The Trump administration argued in a recent filing against a lawsuit from New York over the new cap on the deductibility of state and local taxes that, contrary to public statements by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the federal tax law passed in 2017 does not intentionally target states controlled by Democrats.
Attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice wrote in the filing that the state’s argument about the tax law being written to disenfranchise blue states in particular was “questionable at best” and that the state had not shown enough harm done by the cap to bring the lawsuit.
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