Their districts, generally, do not have middle income taxpayers impacted by a $ 500,000 camp on mortgage interest deductions or the $ 10,000
limit on property tax deductions.
Basically, the federal agency said that tax filers can only avoid the new
cap on the property tax deduction by paying property taxes that have been assessed in 2017.
Miner said her concerns extend beyond the loss of the deductions for state and local income tax, and a $ 10,000 cap that the House bill would
place on property tax deductions.
Murphy also wants to boost the Earned Income Tax Credit to 40 percent of the federal limit, create a child and dependent care tax credit and increase the cap
on property tax deductions on state income from $ 10,000 to $ 15,000.
The old tax code had no
limit on property tax deductions, so people with tax bills above $ 10,000 were trying to avoid the new limit by prepaying on or prior to December 31st, 2017.
It imposes a new
cap on property tax deductions (at $ 10,000) and eliminates the widely used deduction for state and local income [SALT] or sales taxes altogether.
On the property tax deduction, 24 percent of New York taxpayers filed for it.
It also came as the governor continued to rail against the federal tax overhaul, something he said would cause big tax increases in the state, citing the elimination of a deduction for state and local taxes and a cap
on the property tax deduction.
The House version, however, would put a cap
on the property tax deduction, a maximum of $ 10,000 in property taxes could be deducted from your federal income tax return.