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Updated almost 5 years ago on . Most recent reply
Interest/Property taxes/Insurance deduction in CA - How it works?
I bought the first house in CA ( Contra Costa) - 350k.
I'm working as a full-time employee, software engineer, making around 126k per year.
How much I can deduct:
1)interest (1st year is about 9.5k interest payments).
2)property taxes (I heard maximum deduction for prop taxes - 10’000)
3)home insurance
Can I deduct them all? How is it works? - After filing all taxes should expect that I will get back around 19.5 k back to my account from IRS? or it means (126'000 - 19'500 = 106'500 is my taxable income and I will get back 30% from this 19'500)
Most Popular Reply

You can deduct your mortgage interest (all of it since your loan is less than $1 million) and your state and local taxes up to $10,000 (the rule since the new tax law in 2017). You typically cannot deduct insurance cost on a primary residence. If the Democrats win the Congress and White House in November there is a good chance you will see the return of the unlimited SALT (state and local tax) deduction.