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Returning Member

Retirement tax questions

"You can treat amounts you paid during 2020 for qualified mortgage insurance as home mortgage interest."

 

"Qualified mortgage insurance is mortgage insurance provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Federal Housing Administration, or the Rural Housing Service, and private mortgage insurance (as defined in section 2 of the Home- owners Protection Act of 1998..."

 

If you can treat VA Funding Fee as interest, why would you enter it in box 5?