"It’s an issue of fairness that Texas families be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when families in most states are deducting their state income taxes.

"We worked hard and were able to restore the sales tax deduction for families for the next two years – but I will not rest until this much needed tax relief is a permanent part of the tax code," said Brady who as a member of the tax writing Ways and Means Committee is in an influential position to move tax measures through Congress.

Congressman Brady’s sales tax deductibility provision was signed into law by the President last month as a part of the American Jobs Creation Act. The provision offers taxpayers who itemize deductions on their federal tax return the option to deduct state and local sales tax from their federal income tax bill for the next two years.