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As businesses get ready for the 2025 tax fight, they’re revving up to push for the return of a bigger tax break for research and development spending.

Ron Estes talks R&D and the 2025 tax fight

As businesses get ready for the 2025 tax fight, they’re revving up to push for the return of a bigger tax break for research and development spending. The R&D benefit’s biggest boosters on Capitol Hill are getting ready to make the case for it too.

We sat down with Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kan.) – one of the Hill’s loudest backers of the R&D incentive and leader of the House GOP’s “innovation tax team” – for the latest installment in our series of Q&A’s on the tax debate ahead.

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