While Congress develops legislation that would eliminate, and/or otherwise mitigate, the current TCJA implemented state and local tax (SALT) limit on an individual taxpayer's ability to take the itemized deduction for state and local taxes, California has just passed legislation which offers a work-around that will allow many Californians to mitigate the effects of the current $10,000 federal limitation on SALT deductions. On 7/16/2021, Governor Newsom signed into law AB-150, which provides a means by which certain pass-through entities (Qualified Entities) can make an election to pay California income tax (at the entity-level) on behalf of their owners, for which their consent must be given. The benefits yielded could be substantial for pass-through entity owners for which work-around makes sense. Curiously the IRS has approved these...