Filing taxes in the nation’s capital was once as mundane and predictable as anywhere else.
But the US Senate’s action Feb. 12 to thwart a Washington, DC, measure that decoupled the city from portions of President Donald Trump’s signature 2025 tax law has thrown a wrench into the filing season that opened Jan. 26. Republican lawmakers voted to essentially require the district to change more than a dozen provisions in its tax code to align with the federal law enacted last July.
The resolution (H.J. Res 142), which Trump is expected to sign,