Even with
the proposed federal tax law changes pending, here are a few places to start:
Not exact matches
Cuomo has
proposed legislation that could create more than 2,000 new local government entities to accept charitable donations from residents who want to try to get around limits on state and local
taxes in the new
federal tax law.
Cuomo had
proposed the payroll
tax and charitable foundations as ways to help cushion the impact of the new
federal tax law and its $ 10,000 limit on deductions for state and local
taxes.
Cuomo last week
proposed replacing the state's personal income
tax with a payroll
tax as a response to the
federal tax law capping state and local
tax deductions at $ 10,000.
Both the Senate and Cuomo have
proposed decoupling the state
tax code from the
federal law in order to soften the impact of the
federal tax changes on New York taxpayers.
Republican Rep. John Faso released a letter Wednesday sent to the
tax policy office at the U.S. Department of Treasury that seeks to clarify whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo's
proposed workarounds for a $ 10,000 cap on state and local
tax deductions are legal under
federal law.
Cuomo has
proposed far more sweeping changes to the state's
tax code that he says are needed to soften the blow of the new
federal tax law, which will raise the
federal taxes of many New Yorkers by capping a deduction for state and local
taxes at $ 10,000.
And it wants a state - level plan to «recapture» some of the savings large corporations are receiving through the new
federal tax law, something Cuomo has
proposed in his budget.
Cuomo's
proposed changes come after
federal tax law capped state and local income
tax deductions.
As expected, the new budget amendments also include a
proposed shift — for the increasing minority of taxpayers who will still itemize under the new
federal law — away from state income
tax payments to an employer - paid payroll
tax system.
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has
proposed legislation that could create more than 2,000 new local government entities to accept charitable donations from residents who want to try to get around limits on state and local
taxes in the new
federal tax law.
A Cuomo administration budget official said the
proposed payroll
tax also could be used to raise more revenue by seizing some of the
tax cuts promised to corporations and the wealthy under the
federal tax law, as a way to shore up state finances.