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NY, CT, MD and NJ File Suit Against Tax Reform Law

The long-promised lawsuit filed by New York State Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood specifically points to the federal tax reform law capping the SALT deduction at $10,000 as damaging to state taxpayers. The litigation was joined by the attorneys general of Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey.

Ever since the federal tax reform law went into effect earlier this year, New York Gov. Cuomo had been promising New York State would bring the federal government to court over the capping of SALT deductions. Ever since the federal tax reform law went into effect earlier this year, New York Gov. Cuomo had been promising New York State would bring the federal government to court over the capping of SALT deductions.

NEW YORK CITY—New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that New York State had filed a lawsuit against the federal government over what it terms as the unconstitutional federal tax reform law enacted earlier this year.

The lawsuit contends the new SALT (state and local tax) cap was enacted to target New York and similarly situated states, that it interferes with states’ rights to make their own fiscal decisions and that it will disproportionately harm taxpayers in these states.

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John Jordan

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