SALT Plan Would Mean Tax Cut for New Jersey, Democrat Says

Middle-class households in New Jersey and other high-tax states would benefit from an expansion of the state and local tax deduction, a key House Democrat said.

“For middle-class families in my district, this will equal a tax cut for them,” Representative Josh Gottheimer, a New Jersey Democrat, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.

The House’s version of the President Joe Biden’s economic agenda would increase the cap on the state and local tax, or SALT, write-off to $80,000, up from the $10,000 limit imposed in the 2017.

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Senators including Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, ...