Sales Tax July 28, 2025
Sales Tax Rates and Rules Changes Skyrocket Across States in 2025, Says Vertex Report
In the first half of 2025, states made 408 sales tax rate changes and new rates – a 24% increase compared to the first half of 2024.
Taxes May 22, 2025
Trump Tax Bill Holdouts Lured with SALT Hike, Medicaid Cuts
House Republican leaders released a new version of President Donald Trump’s massive tax-and-spending bill Wednesday night in a bid to win over warring GOP factions to support the legislation.
Taxes May 21, 2025
House Republicans Close in on Deal for $40,000 SALT Cap
Republicans Wednesday were closing in a on deal to raise the cap on deducting state and local taxes to $40,000 a year, a key breakthrough that would boost passage of President Trump’s sprawling budget bill.
Taxes May 20, 2025
Trump Doesn’t Satisfy GOP Holdouts as Tax-and-Spending Bill Talks Drag On
Republican leaders had hoped the high-profile presidential visit would close deal on Trump-backed “big, beautiful” filibuster-proof reconciliation bill Tuesday.
Taxes May 20, 2025
Trump Pushes Republican Lawmakers to Back Sprawling Tax-and-Spending Bill
President Trump headed to Capitol Hill Tuesday to push squabbling Republican members of Congress in person to set aside differences and pass his sprawling budget bill.
Taxes May 18, 2025
New York Republican Pushes for Higher Tax Rate to Pay for SALT
“Allowing the top tax rate to expire—returning from 37% to 39.6% for individuals earning more than $609,350 and married couples earning more than $731,200—breathes $300 billion of new life into the effort." Rep. Nick LaLota posted on X.
Taxes May 16, 2025
Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Budget Package Bottled Up in House Committee, for Now
House Republican leaders couldn’t nail down the votes needed to advance the GOP’s giant budget reconciliation bill out of the Budget Committee on Friday in the face of opposition from a handful of hard-line Freedom Caucus members.
Taxes May 15, 2025
NY GOP Rep. Mike Lawler Calls MTG ‘Jewish Space Laser Lady’ in SALT Feud
Rep. Mike Lawler traded insults with fellow Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in a nasty online spat over his push for a higher cap on deducting state and local taxes.
Taxes May 14, 2025
Republicans Could Reach SALT Compromise Wednesday, Johnson Says
House Republicans could land on a compromise on the state and local tax deduction on Wednesday, a deal that would represent a breakthrough in one of the thorniest policy debates in President Donald Trump’s economic package.
Taxes May 13, 2025
NY GOP Lawmakers Vow to Sink Trump Budget Over SALT Dispute
New York Reps. Mike Lawler and Nick LaLota say they plan to vote against the president’s tax cuts package because it only includes an increase in the SALT cap to $30,000, too low for the middle-class and affluent communities they represent.
Taxes May 12, 2025
House Tax Bill Draft Calls for $30,000 SALT Cap, Leaves Out Millionaire Tax
The House Ways and Means Committee release of the tax measures, ahead of planned debate on the panel Tuesday, is a sign the Republican-controlled chamber is moving toward a floor vote this month on the legislation.
Taxes May 9, 2025
Malliotakis, Other House Republicans At Odds Over Higher SALT Cap
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) suggested she backs the GOP leadership proposal to increase the SALT cap to $30,000 from the current $10,000, even as other Republican lawmakers trashed it as a non-starter.
State and Local Taxes May 2, 2025
SALT Talks Stall as GOP Considers Limiting Tax Break to Middle Class
The $10,000 cap on SALT, one of the most contentious issues in the GOP debate on its giant tax bill, remained unresolved as lawmakers left Washington on Thursday.