TRENTON, N.J. — Now that the IRS has officially shut down attempts by New Jersey and other high-tax states to circumvent the new SALT cap with a “charity” workaround, Phil Murphy is hopping mad.
Republicans aren’t sympathetic.
The state’s top Republican reprimanded Murphy for his administration’s lack of focus.
“Governor Murphy’s tax scheme is a fake solution. After adopting a $36.5 billion budget with more holes than the State has fingers to fill them, Murphy must stop wasting taxpayer money on frivolous lawsuits engineered to garner national headlines by pitting himself against President Trump, and start solving our statewide problems, instead,” said NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt, an attorney, on Friday afternoon. “New Jersey’s tax problems were created in Trenton, not Washington, and Trenton is the only place they can be fixed. The NJGOP is launching a petition calling on Governor Murphy to fix NJ first and stop the baseless lawsuits.”
