Republicans Go There: Jacking the Tax
Up on University Endowments UPDATE
Posted By: sunset, 2/27/2025 11:38:54 AM
Congressional Republicans must really be feeling their oats, and it is long past the time they did. No one thought Speaker Johnson would manage to get a budget resolution through and that the Senate had one-upped up with theirs, even though Trump preferred the House version. What got lost in all the budget excitement was a bill Republicans had previously introduced. As presented by Rep Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22), the beautifully named Endowment Tax Fairness Act would raise the tax on the endowments of private schools that were sitting on cash hoards of $500K per student or more from 1.4% to 21%.
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They revised it to 14% in reconciliation but made it apply more broadly.