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 Trump's campaign has scheduled a news conference for 11 a.m. on
Monday in New York to announce a tax policy it said would offer "a
major tax reduction for almost all citizens and corporations, in
particular, those in the middle and lower income classes."
Pressed about the specific numbers during an interview on CBS' "60
Minutes" on Sunday, Trump said: "I will say this, there will be a
large segment of our country that will have a zero rate, a zero
rate. And that's something I haven't told anybody."
Trump added he was talking about "people in the low-income brackets
that are supposed to be paying taxes, many of them don't anyway."
Saying the middle class was "being absolutely decimated," Trump
promised middle-income earners would get a substantial tax cut under
his plan. He added his corporate tax reduction would be "a great
incentive" for companies.
Asked on whom he would increase taxes, Trump, a billionaire real
estate mogul, said: "Some very wealthy are going to be raised. Some
people that are getting unfair deductions are going to be raised."
"I'm a pretty good Republican," added Trump when asked about the
party's general opposition to tax increases. "But I will tell you
this, I do have some differences. I don't want to have certain
people on Wall Street getting away with paying no tax."
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In an interview last month on CBS' "Face the Nation," Trump said
that under the current tax system, many hedge fund managers were
"getting away with murder" by not paying their fair share of taxes.
His overall tax plan, Trump told "60 Minutes" was "going to be a
tremendous incentive to grow the economy and we're going to take in
the same or more money."
(Reporting by Peter Cooney; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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