Tax policy bill aims to offset high inflation, punish China, Russia; GOP evokes families, businesses

House Republicans have assembled a $237 billion tax cut package with a bevy of provisions to bolster the economy and offset the impact of 40-year-high inflation on Americans.

It includes increasing the standard deduction on income taxes, expanding opportunity zones, slapping an excise tax on property purchases linked to China and Russia, rolling back some requirements for reporting transactions to the Internal Revenue Service and restoring expired Trump-era business expense write-…

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