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With the approval of the Senate tax bill in the early hours of Saturday 2 December, a key step has been taken toward tax cuts. The next chapter in the process is to reconcile this version with the House of Representatives’ tax bill, most likely in a ‘conference committee ’ from which a final version will emerge. Various lobbies have been taken by surprise by the speed with which tax legislation has moved forward in...

Approval of the Senate tax bill paves the way for a final congressional bill that leads to tax cuts. Although unchanged, we now see some upside risks to our 2018-19 scenario for US growth and inflation. With the approval of the Senate tax bill in the early hours of Saturday 2 December, a key step has been taken toward tax cuts. The next chapter in the process is to reconcile this tax bill with the House of Representatives’ version, most likely in a...