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Cut the corporate income tax rate to 18 percent

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 22, p. 696. Written by William L. Walton, Stephen Moore, David R. Burton.

Cut the corporate income tax rate to 18 percent

The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: legislationp. 696 in the PDF
What the document says

“The corporate income tax rate should be reduced to 18 percent.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 696

The chapter calls the corporate income tax the most damaging tax in the system and says its primary economic burden falls on workers because capital is more mobile than labor.

What the document actually says

“The corporate income tax rate should be reduced to 18 percent.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 696
That sentence, in plain words

Cut the tax on company profits to 18 percent.

What this is about

Firms pay tax on their profits. The book says that tax hurts workers most. It wants the rate cut to 18 percent.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. No indexed action changes the corporate income tax rate. The 2025 tax law (PL 119-21) rewrites much of business taxation, including full expensing and the international rules, but it carries no rate change, and none of the candidates here reaches the rate. The nearest, memo-2025-02043, concerns the OECD global minimum tax rather than the domestic rate. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 696.
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    “Cut the corporate income tax rate to 18 percent,” Project 2025, chapter 22, p. 696. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch22-corporate-rate-18/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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