, but this is not going to happen.
And what is going to happen? Well, the price of gold increased amid uncertainty over U.S. tax reforms, and was on track for its first weekly rise in a month. With the Fed hike in December already baked into the price of gold, the yellow metal may shine now, at least for a while, unless hope in Trumps economic agenda or a more hawkish Fed is restored. Gold struggled both at the end of 2015 and 2016, but history does not have to repeat itself. Stay tuned!
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Arkadiusz Sieron, Ph.D.
Sunshine Profits Gold News Monitor and Market Overview Editor
Arkadiusz Sieron is a certified Investment Adviser. He is a long-time precious metals market enthusiast, currently a Ph.D. candidate, dissertation on the redistributive effects of monetary inflation (Cantillon effects). Arkadiusz is a free market advocate who believes in the power of peaceful and voluntary cooperation of people. He is an economist and board member at the Polish Mises Institute think tank. He is also a Laureate of the 6th International Vernon Smith Prize. Arkadiusz is the author of Sunshine Profits’ monthly Market Overview report and daily Gold News Monitors, in which he keeps subscribers up-to-date regarding key fundamental developments affecting the gold market and helps them prepare for the major changes.