Ok. If you did NOT itemize your return, but you own your home and paid property taxes, then a few steps back it asked for you to enter your real estate taxes. In that section, if you are NOT itemizing, then you would not enter anything there. If you DID itemize your return, then you would enter the amount of all the taxes you paid in this section. This would ONLY be property taxes, it would NOT include sales or income taxes you paid.
Again if you DID NOT itemize, then you will enter the ENTIRE amount of taxes you paid on your home in the Excess Real Estate taxes.
If you DID itemize, you will not enter anything in the Excess Real Estate Taxes, instead you would have entered it in the previous spot for Real estate taxes and you will leave the Excess Real Estate tax box blank.
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