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spoke for many on the impact the SALT (State and Local Taxes) legislation passed in 2017 that limited deductions of state and local income taxes has had on her family and others in White Plains at a news conference on progress of eliminating the SALT law , held by Congressmen Jamahl Bowman, Mondaire Jones, and Tom Suozzi and Westchester County Executive George Latimer this morning. (Click arrow in center to view her remarks)
Before the cap was placed on the deduction, more than 230,000 Westchester County residents and over 67,000 Rockland County residents used the SALT deduction – many of whom are working, middle-class families. The average SALT deduction for Westchester and Rockland in 2017 was $36,263 and $22,249.
In Congress, Suozzi is the lead sponsor of the SALT Deductibility Act, legislation that would repeal the SALT cap. Jones is an original co-sponsor and Bowman is a co-sponsor of that legislation. In 2019, the House passed legislation to repeal the cap, but was blocked by a then Republican controlled Senate.