As Tax Day Looms for New York, Rubbing SALT in the Empire State’s Self-Inflicted Economic Wound

It was Governor Cuomo’s policies, not President Trump’s 2017 tax reform, that hurt the state’s taxpayers.

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Governor Cuomo at New York City on August 10, 2023. AP/Seth Wenig, file

Monday’s income tax filing deadline marks the sixth year of Form 1040s shaped by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 — memorably denounced by Governor Cuomo as “an arrow aimed at New York’s economic heart,” thanks to its $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions.

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