JotikaT2
Employee Tax Expert

Deductions & credits

It sounds like your mortgage interest may be reflected as being over the limit since you refinanced.  I recommend reviewing your input to ensure your full mortgage interest deduction is allowed.

 

Mortgage interest deduction limits

 

Since you refinanced the same loan and if your total loan balance did not exceed $750,000 throughout the year, you will need to review your input.

 

Be sure that you have entered $0 for the loan that was paid off in Box 2 - Outstanding mortgage principal on the screen titled Let's get the details from your Home loan 1098.

 

Outstanding balance

You will also want to select that the loan that was refinanced and is no longer there at the end of the year is marked as paid off during the year.

 

Paid off

 

Please see the following link for additional information on entering the refinanced mortgage interest expense.

 

Refinanced mortgage input

 

Once you make your corrections as outlined above, you should be able to itemize again as long as you meet the requirements and the total of your itemized deductions exceed your standard deduction.

 

Standard deduction versus itemized deduction

 

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