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- From: neilw@informix.com (Neil Williams)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: Info on renting/buying
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.232445.21746@informix.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 23:24:45 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.181621.18688@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1992Nov18.143832.2788@meaddata.com> <1992Nov18.104445.44913@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.104445.44913@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.143832.2788@meaddata.com>, dedek@meaddata.com (Mike Dedek) writes:
- >> In article <1992Nov17.232624.26624@wixer.cactus.org>, guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery) writes:
- >> |> I have a lot of good reasons to buy this house, but a tax deduction
- >> |> isn't one of them. I'm always amazed by the stress put on tax
- >> |> deductions. Some make little or no difference as compared to the cost
- >> |> (like having kids, or losing money at the stock market).
- >
- >Yeah, I fed a year of projected mortgage interest payments into a
- >tax program and it turned out Uncle Sam was willing to pay $17 a month
- >toward buying a house. BUT that chunk of interest gives you a base
- >for other itemizations and a lot of the 'middle-class perks' in
- >the tax code are structured on the assumption you have that. I've
- >filed complicated returns only twice (due to causalty losses once,
- >liquidation of a profit-sharing fund once), and without a 'platform'
- >to put other deductions on, you just have to swallow hard and watch
- >what looked at first like wonderful tax breaks go bye-bye....
-
- I just did the worksheet for the W4 since I just got married and
- am planning on getting a home soon. Quite an eye-opener!
-
- First, for itemized deductions I estimated about 17k in deductions.
- Worked out to 9 exemptions - hmmm, pretty good, I thought.
-
- Next, I did the worksheet for 2-income couples. Not so good -
- I came up with 0 exemptions!!! After a mild stroke and severe
- panic, my co-workers told me not to worry and that my wife
- and I should claim 4 or 5 exemptions. Whew, what a relief!
-
- >Laws are written by and for white conventional middle-class home-
-
- ...where conventional means 1-income families. #&^%*!$% Republican
- "family values". Should've continued living in sin....
-
- --Neil
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- Neil Williams: neilw@informix.com
-
- Seen on my last trip on United: "If you are seated in an exit row
- and can not (sic) read this card... please notify a crew member."
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