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Probably down. Taxes will be done soon. I know I paid less throughout the year.



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Posts: 7993 | Location: Cleveland, OH | Registered: August 09, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Wife and I are using Turbo Tax...

For some reason when entering the house mortgage interest and property taxes, our amount owed did not decrease.

That is because the standard deduction for 2018 increased to $24,000 (MFJ) from 12,700. Property taxes and State taxes are capped at $10k for SALT deducted. This just means your SALT and mortgage interest was below $24,000, and you are (likely) better off.


Mortgage interest and property taxes were just over $15K. As we were entering the info, we could see amount owed increase or decrease until we entered the info in question, them nothing. The amount owed neither increased nor decreased. Frown


Exactly. Last year, you would have benefitted from itemized deductions. This year, you do not. Think about it as a $9,000 deducted you did not get last year. You benefitted. The tax software knows that only 10% of people will itemized now, so it gave you the standard deduction ($24,000), which is more than your itemized deductions $15,000.
 
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Just read another “news” report from NBC News. It was outright lies. Never once discussed the net decrease in income taxes paid. Focused solely on refunds. Less refunds are bad apparently, even if your actual tax burden decreases. We are fucked if people can’t understand basic monetary issues. This isn’t commodities trading, its basic tax understanding. It’s like the people who think that if they make more money that they will take home less because of the higher tax bracket.

We need an education system that doesn’t forego math. Because that lack is showing right now in this country.


Stuart Varney was pushing the same nonsense, saying something like returns are 8% less for millions of Americans.

I haven't done my taxes yet so I don't know where I stand at the moment.


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We’re sending our tax info to our lady today.

With our rental and repairs being amortized, I don’t fully understand the math, but our rough guess is a lower rate, and a neutral return/payment. That’s our goal every year.




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Wife and I are using Turbo Tax...

For some reason when entering the house mortgage interest and property taxes, our amount owed did not decrease.

That is because the standard deduction for 2018 increased to $24,000 (MFJ) from 12,700. Property taxes and State taxes are capped at $10k for SALT deducted. This just means your SALT and mortgage interest was below $24,000, and you are (likely) better off.


Mortgage interest and property taxes were just over $15K. As we were entering the info, we could see amount owed increase or decrease until we entered the info in question, them nothing. The amount owed neither increased nor decreased. Frown

Saw the same thing when I started entering our usual deductions. Software said deductions were capped and we had reached the Cap

Our Federal Tax liability about tripled from last year...from about $2700 to $8300 that I'll have to write a check for




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Got ours done and we owe money this year. Got several thousand back last year. Salaries and exemptions are similar over the 2 years. I did notice my paycheck increase by a small amount early last year but apparently we should've lowered our exemptions by 1 or 2 to make up for the changed tax laws. Kinda sucks as we were expecting a bit of a return but at least we don't owe much. Lesson learned for this year...
 
Posts: 436 | Location: Virginia | Registered: October 10, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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My income went up in 2018 and my taxes went down. By a lot. Mostly due to the extra $1,000 tax credit for each kid and we have 3 kids. A good portion of my income comes in the form of bonuses which are inconsistent and have more taxes taken out of them, so I've stopped trying to figure out how to not get a refund and not owe much money and just take the refund.

2018 I made $9K more than '17 but had $2300 less in taxes taken out in '18 and my refund still went up a $1,000


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Posts: 2901 | Location: RDU, NC | Registered: March 07, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Down, from $7,251 to $3,914. Or else I made a big mistake.

2017 tax was $9,414 before subtracting child tax credits

2018 was $10,550 before subtracting child tax credits/credit for other dependents.

In 2017 I claimed myself, wife, and 3 dependents.
In 2018, I acquired a 4th dependent (grandson).

The dependent exemption is "gone" but you still list them, and I guess somehow get credit for them.
 
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Had ours done yesterday. I didn't make any changes to my withholdings last year. End result was about the same small refund we have had the past several years. CPA did point out that the $24,000 standard deduction morphs into about $16,0000 somehow.
 
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Interesting so far. It’s more mixed than I would have expected.


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Had ours done yesterday. I didn't make any changes to my withholdings last year. End result was about the same small refund we have had the past several years. CPA did point out that the $24,000 standard deduction morphs into about $16,0000 somehow.


Probably because of the loss of personal exemptions for a married couple.

https://money.usnews.com/money...isappeared-this-year

2. Personal exemptions. The increased standardized deduction will be welcome news for many households, but there's a catch: Personal exemptions have been eliminated. While not technically a deduction, the exemption allowed taxpayers to subtract $4,050 from their taxable income for each dependent they claimed, so eliminating it is a significant loss for families. The increased standard deduction helps soften the blow of losing personal exemptions, but it might not make up for it entirely, says Mark Jaeger, director of tax development for TaxAct, a provider of tax preparation software and services.
 
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Taxes went down. Got married so went from ~$17k itemized deductions plus her $6,350 standard deduction, totaling $23,350 to $24,000 with us claiming the standard deduction. So we are paying taxes on $650 less income at 24% marginal tax rate vs 28% as well as the lower rates on the lower tax brackets. So we are paying slightly less.

If we waited to 2018 to get married then I could have itemized $17k plus her $12K standard deduction and we would have really, really saved some money this year. Either way we are saving money as just about all people should be.



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Had ours done yesterday. I didn't make any changes to my withholdings last year. End result was about the same small refund we have had the past several years. CPA did point out that the $24,000 standard deduction morphs into about $16,0000 somehow.


Probably because of the loss of personal exemptions for a married couple.

https://money.usnews.com/money...isappeared-this-year

2. Personal exemptions. The increased standardized deduction will be welcome news for many households, but there's a catch: Personal exemptions have been eliminated. While not technically a deduction, the exemption allowed taxpayers to subtract $4,050 from their taxable income for each dependent they claimed, so eliminating it is a significant loss for families. The increased standard deduction helps soften the blow of losing personal exemptions, but it might not make up for it entirely, says Mark Jaeger, director of tax development for TaxAct, a provider of tax preparation software and services.


Yeah, this is what may hurt people that have no children. A lot of people with kids are benefiting from the increased child tax credit along with the change in income cutoff for that credit. It used to be if you made $55K or under you got a $1000 child tax credit. You would lose $50 of the $1000 for every $1000 over 55K you make. The child tax credit has increased to $2K under Trump and doesn't start to decrease until income is over 200K. That got me $2000 that I hadn't gotten previously. In addition to that the standard deduction increase more than covered what I lost from the personal and 1 child deduction.




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Vanguard posted their combined tax form this weekend (to be fair, they did say mid-February). I just filed through H&R Block. My effective tax rate (total tax divided by taxable income) was 16.14% for 2017 and 19.99% for 2018.

I'm a poor choice for comparison as:
  • my taxes were incredibly complex 2014 to 2017 due to my expat assignment in Canada. For example, 2017 taxes were greatly reduced by foreign tax credit, but since my employer paid my foreign taxes I had to mail a pretty substantial check to my employer for the foreign tax credit.
  • I discontinued making charitable donations to a charity that I had supported for over 15 years. Back in the day, I used to know their CEO (e.g. been to his home in Rwanda twice. He was their manager of a 3 country region in Africa prior to becoming CEO) and had at least met a previous CEO, and they did great Christian ministry work in the 3rd world. I hadn't realized that as senior staff retired they changed from promoting missionaries up through the ranks to hiring accountants from Big 4 accounting firms, added a VP position for brand management (always a bad sign for a charity), and had begun bringing refugees to the US and getting big money from the 0bama admin for doing it. They had become addicted to living off the US Gov't teat, and when the Trump admin cut-off/decreased their refugee funding they started letters to donors requesting more donations and complaining about Trump. Fuck 'em, I cut them off too.



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    Got the full child tax credit for one kid (which I made too much for prior to Trump changes) plus the increased standard deduction. I’m pretty happy.


    pretty much my situation. My effective tax rate according to turbo tax is 1.4% less this year compared to last year.

    I too am pretty happy.


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    I paid more but made more. I don’t have a fixed salary.


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    Posts: 13190 | Location: Charlotte, NC | Registered: May 07, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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    Refunds have nothing to do with the question. Your income has nothing has nothing with the question. Neither does your withholding. I had an increase of $3300 in my standard deduction therefore my taxes were $330 less this year compared to what they would have been using the 2017 formula. 10% tax bracket. Increase in income and lower rate of tax deductions. That's about half of the cost of the S&W 617 I am look at. I am happy and will be voting for Trump again.
     
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    Taxes went down, I made more money, paid in less and total tax bill was about 1100 less than last year.


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    Posts: 125 | Location: Southern Missouri | Registered: November 25, 2016Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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    it's funny how many people made more in 2018. Partly the result of corp taxes going down, therefore more for the employees??????

    (Obviously doesn't apply to all, but maybe for some)


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    Posts: 10860 | Location: 45 miles from the Pacific Ocean | Registered: February 28, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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    Just did my Federal return. Effective rate dropped from 15% to 12%. 2017 refund $241, 2018 refund $958. Even though I was on medical leave for 10 weeks & made less money than 2017. Very happy that my tax rate decreased. Smile

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