Former President Donald Trump said at a campaign rally Thursday that he would eliminate taxes on overtime pay if he wins a second term in November.
“I’m also announcing that as part of our additional tax cuts, we will end all taxes on overtime,” he said in Tucson, Arizona.
“That gives people more of an incentive to work. It gives the companies a lot — it’s a lot easier to get the people,” he added.
Trump said that when workers are past 40 hours a week, “your overtime hours will be tax free.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for details about the plan.
After the remarks, the Harris campaign called Trump’s proposal “his latest snake oil sales pitch.”
“No matter how much he lies now, Donald Trump’s record and agenda are clear — as president, he stole millions of dollars of wages from the workers he purports to represent,” said Harris campaign spokesperson Joseph Costello in a statement.
The Harris campaign also pointed to a 2019 Trump administration overtime pay rule that replaced a more expansive proposal pushed by the Obama administration.
Trump made the overtime tax-free pledge at his first rally since Tuesday’s debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, an event that drew more than 67 million viewers, according to Nielsen — a far larger audience than the Arizona crowd to which Trump unveiled his proposal.
The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act created a 40-hour workweek and overtime pay standards, as well as the right to a minimum wage. The law stipulated that workers covered by the law must get at least 1.5 times their regular pay rate for overtime hours.
The Biden administration implemented a rule this summer that raised the minimum salary threshold to qualify for time-and-a-half pay, which advocates said is helping improve compensation for lower-paid workers.
Trump in June called to end taxes on tips, with Harris following suit last month.
Separately, the Harris campaign has pushed for expanding the Child Tax Credit “to provide a $6,000 tax cut to families with newborn children,” according to its website, which adds that Harris is “committed to ensuring no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay more in taxes.”
