Deductions & credits


@Multifrus88 wrote:

The comment was made that "If you needed to make home improvements in order to sell your home, you can deduct those expenses as selling costs as long as they were made within 90 days of the closing." Can someone please advise where in an IRS Publication or code or whatever it says that. IRS staffers indicate in the negative.


That rule was eliminated from the law in 1997 or maybe even earlier.  The current rules are in publication 523.

https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-publication-523