Posted on 01/18/2011 11:25:29 AM PST by Tribune7
A rotten Easter egg for homeowners is part of the tax bill passed by the lame-duck Democrat Congress and signed into law by President Obama, Dec. 17.
A provision to allow homeowners to deduct local property taxes without itemizing was let lapse. About two-thirds of Americans don't make enough money to make it worth itemizing. The provision saved homeowners about $1.6 billion per year.
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Yeah, cool! Another $1.6 billion to play with!
My apologies. That does look like crap. Once I posted it, I realized it was way over the top. I think the orange background really messed it up. Maybe we can get it deleted.
The deduction was limited to $1,000? Our property taxes are nearly $4,000/year.
2010 will be the first year we won’t itemize, due to no mortgage interest.
Worse than that... they're complicit.
It affects 2010 as I have already found out from my tax software and from the IRS website. Made me have to pay federal tax when I usually break even or get a little back.
Potentially a good thing. In fact the GOP may want to consider ending all deductability for state and local taxes. If they did a whole lot of blue states would turn suddenly a whole lot redder very fast.
$500 Single, $1000 Married filing jointly.
Our property taxes are nearly $4,000/year. 2010 will be the first year we wont itemize, due to no mortgage interest.
Be thankful.
But that's the point, not necessarily. They had been getting the property tax deduction automatically.
The standard deduction may still be greater than an itemized deduction even including the property tax deduction, whereas under the previous policy even without itemizing they would still get a break.
IOW, Obama, Pelosi and Reid have given the royal shaft to low-income homeowners.
Hey, at least there wasn’t steam coming off of it.
What's $1000 you can't spend on your family, compared with the satisfaction of knowing that incumbant politicians can sleep well at night. I'm sure you'll agree that your personal needs must take a back seat to that, even if it is money you had to earn yourself.
Obama recently signed an executive order “allowing” the feds to confiscate all 401ks and retirement accounts.
Friday,1/7/11 Judge Roll issued a critical “preliminary ruling” against the Obama administration to prevent them from acting on an FDR Executive Order (6102),
which allowed the government to seize personal savings when no proof of a crime was committed?
(”USA v. $333,520.00 in US Currency et al”, Case number: 4:2010cv00703 .......Filed Nov 30, 2010).
Obama recently signed an executive order allowing the feds to confiscate all 401ks and retirement accounts.
Our media forget to inform us of this fact!
A single judge adjudicated that Obama did not have that authority and stopped the confiscation.
The judge, USDC court of Arizona Presiding Judge Roll, was shot and died on Saturday by a “crazed gunman.”
A Baby Ruth, from Caddyshack.
Ping for later research.
Just means you have to itemize to get it.. no need to lose the deduction, just have to put in a little more effort.
Hmmm. The judge was murdered just after the Clinton people decided to move back into the WH.
ping
I kinda liked it. Hee Hee
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