You can claim it in the year paid, but only if your total sales taxes are greater than your total income taxes.
The
IRS sales tax tables can have certain additions. These include:
- a motor
vehicle (including a car, motorcycle, motor home, recreational vehicle,
sport utility vehicle, truck, van, and off-road vehicle
- a leased
motor vehicle.
- an
aircraft, boat, home (including mobile and prefabricated),
- or home
building materials, if the tax rate was the same as the general sales tax
rate.
To
do so, however, your state sales taxes still must exceed your state income
taxes, as you can only deduct one or the other.
The deduction for sales tax is under
the deductions and credits tab. Go to: Deductions and Credits > Estimates
and Other Taxes Paid > Sales Tax.
- Click Update next to Sales Tax.
- Click Continue.
- Select Easy Guide
- Click Edit next to your sales tax rate.
- Click Continue twice and you will then be on
the page where you enter your car or other major purchases.