Deductions & credits

Nothing has changed this year with regard to the deductibility of car registration fees on the Federal return. 

You may have seen a screen in TurboTax that summarized all of the potentially deductible items you entered, but you will only get a deduction for them if your total itemizable deductions exceed your standard deduction, or if you tell TurboTax where prompted to take the itemized deductions even if they are less (such as married filing separately and the other spouse itemizes). 

You can review your forms and worksheets for 2022 to determine what happened on that return.

To print your tax return worksheets and schedules after you file, in TurboTax Online, please follow these instructions:

1. Log into your TurboTax account
2. Scroll to the bottom of page, click Add a State( you are not adding a state, this is just to get in the right menu)
3. Over to the left, click Tax Tools dropdown
4. Click the Print Center
5. Click the Print, save or preview this year's return
6. Check Federal returns and/or State returns
7. Select Include government and TurboTax worksheets (optional)
8. Then,click View or print forms

Your car registration fee is deductible if it’s a yearly fee based on the value of your vehicle and you itemize your deductions.

You can’t deduct the total amount you paid, only the portion of the fee that’s based on your vehicle’s value.

In addition, not all states have value-based registration fees. See this TurboTax help article for a list of states and the type of registration fees they charge. In some states, you deduct a personal property tax instead of vehicle registration.