First time ever filing my own taxes, It looks like the last few years we took the standard deduction instead of Itemized. So now I have all of this information and tax forms I got organized, and No idea which parts of it I even need to enter into our tax filing if we are not itemizing. Please tell me which ones below I do or do not need to report if not itemizing our deductions.
1. Report Mortage Interest/ Property Taxes paid (received form 1098 Mortgage Interest Statement and Real Estate Taxes Paid info from bank lender for our mortgage.)
2. Report Student Loan Interest we paid (we received a tax form 1098E regarding our Interest paid on school loans)
3. Report our HSA (Health Savings Account) distributions (we received a tax form 1099SA) and were told this is reported on Federal Form 8889.
4. Report Interest Income (from any bank accounts)
5. Report any "Dividend Income" (we did receive a 1099-DIV)
