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Junique
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If I sold my home and with the proceeds bought a new home, can I deduct the expenses and taxes I paid in the new home?

I already figured out my cost basis for the sale of the home but how do I deduct the taxes I paid for the new home along with the expenses?
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Vanessa A
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If I sold my home and with the proceeds bought a new home, can I deduct the expenses and taxes I paid in the new home?

No.  The homes are separate transactions.  You can only include the expenses incurred to sell your home as part of the old home expenses.

 

The expenses you paid for the new home will be added to your cost basis of your new home so when you sell that home, you will deduct the expenses. 

 

Cost Basis of a Home

 

in order to claim any of the property taxes paid you would have to itemize your return.  

 

Itemized expenses include mortgage interest, state and local taxes up to $10,000, medical expenses in excess of 7.5% of your AGI and casualty and losses in excess of 10% of you AGI with the first $100 not counting towards the loss.  Your health insurance and all medical expenses are only deductible for the amount that is over 7.5% of your AGI.  This means if your AGI is $50,000, then the amount that is over $3,750 is deductible.  

 

Then your total itemized expenses would need to be greater than your standard deduction below in order to benefit from your insurance premium payments. 

 

The 2023 Standard Deductions are as follows:

  • Married Filing Joint (MFJ)              $27,700
  • Married Filing Separate (MFS)      $13,850
  • Head of Household (HOH)             $20,800 
  • Single                                                     $13,850                                

Blind and MFJ or MFS add $1,500

Single or HOH if blind add $1,850

 

Standard versus Itemized Deduction

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