home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky misc.taxes:3924 misc.invest:15621
- Newsgroups: misc.taxes,misc.invest
- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!ask
- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: is itemizing always better than fixed deductions ?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 18:49:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.184900.22645@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1huv2gINN57r@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Lines: 22
-
- In article <1huv2gINN57r@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jxs18@po.CWRU.Edu (Jerry Sy) writes:
- >Is it true that itemizing deductions is always better (meaning less taxes
- >to pay) than just taking the fixed deductions (say from 1040EZ) ?
- >
- >I am married (wife has no income), no mortgage payments, no loan payments,
- >no interest payments (in short, I don't owe anything), don't have IRA,
- >don't have 401k (I'm definitely getting 401k jan 1).
- >
- >I know I read somewhere (probably in Wealth without Risk) that says you
- >always pay less tax if you itemize, but no matter how I compute it,
- >the fixed deduction is always higher than what I can itemize. Am I
- >missing something ?
-
- Nope.
-
- If you have no significant deductions, then take the standard
- deduction.
-
- (BTW IRAs and 401k's are not relevant to whether or not you itemize
- or take the standard decuction.)
- --
- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
-