Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Abstract
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, H.R. 1, would eliminate the federal income tax deduction for nonbusiness state and local taxes while maintaining the deduction for business state and local taxes. That disparate treatment has generated a storm of negative commentary. In this short essay, I consider whether the federal tax law should allow a deduction for business state and local taxes assuming that there is no deduction for nonbusiness state and local taxes. I argue that investors and businesses, including pass-through businesses, should be allowed to deduct state and local property and sales taxes, but not general income taxes.
Keywords
Tax law and policy, law and economics, SALT deduction, real & personal property taxes, wage and general income taxes, public benefits
Publication Title
Tax Notes
Repository Citation
Knoll, Michael S., "On the Disparate Treatment of Business and Personal SALT Payments" (2018). All Faculty Scholarship. 1960.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/1960
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Publication Citation
158 Tax Notes 331 (2018)