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    No relief in sight for taxpayers denied deductions for state and local taxes

    by Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times Feb 16, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump again indicated this week that he might be open to revisiting the new limit on state and local tax deductions that hits many middle-income residents hard in California and other high-tax, Democratic states.

    Even so, don't count on any changes soon to the Republican tax law that went into effect last year.

    Legislative and political realities mean the $10,000 cap is unlikely to be scrapped or increased until after the 2020 elections at the earliest.

    Although opposition to the cap is widely believed to have helped defeat Republican House members in California, New York and New Jersey last November, a key Senate Republican is adamantly opposed to a

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