Tennesee Sales Tax Deduction

[KarenJ]

If you are asking about the TN Consumer Use (Sales) Tax whereby all TN residents must pay use tax when goods are purchased from outside the state of Tennessee and brought or shipped into the state and the seller did not collect sales tax on the purchase.  This includes online purchases.

Please see the following link for completing this filing online:

https://www.tn.gov/revenue/taxes/consumer-use-tax.html

[Clcb]

I am referring to the sales tax for TN that is or was a dedu

[xmasbaby0]

@Clcb If you are itemizing deductions on your federal return and you are entering mortgage interest, etc. then you can include state sales tax as an itemized deduction.   Itemized deductions have no effect unless you enough to exceed your standard deduction.

SALES TAX

You can enter the sales tax you paid  in 2022 by going to Federal>Deductions and Credits>Estimates and Other Taxes Paid> Sales Tax. 

Sales tax is an itemized deduction. “Major purchases” that you can enter for the sales tax deduction include:

Motor Vehicles (cars, trucks, motor homes, RV’s, sport utility vehicles and off-road vehicles

Aircraft or boats

Mobile homes

Manufactured housing

Building materials for major home improvements

You cannot deduct: furniture, jewelry, home electronics such as TV’s or computers

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