Hi, it's Congressman ███████████ at ███████████. I'm calling to invite you to join a live tax day telephone town hall I'm holding right now to talk about the improvements Utahns will see on their returns this year and address any questions you have. To stay on the line to be connected. Please hold while we connect you to your access live event. This access live event is currently in progress please note that this call may be monitored, recorded or rebroadcast. Before that you may have missed you can always do that you can check our YouTube page or our website and tonight as we kind of get kicked off here to enter the question queue please as a reminder hit star 3 at star 3 for questions and star 6 to join our newsletter which I believe is our best way to communicate with you all a weekly newsletter that kind of talks about what some areas we're up to what legislation we're running highlighting things from the district and so on. So today it's been a very busy day we've had a lot going on I've been involved in some really exciting things and I'd like to share that with you most importantly it is tax day and I wanted to host this town hall today so we could talk about why this year is so unique and significant. You heard me talk about this many times before but we had a significant tax reform bill passed last ████████ nine months ago. In ████. There was a significant pro-growth tax reform effort that was successful it's commonly known commonly referred to as Trump tax cuts but this is a this is a moment then there was congressional Republicans that were in control of the White House House and Senate sorry house and senate and over the White House so the official name is the tax cuts and jobs act from ████. And we've had eight years or so to monitor that. Understand how that impacted the economy what it did to tax revenues and and the like and it's it's a very successful run and it was it most of everything in that tax reform piece was going to be was going to expire at the end of the year. On ████████████████ if we didn't get that bill done last summer and so what we did in that. And that's the in that effort and this was a Republican only effort there was many provisions. That I think are incredibly bipartisan but it was something that Democrats were just they made it very clear they wanted Republicans to go alone at this one you know some significant spending cuts as well that have proven to be and will continue to be very very productive ways to reduce waste and things like that but the tax portion of it is. It would have been much different tax day I'll say this if we hadn't accomplished that and got that done last last July and I've joked before in Congress as you rightfully probably accuse Congress everything gets done at the last minute or the midnight deadline and we got the. Tax reform done made it permanent on so many levels we got it done six months prior to the actual deadline or what I would have used a major crisis if we hadn't have gotten that done before █████████████ but we did it six months prior and many of the provisions were retroactive into the ████ year so you are able to take advantage of those on this year's taxes. Because they would have it would have gone up significantly had we not gotten that build up. Child tax credit would have gone back