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Temporary Sales-Tax Deduction Benefits Only One-Quarter of Texas Taxpayers, No Excuse for Raising State Sales-Tax Rate

  

Author:
Dick Lavine /(512) 320-0222 x 101

November 8, 2004

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The U.S. Congress recently passed a bill that allows taxpayers to deduct their state sales tax payments in calculating federal taxable income. Most Texas families gain absolutely nothing from this change. Fewer than one-quarter of Texas taxpayers - disproportionately those with higher incomes - currently itemize their deductions; only itemizers benefit from a new sales-tax deduction.