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- From: cc100aa@xray.gatech.edu (Ray Spalding)
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- Subject: Re: are mortgage points tax-deductible?
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:47:43 GMT
- References: <1747@rwja.umdnj.edu> <Dec.23.09.18.05.1992.3739@yoko.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Dec.23.09.18.05.1992.3739@yoko.rutgers.edu> majidi@yoko.rutgers.edu (Masoud Majidi) writes:
- >For conventional mortgages if you have paid the points out of your pocket
- >(I didn't know that there was another way of paying anything) if you use
- >the house as your primary residence and if your income is below $102,xxx
- >then the points are fully duductible in the year purchase was made.
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- As I recall, points that qualify as interest are always deductible;
- the issue is whether they can be deducted all in the year they are
- paid, or have to be spread over the life of the loan.
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- I think points paid in the purchase of a primary residence may be
- deducted in full that year; points paid in a refinance must be
- spread out.
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