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Question: Is mortgage interest 100% deductible and what about the origination fee?

Answer: Yes and Yes.

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Question: Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction ?

The house is titled in my husband’s name, but the loan is still in mother in law’s name. My husband and I have paid the mortgage all year. Who claims the income tax deduction, my husband or my mother in law?

Answer: Interest statement from the mortgage company will come in mother in law’s name. Better ask your tax preparer that question. I’d be interested to hear the answer! what my first thought was: Legally mom owns the house and your purchasing from her on land contract…she claims the mortgage interest..but she also has to claim your payments as income. But I’m not certain this is correct. Never seen a mortgage company that would title a home in one name and carry the mortgage in another……

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Form 8396, mortgage interest credit (for holders of qualified mortgage credit certificates issued by state or local governmental units or agencies) (SuDoc T 22.51:8396/) …

Home mortgage interest deduction : for use in preparing … returns (SuDoc T 22.44/2:936/) …

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Tax Break for Mortgage Debt Is Ready for the Wrecking Ball: View

Americans think differently about housing now: Developers have cut back on speculative projects and mortgage bankers view lending standards more soberly. Another important change in attitudes emerged this week when people were asked how they feel about giving up the ability to deduct mortgage interest from their personal income taxes.

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Question: Is interest paid on Personal Loan used for Home Improvements tax deductible in US?

Answer: No. To be deductible the loan must be secured by the property. By definition a personal loan has no security other than the borrower’s word so the interest is not deductible.

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Tax Tip: Tricks to Mortgage Interest Deduction

NEW YORK (MainStreet) -On your Schedule A, you can deduct as mortgage interest only the amount charged on up to $100,000 of home equity debt. If you have total home equity debt of $150,000 and the interest on this debt for the year is $9,000, you can deduct only $6,000 ($100,000 represents two-thirds of total equity of $150,000, so only two-thirds of the $9,000 interest paid is deductible: $6 …

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Question: Margin Interest Deductible In This Situation?

I know margin interest is only deductible up to the amount of net invesment income I’ve received. Does that mean if I have $10k in short term capital gains and $10k in short term capital losses for a given year–IOW, no overall net gain–that I can’t deduct margin interest? Thanks in advance.

Answer: In your example, you would have $0.00 in net investment income. Therefore, your investment (ie margin) interest deduction would be limited to $0.00. It gets carried foward to future year though.

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Fire crews approve new city contract.(General News)(Springfield firefighters ratify a two-year pact that boosts pay but hikes deductibles): An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) $5.95 This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on August 20, 2003. The length of the article is 554 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Deta…

Schedule C & E deficiencies: is the interest deductible?: An article from: The National Public Accountant $5.95 This digital document is an article from The National Public Accountant, published by National Society of Public Accountants on December 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1042 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web …

Interest on income tax deficiencies may be deductible. (Miller): An article from: The Tax Adviser $5.95 This digital document is an article from The Tax Adviser, published by American Institute of CPA’s on March 1, 1995. The length of the article is 600 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: The…

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Interest is tax deductible!

Question: Loan Origination Fee less than 1% of mortgage amount: 1 point for tax deduction purposes?

I bought a house last year and paid about $150 less than 1% of the mortgage amount as a loan origination fee. Now that I am preparing my tax return, does this fee count as a point paid? Are partial points allowed? What should I do?

Answer: Was the fee charged as a percentage of the loan amount or was it coincidentally about $150 less than 1%? If it wasn’t expressly calculated as a percentage (or fraction of a percentage) then it isn’t deductible.

See IRS Form 530 linked below.

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Tax legislationheads to Obama

share: digg facebook twitter WASHINGTON — Congress approved the most significant tax bill in nearly a decade late Thursday, overcoming liberal resistance to continue for two more years tax breaks enacted under President George W. Bush and to provide a fresh boost of federal support to the tepid economic recovery. The package, brokered by President Barack Obama and Republican leaders in the wake …

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