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aggiesal

(8,909 posts)
12. Here is the tax scam everyone is about to find out ...
Sun Dec 9, 2018, 12:43 PM
Dec 2018
People got more money in their pay checks because their employers deducted less taxes.


That extra money you got in your paycheck? It is just a loan.
All that money IS your income tax.

For example, if you made $50,000 last year and paid $10,000 in taxes from your paycheck, your net pay reflected $40,000.
This year you got the same $50,000, but you only paid $5,000 in taxes from your paycheck. You got an extra $5,000 in net pay of $45,000. No doubt you’ve spent that money.

Your tax bill will still be $10,000, because the tax tables did not change, only the deduction algorithm was changed so you could get more money in your paycheck.
That $5,000 you got extra, you’ll have to pay that back on April 15th.
It’s just a loan.

Also for those living in those high rent district states?
You’ll only get to write off your mortgage interest on $750,000
and can only write off up to $10,000 in property taxes.
So if you have a $1,000,000 mortgage, you can’t write off all your mortgage interest.
And if you have that $15,000 in property taxes, you can only write off $10,000.

I mention this because that $5,000 tax bill mentioned above, turns into an $8k to $10k bill.

And if you voted for IQ45, this is what you voted for.
But you’re bringing the rest of us down with you.
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