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The Trump Deduction: A simpler path to tax-free tips and overtime

The current version of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers on one of his core campaign promises – exempting tips and overtime pay from federal taxation. 

But he could score a victory on this promise in a more beautiful way by creating a new "Trump Tips and Overtime Deduction" that would be available exclusively to workers who receive tips or overtime pay. 

Tax-free tips and overtime are politically popular, but messy and problematic in almost every other way imaginable. 

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