Lawmakers from both parties have sought insight on legislative ways to push back on state workarounds to the $10,000 federal cap on individuals’ deductions for state and local taxes, Congress’ top tax scorekeeper said.
“There’s been a number of people, I’d say, from both sides of the aisle that have been interested in the issue of, ‘Well, what about these state workarounds? Are there things that we can do to rationalize the system if we want to retain this sort of limitation?’” said Thomas Barthold, the Joint Committee on Taxation’s chief of staff.
- Barthold spoke Wednesday at the 2025 D.C. ...