Sales Tax Table Deduction

[VolvoGirl]

I'm filling out the What-If worksheet in the Desktop program.  Where do you enter the Sales Tax instead of State Tax?   That really doesn't matter since my state estimates etc are more.  My main questions is......I did the IRS Sales Tax Deduction Calculator and it asked for non taxable IRA distributions not including Rollovers.  Would that include the QCD charity distributions I made?  I made a LOT of QCD.   

The IRS didn't have year 2025 listed yet so I put in 2024 and used my 2025 income.  It didn't seem to give me very much sales tax.  Looks like it only gave me about 10% of what I calculate.  

It shows 7.25% for my state.   So don't I simply take my AGI x .0725?  That is about 10x higher than the IRS gives me.   If I take the IRS calculated tax amount / AGI I get .005.  I guess there must be more formula to it.  They probably don't give you the whole AGI x rate.  

[Mike9241]

you are correct that the IRS standard sales tax deduction is not AGI times the general sales tax rate. for example I used single, 100,000 of income living in Chicago, IL, the IRS website gave me a figure of $1,333

for Beverly hills,Ca same facts the number was $1,242 for New York City it was $1,217

so it seems that the IRS concludes you spend little  over 10% of your income on taxable purchases. 

QCDs wouldn't count because none of it is spent on taxable purchases.  

[AmeliesUncle]

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@VolvoGirl wrote:

 So don't I simply take my AGI x .0725?  

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Most of your AGI is used to pay for things that are NOT subject to Sales Tax.  The IRS isn't going to give you a sales tax deduction for things that you don't pay sales tax.

You don't pay sales tax on your mortgage/rent, real estate tax, income tax, charitable contributions, etc.  State laws vary, but often some food, clothing, and many other things are not subject to sales tax.