However, single filers retained the full personal exemption and standard deduction, unlike married filers.
The increase in the standard deduction decreases your taxable income, meaning you pay less in taxes.
If the standard deduction exceeds your itemized tally, you should obviously opt for the IRS's amount.
He can get out of the kiddie tax and claim an exemption and standard deduction for himself.
Gore trumpets that he will reduce the marriage penalty by increasing the standard deduction for married couples.
With such a standard deduction, 75 percent of all tax filers would have no income tax liability.
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You may not itemize deductions if you use the federal form 1040EZ: you must claim the standard deduction.
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Interest can pile on pretty quickly and together with other deductions, can edge you over the standard deduction limit.
That is the point at which gross income begins to exceed the standard deduction and the deduction for the personal exemption.
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You may not have enough itemized deductions to exceed the standard deduction.
Conversely, if the total of those deductions is less than the standard deduction for your filing status, you will want to claim the standard deduction.
In substance, then, all the new penalty really does is provide that you must have health insurance in order to qualify for the full standard deduction.
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Over the years, the personal exemption and standard deduction have not kept pace with inflation, so today 70% of the population is subject to income taxes.
But what emerged was a clear improvement of the tax code, with a top statutory personal income rate of 28 percent and the doubling of the standard deduction.
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Medical expenses are deductible on a Schedule A if you itemize your deductions (only about one-third of all taxpayers will opt to itemize rather than claim the standard deduction).
Like the House measure, the Senate bill has a standard deduction provision, but it allows businesses to apply their net losses to previous years in which they turned a profit.
If the total of those deductions exceed the standard deduction for your filing status, you will (in most cases) want to claim itemized deductions instead of claiming the standard deduction.
But that's like offering individuals the choice of taking the standard deduction or itemizing on their returns, and then demonizing a subset of people who choose the approach that minimizes their income tax obligation.
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Although the law prohibits one spouse from itemizing deductions if the other spouse claims the standard deduction (section 63(c)(6)(A)), registered domestic partners are not spouses as defined by federal law and this provision does not apply to them.
But note again that the largest group excluded from paying income tax because of special tax expenditures are seniors, who get a bigger standard deduction than younger folks and more importantly, special tax treatment for their Social Security benefits.
It looks like it is designed for younger residents who are only taking the standard deduction, meaning that homeowners, those with their own businesses or affluent taxpayers (who are the most likely to itemize their deductions) will not find it useful.
In 1960 only 15% of federal income tax returns had a zero tax liability, due mostly to low taxable income, a standard deduction, the personal exemption, the dependent exemption, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (a direct subsidy to people for being poor).
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The tax law gradually increased the standard deduction for married taxpayers who file jointly to an amount equal to twice the standard deduction of persons filing a single return, resembling the original 1948 bill that allowed two full deductions for married couples regardless of the level of income.
In reality, the only losers will be tax accountants, as it will become clear that most people will either be in position to take the standard deduction or will be able to itemize up to the cap and corporate tax avoidance will be limited as part of the reform package.
Last year after the Haiti earthquake, Congress passed a law to let folks who gave to Haiti relief efforts through March 1, 2010, the option of taking a deduction for the charitable contribution on either their 2009 or 2010 tax return (this applies to folks who itemize deductions, instead of taking the standard deduction).
But anyone claiming the standard sales tax deduction shown in the table may also be eligible to calculate and claim a local sales tax break.
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The donation in Scharf was made in 1967 before Congress amended section 170 to disallow a charitable contribution deduction for the contribution of a partial interest in property, and the standard applied in Scharf was subsequently superseded by the quid pro quo standard for charitable contribution deductions established by the Supreme Court in Am.
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