Bill Amendment: IL HR0672 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly

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Bill Title: SALT-NO ELIMINATION

Status: 2017-11-07 - Resolution Adopted as Amended [HR0672 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HR0672-House_Amendment_001.html

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 672
AMENDMENT NO. __. Amend House Resolution 672 by replacing
everything after the heading with the following:
"WHEREAS, President Donald Trump and Congressional
Republicans are proposing radical changes to America's tax
code; and
WHEREAS, The changes President Trump and his Congressional
allies are discussing would benefit millionaires and
billionaires while hurting working families; and
WHEREAS, President Trump and Congressional Republicans
have discussed removing the state and local tax deduction, also
known as SALT, as a way to pay for their proposed tax cuts for
the wealthy; and
WHEREAS, The state and local tax deduction allows families

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that pay local property taxes, state and local sales taxes, and
state income taxes to deduct those taxes from their federal
income tax; and
WHEREAS, This deduction prevents families from being
double taxed, once by the federal government and again by the
state; and
WHEREAS, The state and local tax deduction has broad
bipartisan support and has been helping Illinoisans since 1913;
and
WHEREAS, Illinois has the fifth highest number of taxpayers
who claim the state and local tax deduction in the nation; and
WHEREAS, Nearly two million Illinois taxpayers claimed
more than $24 billion in SALT deductions in 2015, with each
claiming an average $12,500 in deductions; and
WHEREAS, Of Illinoisans who claim a SALT deduction,
approximately 85% earn less than $200,000 per year; therefore,
be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
strongly oppose any and all efforts by the Trump Administration

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and Congress to eliminate or gut the state and local tax
deduction to help pay for tax cuts for corporations and the
wealthy one percent; and be it further
RESOLVED, That we call upon Governor Rauner to work with
the Illinois Congressional Delegation to ensure that the state
and local tax deduction is not eliminated or gutted; and be it
further
RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
delivered to all members of the Illinois Congressional
Delegation."