Dr. Friday explains what the SALT deduction includes and why the cap increase matters for itemizers. She also discusses how bunching expenses may help, but only if you itemize.

G’day, I’m Dr. Friday, president of Dr. Friday’s Tax and Financial Firm. To get more info, go to www.drfriday.com. This is a one-minute moment.

The SALT tax. You guys have heard talk about this many times. That’s where you put in your property tax, and your state income, or for us, sales tax, and it’s always had, these last few years, a limit of $10,000.

Well, guess what? It’s going up to $40,000. So for many of you that used to do bunching, where we’d pay our property taxes twice, we’d do our sales tax, and we’d add it all up, and we’d buy the bigger things in the years we’re doing this bunching, that’s the way we’re going to start putting more money in our pocket.

Now remember, you still have to meet the itemization before you can take a dollar off your tax return. Check us out, drfriday.com.

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