Posted on 11/20/2017 4:42:05 PM PST by SkyPilot
The percentage of federal individual income tax filers claiming a deduction for state and local taxes paid in 2015, ranked by state:
1. Maryland: 45.7 percent
2. Connecticut: 41.3 percent
3. New Jersey: 41.2 percent
4. Virginia: 37.3 percent
5. Massachusetts: 36.9 percent
6. Oregon: 36.0 percent
7. Utah: 35.3 percent
8. Minnesota: 34.7 percent
9. New York: 34.5 percent
10. California: 34.4 percent
11. Georgia: 32.8 percent
12. Rhode Island: 32.8 percent
13. Colorado: 32.5 percent
14. Delaware: 31.6 percent
15. Illinois: 31.3 percent
16. Wisconsin: 31.0 percent
17. New Hampshire: 30.9 percent
18. Washington: 29.9 percent
19. Iowa: 29.5 percent
20. Hawaii: 29.1 percent
21. North Carolina: 29.0 percent
22. Pennsylvania: 28.6 percent
23. Arizona: 28.4 percent
24. Montana: 28.2 percent
25. Idaho: 28.0 percent
26. Maine: 27.6 percent
27. Nebraska: 27.6 percent
28. South Carolina: 27.3 percent
29. Vermont: 27.3 percent
30. Michigan: 26.5 percent
31. Missouri: 26.1 percent
32. Ohio: 26.1 percent
33. Kentucky: 26.0 percent
34. Alabama: 25.8 percent
35. Kansas: 25.5 percent
36. Nevada: 24.6 percent
37. Oklahoma: 24.0 percent
38. Mississippi: 23.3 percent
39. Louisiana: 23.0 percent
40. Texas: 22.8 percent
41. Indiana: 22.8 percent
42. Florida: 22.5 percent
43. New Mexico: 22.5 percent
44. Arkansas: 22.3 percent
45. Wyoming: 21.6 percent
46. Alaska: 21.4 percent
47. Tennessee: 19.3 percent
48. North Dakota: 18.5 percent
49. West Virginia: 17.0 percent
50. South Dakota: 16.9 percent
District of Columbia: 39.8 percent
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“it has exposed Freepers who are really closet liberals. “
Yes, you’ve come out of the closet with a bright shiny spotlight.
“Fine - raise the tax burden on middle class families then.”
We and the federal government didn’t raise the burden on those living in high tax States, you and your States did. You’re the ones who raised States taxes to ridiculous levels.
Why should we subsidize you by giving you federal tax breaks to keep the money in your States?
And tax deductions are not “subsidies.” I know you love that word. It perpetuates your newly discovered victim hood special status. Have you ever taken a tax deduction? Ever? I bet you have. Well, the rest of the country demands you return your “subsidy.”
I am a veteran. I don’t have to hide behind anyone.
Your inability to understand that the big tax your shirt off states have finally had their unfair deductions removed betrays your attack rational. The states in effect shifted state burden to the federal government
All Americans were not able to do thet. They were thus forced to take the burden of California and new York.
Good folks should abandon the two states and move to more hospitable states. Living in the liberal pig sty is a personal decision
All Americans who itemize are able to do that. Regardless of whether it's New York or Alabama, removing that deduction will lead to an increase in taxable income for many people. Mainly middle-class.
Right? Trump didn’t run on making everyone pay their “fair share”
Actually - conservatives in these states have done what we can to fight the good fight & elect as many conservatives as we can to oppose the liberals.
Apart from that - the math still doesn’t add up in my family’s particular situation.
Let’s say I did the new “in” thing that’s being thrown about here on Freerepublic and chose to (ahem) “pay my fair share”- and did not itemize last year.
That would have increased my tax bill by $500.
This new wonderful plan increases my tax bill by nearly $2700.This amount does not include the loss of education credit the republicans are proposing.
Meanwhile the families who don’t “pay their fair share” - in fact, they don’t pay anything at all - will receive an even greater EITC credit.
I could move out of NY tomorrow - and the math doesn’t change one bit.
“I am a veteran. I don’t have to hide behind anyone.”
Then why did you??
conservatives in these states have done what we can to fight the good fight “
We know that. The conservatives in those States obviously find incentive to stay in those States. The States know that and keep increasing their taxes.
Why did I what? Point out your bigotry against other Americans because of where they live? Because you demonstrated it.
It isn’t uniform - except for the income tax (5% for most middle class families)
The advantage of living in the economically depressed upstate - is that our cost of living is lower. Therefore our property taxes & mortgage deduction is not the outrageous amount you see around NYC and Long Island.
Anyways - like I said before.
The message I’ve been getting from FRiends here is that I should be uprooting my family.
Somehow I’ll have to uproot 2 sets of grandparents as well.
Sell our homes to God-knows-who in a housing market that will likely nosedive.
I should do this because I saved $500 per year by deducting SALT.
And now - no matter where I go - my new bill will increase by at least $2700.
As I stated in another post concerning this topic
Because of the crippling fed tax policy I look for any legal way possible to steal back my money from Uncle Sam. States are not the problem, the problem is with the feds and anyone thinking the elimination of a “tax entitlement” is akin to a voluntary mutually beneficial monetary transaction for the greater good.
States are not the problem, the problem is with the feds and anyone thinking the elimination of a “tax entitlement” is akin to a voluntary mutually beneficial monetary transaction for the greater good.
Oh and the States you mention already shelter most of the federal tax burden as it is but hey let’s just take some more
My increase under this new plan has absolutely nothing to do with SALT - and everything to do with the size of my family.
Remember when Ronal Reagan was nearly disqualified because of one divorce?
Do you remember when Oklahoma tried to remove sales tax on food? Legislators discovered that small towns get nearly all their revenue from the local grocery and they backed off quickly.
Yep. I also remember when sales tax in okc was only 4%
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