“Utah State taxes are linked to federal definitions,” said Christopher Collard, a research analyst with the Utah Foundation.
The Utah Foundation said the jump in 2018 taxes isn’t a surprise. The organization sounded the alarm last year, saying that the federal tax reforms would negatively impact lower and middle-income Utahns.
“Larger families will see the biggest impact,” read Collard’s March 2018, report about income taxation in Utah. “Both single and married households with more than two children will have a higher state income tax liability.”
The same report said that middle-income single filers and couples with no children could see a decrease in state taxes.
For larger families, Congress balanced out the loss of the personal exemption by increasing the child tax credit — but that didn’t happen on the state level.
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