Posted on 07/16/2025 12:06:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Republican party is heralding its new tax legislation as a win for middle income Americans. But the most substantial tax savings in the bill is reserved for wealthy individuals across the country—and particularly in high-tax states like California and New York.
That’s because the legislation increases the deduction level for state and local taxes, also known as SALT. This allows federal taxpayers who itemize their deductions to fully deduct state and local income taxes as well as property taxes, and is most beneficial to wealthy taxpayers in states with a high cost of living and high tax rates—the ones who are in position to elect for itemizing over the standard deduction. To wit: while only 7% of taxpayers earning under $200,000 itemized deductions in 2022, 38% of taxpayers earning over $200,000 did, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC).
Under the 2017 tax bill passed under the first Trump administration, a cap was officially put on this deduction for the first time, limiting what taxpayers could deduct to $10,000. The cap is quadrupled under the new law, and now stands at $40,000. It begins to phase down for taxpayers making over $500,000.
Various analyses find that taxpayers in California, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York stand to benefit the most: They account for 40 of the 50 top congressional districts affected by the cap. And 13 of the top 15 are located in just California and New York, per BPC. The old cap primarily affected taxpayers making over $200,000 per year; those earning less than that “typically don’t pay enough SALT to be significantly affected by the $10,000 cap,” notes BPC. In fact, the bottom 80% of earners would see no benefit at all, according to the Tax Foundation.
(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...
Govenors Hochel, Newsome and Pritzker love it!
Thanks for posting, but you have the wrong year in the title. Should be 2026. How time flies.
I am all against higher SALT levels. Frugal states end up subsidizing wasteful states. No way to drain the swamp.
I clicked on the link again. Sure enough. The year is 2016.
Obviously, it's a typo.
Interesting is that the first time I read it, I saw it as 2026.
But Social Security is still taxed.
We have a lot of medical expenses these days, so itemizing our deductions is required to offset those. Once you’re itemizing anyway, because of medical or small business expenses, it is natural to deduct SALT.
Why should anyone here to pay taxes on taxes? I’m always amazed here by the animosity toward conservatives who happen to live in large Blue states.
“But Social Security is still taxed.”
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We can thank Ronald Reagan for that.
Capping the SALT deductions was one of the great conservative tax reform victories in the 1980’s. This is major backsliding, courtesy of a small group of Blue State Republicans who were prepared to play dog in the manger if they didn’t get the subsidy restored.
So ... eliminating the SALT deduction now goes back on the list as a conservative goal, if and when we elect a big enough majority to the House to get past the RINO extortion.
It goes away by 2030.
I read the Forbes article and 2016 is correct for the original legislation signed by Obama. When Trump took Office in 2017,then changes were made. Fast forward to 2025, BBB, etc etc, more changes that help the 1%. Don’t expect anything to really benefit We the Peasant... it’s getting quite untenable watching defacto “taxation by inflation” draining my very limited retirement income all by design.
10 was too low
in a modest home with modest salary in a low tax state
i was getting a 50% haircut
i would have been happy with 20
But Democrats and RINOs love the SALT caps.
And Joe Biden!
The extension will be a knife fight in 2030. And if the Democrats hold either House of Congress or the presidency, the odds strongly favor extension.
Trump will be gone, so that will remove one of the obstacles. The extension of Trump’s tax cuts was important, because before those were enacted, the U.S. had the highest corporate income taxes among the developed world — higher than the UK, France, Germany, even China. We were Uncle Stupid on taxes.
But the sellout on SALT deductions was a bitter pill to swallow. There’s no reason middle class people in Ohio, Nebraska or Tennessee should be subsidizing the very wealthy in California and New York.
The trip on it all?
Congress Critters represent their constituents, not these united States.
A Congress Critter from NY, CA, or IL that votes against SALT is gone. That’s how the spoils/grift system works.
To paraphrase:
A Constitutional Republic ends when folks realize they can vote to confiscate the wealth of their neighbors by force at the point of a Goobermint gun.
Even with this deduction, the people in both states will pay more federal tax per taxpayer than everyone else.
They will probably try to sneak in an budget reconciliation bill.
There's a chance that the Senate may be somewhat fiscally conservative because there will be more Senators from the red states and you have Senators like Rand Paul speaking out against it.
I’m cool with a deduction, but not a full tax credit.
The rest of the country should not pay your full state tax for you.
I can’t believe that the country has to collectively pay for California and New York rich people’s taxes and even their property taxes.
It is shocking that this is tolerated.
SS still taxed but partially offset by a 6000 dollar deduction. idk why they did it this way.
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