ATA commends House of Representatives for passing tax reform

Nov. 21, 2017
American Trucking Associations commends House of Representatives for passing tax reform

The American Trucking Associations issued the following statement commending the US House of Representatives’ passage of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.”

“We applaud the House for passing the first major tax reform legislation in three decades, a bill that will enhance the US economy by encouraging business investment and producing good-paying American jobs,” said ATA President and Chief Executive Officer Chris Spear.

“As the employer of more than seven million American workers and an industry that moves seventy percent of the nation’s freight, the trucking industry knows full well how simplifying our nation’s onerous tax code will get our economy moving ahead at full speed.”

ATA Chairman Dave Manning, president of TCW Inc, Nashville TN, said: “We believe the three basic tenets embodied in the tax reform package—lowering tax rates on business income, broadening the tax base to render it more equitable, and simplifying the enormously complex tax code—will benefit all sectors of the trucking industry represented by the ATA. That includes not only large fleets, but the 97% of the industry made up of small businesses that operate fewer than 20 trucks.”

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