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- Schedule A
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- Medical & Dental Expenses
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- These should include only unreimbursed medical and dental expenses. See
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- page >B3>-44 of your manual. Any "Deducted on 1040" amount comes from the
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- Self-Employed Deductions worksheet beneath form 1040. We subtract it
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- when totaling your medical and dental expenses—-which we show as
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- deductible only to the extent they exceed 7.5% of your Adjusted Gross
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- Income.
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- Taxes You Paid
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- State and Local Income Tax should be the amount you will actually pay
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- (not owe) this year, including tax you may have paid this year for last
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- year. Include also any Real Estate taxes. Remember, sales tax is no
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- longer deductible.
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- Interest You Paid
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- Personal Interest
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- Enter all your Personal Interest and we'll show 40% of it as
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- deductible (or 65% if you're using 1987 rules).
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- Home Mortgage Interest
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- Interest is currently deductible on up to $1 million of mortgage debt
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- borrowed to buy, build or substantially improve a home (or two), but
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- deductible on only the first $100,000 if borrowed against your home
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- after October 12, 1987, for any other purpose. Refinancing an
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- existing mortgage (plus $100,000) is OK too. But if you paid $400,000
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- cash for a home and now wanted to borrow $300,000 against it, only the
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- interest on the first $100,000 would be deductible. Check to be sure
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- Congress hasn't changed these rules >Iagain>.
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- Investment Interest
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- Use this category to record interest paid on loans used to make
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- investments (such as margin interest). Enter only the deductible
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- amount. In 1988, deductible investment interest is limited to your
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- investment income plus $4,000 ($6,500 in 1987).
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- Contributions You Made
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- Enter any cash contributions made during the year. To handle non-cash
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- contributions, see page >B8>-11 of the manual. We limit your Deductible
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- Contributions to 50% of your Adjusted Gross Income. (But some types of
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- non-cash contributions are limited to 30%——check with your accountant.)
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- Casualty & Theft Losses
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- Please click the shaded arrow to see our worksheet, and read help.
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- Moving Expenses
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- Likewise.
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- Miscellaneous Deductions Subject to 2% Limit
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- If you have unreimbursed business expenses, click the arrow for the
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- Business Expenses worksheet. Total Allowable Miscellaneous Deductions
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- is the amount by which your Total Expenses exceed 2% of your Adjusted
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- Gross Income.
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