WASHINGTON — NAFCU executives have been assured by members of Senator John McCain's (R-Ariz.) campaign staff that the Senator would not support taxing credit unions should he be elected President. McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee.
We have assurances from McCain's top people that the senator fully supports the credit union tax exemption," said NAFCU Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Dan Berger.
A March 3 Wall Street Journal article that described in detail the senator's tax proposals left the impression that the credit union tax exemption may be in jeopardy if McCain were elected president. The Journal reported that McCain had embraced a Treasury report from last summer that included the credit union tax exemption on a list of tax preferences that could be eliminated to reduce the corporate income tax.
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