Many Lawyers Will Be Getting Screwed This Tax Season

You can probably kiss that refund check you were hoping for goodbye.

onFebruary 8, 2019 at 11:16 AMFebruary 8, 2019 at 11:03 AM

‘Oh no…’

Last year I got a $750 refund. And this year I owe $4,600. I guess that my assumption was that the IRS withholding tables would have been updated to some degree or my company would have done something.

— Ben Williams, a lawyer in New York City, commenting on a situation most lawyers, especially lawyers in blue states, are dreading encountering this tax season. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act capped deductions on state and local tax (SALT) payments to $10,000, and Williams said he usually pays more than three times that amount in SALT expenses. He’d hoped to use his anticipated tax refund for a vacation.

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