Hi folks, i think something is wrong in TurboTax.
I have rented out a room in my house last year (i also live there btw) and made 5550, and i put this in the income section, along with this income, it also askes me the property tax and interested i paid which is about 50k in total. so i got -40k overall as income.
Then when i go to the next section - the tax deduction part, i put my property tax and interest there again and i got income deduction for about 40k again because i paid overall 50k in property tax and interest for my house.
i feel this is duplicating my tax deduction but i am not 100% sure,
i should remove one of them i guess?
The portion related to renting the room % goes with the rental (income section) , the remaining % goes on your sch A for itemized deductions (deduction section). You chose to do the math which means you do all the math. The other option was for the program to divide and carry those numbers for you. I prefer your option; but, no double dipping.
Ah that makes sense, i deleted the record in the tax deduction and only add the property tax i paid along with the interest, it seems the tax deduction was automatically assigned into two different part, one is in the income section, it become -28k, another one is into the Deduction section itself is about 27k. so total i paid property tax and interest about 55k, and ended up splitting into two different sections. and it seems i got more tax cut.
i guess it's the rental income 5k overt the last year was being deducted from the income because 1) it's my own resident house also, 2) compensated by the mortgage interest and property taxes... so basically this 5k rental income was not being taxed eventually.