James Lankford will replace the income tax with a consumption tax through the FairTax plan.

James Lankford · Oklahoma · Republican

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Occurrences

I propose changing our system from taxing income to taxing consumption with the FairTax.

He proposes replacing income-based taxation with a consumption tax under FairTax.

James Lankford on Tax Reform
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Evidence

The official press-release archive's most recent visible entry is dated April 29, 2026 and concerns an anti-fraud package; a page search found no FairTax or IRS mention in the visible archive.

No FairTax-related official release is visible in the current archive, and the latest visible item is outside the 30-day lookback.

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Press Releases - Senator James Lankford
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The Senate's current assignments page places Lankford on the Finance Committee and its Taxation and IRS Oversight subcommittee. That is active tax-policy work, but the page shows no FairTax sponsorship or movement toward replacing the income tax.

Current official committee work is tax-related but does not show FairTax delivery.

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Committee Assignments of the 119th Congress
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Assessments

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The promised outcome was not achieved: the federal income tax was not replaced with a national consumption tax, and FairTax legislation never became law. Lankford did make a serious legislative effort by cosponsoring the Senate FairTax bill S.155 in the 114th Congress on April 23, 2015, but that bill was only introduced and referred to committee; later FairTax bills also remained at the introduced stage. Because the outcome never occurred, this is a failed delivery rather than partial or later-term fulfillment.

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