Jack Ciattarelli on Tax Reform

	Jack Ciattarelli on Tax Reform

Cut the Corporation Business Tax by 1% per year for 5 years

Jack will cap property taxes to a percentage of assessed home value while expanding the senior property tax freeze. Jack will reduce the Corporation Business Tax by one percent per year for five years, taking it from the highest rate in the nation to one that is competitive nationally. Jack will reduce income taxes for all taxpayers, consolidate tax brackets, prohibit tax increases on home improvements, and make student loan interest tax deductible. Source: 2025 New Jersey Gubernatorial campaign website Jack4NJ.com , Mar 2, 2025

Contract with NJ GOP: lower taxes, cut spending, reduce debt

Ciattarelli's "Contract with New Jersey Republicans" promises to:

ESTABLISH A NEW JERSEY REPUBLICAN BRAND that offers concrete solutions to lower taxes, cut spending, reduce debt, create jobs, provide educational choice, make healthcare more affordable, and protect individual freedoms, while expanding our party to reflect the diversity of our state. Under my leadership, we will proudly be the Party of Lincoln in every way and compete for every vote.

Source: The Ridgewood Blog on 2021 New Jersey Gubernatorial race , Mar 10, 2021

Top priorities: lower property tax, reform state tax code

Ciattarelli said he would call for a constitutional convention to update how public education and affordable housing are funded. And if he does not get along with the Legislature--which has been led by Democrats for two decades-- Ciattarelli said, he would push for referendums to let voters decide key issues. His top priorities would be lowering property taxes, reforming the state's tax code, rolling back "burdensome" regulations, limiting waste and streamlining government. Source: Bergen Record on 2021 New Jersey gubernatorial race , Jan 21, 2020

School funding formula is root of property tax growth

During his 2017 GOP primary campaign for governor, in which he proposed a comprehensive property tax reform plan. Unlike other property tax relief plans of candidates down through the years, which merely involved sleight of hand increases in state taxes to finance cash rebates, Ciattarelli went to the heart of the matter by proposing extensive revision of the state education funding formula, the root cause of our escalating property taxes. Source: InsiderNJ.com on 2021 New Jersey gubernatorial race , Apr 9, 2019

No increase in top tax rate to reduce property taxes

Excerpts from legislation: Increases the top tax rate contingent on enactment of homestead benefit legislation. A new top marginal rate is set at 10.75% for earning over $1,000,000 (an increase from 8.97% for those earning over $500,000); lower brackets maintain the same rates. The purpose of the bill is to fund an enhanced homestead benefit, to temper the regressivity of the property tax for the bulk of NJ's property taxpayers.

Excerpts from veto message: I will not permit the State to succumb to the legislature's enduring addiction to profligate taxing and spending. I also have vetoed AB 3029, which would have increased the Earned Income Tax Credit to provide relief to only a subset of NJ's taxpayers. All of our taxpayers are already subject to one of the nation's highest state income tax rates. Instead, we should be lowering taxes for all New Jerseyans.

Legislative outcome:Ciattarelli voted NAY; passed House 47-31-2 & Senate 24-16-0; Vetoed.

Source: New Jersey legislative voting records: A 3201 , Jun 25, 2012

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