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In reply to the discussion: Wait they're really going to eliminate all deductions besides charity and mortgage? [View all]dumbcat
(2,158 posts)50. Oh Gads! I'm hit!
You got me, fair and square.
I meant Schedule C.
I hate it when that happens.
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Wait they're really going to eliminate all deductions besides charity and mortgage? [View all]
Johonny
Apr 2017
OP
Since when was LTC tax-deductible? It wasn't for me, either with my husband in 2014 or my mother in
WinkyDink
Apr 2017
#26
Unless the parent was declared a "Dependent" (and I'm thinking not just in December of the tax year)
WinkyDink
Apr 2017
#42
They're "simplifying the tax rate" to three rates at not yet determined income levels...
Johonny
Apr 2017
#13
Yes, you are missing something. Progressive taxation is based on a "credit" for basic necessities...
JHB
Apr 2017
#44
The mortgage deduction was stressed as one of TWO deductions remaining, the other's being chari-
WinkyDink
Apr 2017
#32
Not if a person just bought a middle class house and have prop taxes, 30k wouldn't cover no where...
uponit7771
Apr 2017
#21
Um...subject-verb? "the standard deduction wants to go to $30k"---I don't get it. And no standard
WinkyDink
Apr 2017
#28
It will hurt all the blue states the worst because they're the ones who are willing
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#38