Good Wednesday morning, I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by BP.

And I'm Jake Sherman. The big news of the morning is Republicans will not roll out their tax bill today and instead will wait until Thursday.

They're working on unresolved issues. They're trying to fit a lot of tax cuts into a small bill, in essence.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that House Republicans

will preserve the top individual tax rate of 39.6%. Our colleagues are also reporting that, and they're

also reporting that Ryan told conservatives yesterday the income threshold would be higher than it is now,

putting that between $750,000 and a million dollars. He said the estate tax would be repealed but might have to

be phased out to save money in the short term unresolved items include the salt tax how to ensure

wealthy individuals don't take advantage of the lower 25% small business rate and what to do about

401k retirement plans ryan was also fuzzy on the timing for a one-time tax repatriation. We've got a new

Politico Morning Consult poll up this morning that shows voters like tax reform, but are cool to a

corporate rate cut. Forty-eight percent of registered voters who responded to the poll said they

strongly support or somewhat support the overall proposal based on what they knew about it compared to

37% who opposed it. But a key part of the plan, lowering the corporate tax rate to 20% from 35%

remains one of its least popular aspects. A plurality of respondents, 41%, said it shouldn't be part of

tax legislation compared to 39% who said it should.

Let's talk about what this delay means. It's not that big of a deal. Republicans want you to believe that, and it's somewhat true.

Massive bills, and this one will be 1,000 plus pages, are hard and they take time.

Tax reform is not a walk in the park. This is only going to get harder.

Remember, we haven't seen a single detail yet, not one.

The delay helps highlight that this is a long, arduous, and tricky process.

And here's an important reminder.

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