March 19, 2026
The Capital Gains Inflation Relief Act of 2025 is just as unpopular as similar bills Sen. Cruz introduced in 2018 and 2021, neither of which passed. Steve Wamhoff of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in 2019, “sounds logical until you think about it.” The legal and economic considerations haven’t changed since then.
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