A new tax break for older Americans could put thousands of dollars back in your pocket this filing season. The so-called "senior bonus deduction" allows eligible taxpayers to deduct up to $6,000 from ...

The sales tax deduction lets you deduct the state and local sales taxes you’ve paid throughout the year, but only if you itemize your deductions. If you live in a state with no income tax or have made ...

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Thanks to provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the standard deduction has been super-sized for seniors: Taxpayers 65 and older can now claim up to an additional $6,000 without itemizing their ...

President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" increased the SALT deduction limit to $40,000 for 2025, up from $10,000 in 2024. The cap reverts to $10,000 in 2030, which leaves five years to leverage ...

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The SALT deduction is only available to taxpayers who itemize their deductions rather than claiming the widely used standard deduction The decision on whether to take the standard deduction or itemize ...

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For example, if your home office is one-tenth of the square footage of your house, you can deduct 10% of the cost of your ...

Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a graduate of the University at Albany. As a former member of CNET's How To team, he wrote about the intersection of policy, information and technology, and ...