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12 Things You Can’t Deduct From Your Taxes

By Our Editorial Team  |  Published October 21, 2022

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How much do you know about the things you can deduct from your taxes?

If you want to pay less for your taxes, you can take all the deductions you’re eligible for. This will either increase your refund or reduce your tax liability. That’s really good news if you want to keep as much of your hard-earned money as you can, but there’s a downside to it as well.

There are quite a few restrictions on what you are able to deduct. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 caused a major change in the United States tax structure. This new rule will affect all income tax returns filed between 2018 and 2025, which is when each part of the Act is set to end.

We wanted to give you all the info you need, so we talked to a few experts to find out more about this topic. Check out these 12 costs that you can’t write off on your taxes.

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36 responses to “12 Things You Can’t Deduct From Your Taxes”

  1. Mary MacGillivary says:
    November 15, 2022 at 8:47 pm

    Very Helpful!

    Reply
  2. Sharon Omdahl says:
    January 4, 2023 at 11:28 am

    It wasn’t Biden it was Trump. He was corrupt

    Reply
    • Juan says:
      January 4, 2023 at 4:26 pm

      Trump didn’t sell INFLUENCE to communist China lie the Biden Organized Crime Family. If our FBI wasn’t so CORRUPT they’d let us know after having the laptop for 3 years that the criminality shown on it is REAL.

      Reply
      • Emma says:
        December 14, 2023 at 9:21 pm

        How crazy .

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    • Baraks Obammy says:
      March 15, 2023 at 5:08 pm

      Communist puppet obiden stashing his 10%, corrupt bastard.

      Reply
    • Al Falfa says:
      March 20, 2023 at 1:14 am

      What did Trump do???? If elected, like he should have been, and really was, he had a tax cut for the middle class all in the works. We also would not be in the trouble we are in now that we never will get out of. Get some smarts. You have no facts just rumors and lies.

      Reply
      • William Cromer says:
        September 1, 2023 at 3:25 pm

        You will see facts( hard vetted proven evidence live on TV … Then will you maybe consider it?? I’m serious! Or will you say that everybody’s corrupt like he does with your Pockrus? He lies in the fact that he is corrupt.!

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        • marsha rachford says:
          April 3, 2024 at 2:00 pm

          Care to post some of those “facts” you refer to or is it just easier to post talking points and think you are making your point and everyone will just nod along and agree with you???

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      • T tomkins says:
        December 14, 2023 at 3:53 pm

        The tax cut is nothing more than taking less out of your paycheck in taxes so you could spend more money, enriching the wealthy further. Your taxes due at the end of the year we’re still the same 87% of taxpayers received a lower return than usual, or had to pay more by April 15. As a narcissist, trump is incapable of doing anything that doesn’t benefit him.

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        • marsha rachford says:
          April 3, 2024 at 1:58 pm

          omg, you think allowing individuals to spend their hard earned money rather than the gov taking part, taking a percent off the top for “administrative costs” laudering it for their pet people/projects, is a BAD thing???? Communist ideas surely flourish in the leftists. Scary. Where has communism worked – for anyone besides the elit???

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      • Emma says:
        December 14, 2023 at 9:23 pm

        What tax cut for the middle class? The tax cut he did pass while in office was not for the middle class. How do you reconcile that he did pass one for the wealthy but not for the middle class? Oh right, tax cuts for regular people are handouts! Nevermind.

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    • R M says:
      March 20, 2023 at 4:40 pm

      Doesn’t say much about self employed people. I always keep receipts and take off clearly business related expenses. As for biden or trump, biden is clearly the worst with his exec orders, worthless cabinet, and dumping illegal immigrants on American tax payers!

      Reply
    • r m says:
      March 20, 2023 at 4:43 pm

      The democrat congress repealed citizen friendly deductions thanks to expenses biden dumped on taxpayers.

      Reply
    • Phil says:
      March 23, 2023 at 5:29 pm

      They’re all corrupt.

      Reply
      • A Smith says:
        September 1, 2023 at 2:14 pm

        Yes they are corrupt

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      • Alexandra Nguyen says:
        April 3, 2024 at 6:13 pm

        Agreed!! Trump just talks and talks how he is going to bring “America to greatness” but neither one has done Anything for the people of this country is always the same argument abortion and immigration.. There are MANY other topics they should focus on. Sadly this yr we don’t have a strong leader for the future.

        Reply
    • Cindy says:
      December 14, 2023 at 1:49 pm

      So true

      Reply
    • Ann Marie says:
      December 15, 2023 at 2:00 am

      You don’t know too much. Biden is the corrupt one who sold out this country and you to many countries especially China.

      Reply
    • Ellen Fox says:
      December 15, 2023 at 2:28 am

      No, the Democrats controlled Congress and they did it! Even though it was Trump’s first year as President. They didn’t work with the president on anything.

      Reply
    • Ms.Q says:
      February 4, 2024 at 4:25 pm

      Absolutely 💯

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    • Miss Vee says:
      February 5, 2024 at 11:25 am

      Trump is cunning and shrewd, but since he has been a con man all his life, couldn’t use that to positively impact his running of the country. He set those deductions to run out in the term of whoever beat him in the election so that people would think he did something good for them and that his successor took it away. If he won, he could just extend it like nothing happened without regard for the impact the cuts have on the national economy.

      Reply
  3. Brian says:
    January 4, 2023 at 3:53 pm

    Just more ways to rip off taxpayers. Whatever did we do before someone thought up this way to make revenue? How about a super simple tax that is equal for everyone and gets rid of tax lawyers, and a lot of the IRS? Make it a flat tax across the board. If you are in business and make money, you pay the tax. La-de-da-de everybody in business. Individuals, companies, corporations. Ben Carson has the most perfect plan to accomplish this. The other thing to keep from ripping off the taxpayers is to make government have a balanced budget.

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  4. Juan says:
    January 4, 2023 at 4:29 pm

    The FBI has had Hunter Biden’s laptop for 3 years. Why can’t they tell us if the CORRUPTION by Joe Biden that is shown on the laptop is legitimate. Could it be that the FBI has become the Praetorian Guard for the Democrats….it sure looks that way. Maybe it’s time to defund the FBI…

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    • kim shaheen says:
      April 3, 2024 at 6:34 pm

      The FBI is run by a Trump appointee.

      Reply
  5. Jacquelyn D Coleman says:
    February 10, 2023 at 4:35 pm

    There is less and less that people can claim these dayes. I think there will come a time when you can’t claim anything and we seniors will be taxed on our social security that wa paid into while working!🥲

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    • Janet L McGrew says:
      December 14, 2023 at 4:52 pm

      Actually Social Security money has already been taxed. It was taxed when it was in your gross income before taxes when you got your paycheck that means that the Social Security money that went into Social Security has already been taxed should not be taxed again when you receive it. The IRS is the most corrupt branch of the government taxing us on the money we make before taking out for social security and then taxing us again when we get social security

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    • Rick Sawyer says:
      April 3, 2024 at 7:28 pm

      I’m a tax preparer and have been so for the last 17 years or so. Social security has been taxed every year since the ’80s under Ronald Reagan. If the only income you have is Social security, it’s probably not taxed but if you are a typical middle class retiree with a pension, a portion of your Social Security is taxed. The major tax change that was done under Trump was decreasing the corporate capital gains tax from $37% to 20%, which saved orders of Corporations Millions and do nothing for the rest of us. The tax code was written by rich people for rich people. Most of the folks in Congress from both parties are millionaires. They write the tax code to benefit themselves, not the average person.

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  6. Silvia M Eason says:
    February 10, 2023 at 4:40 pm

    Ever since Biden took office, not only inflation hit, bit 90000 jobs were cut within 30 days. It’s a disgrace the way he handles America and now wants us to pat for the tremendous debt he created by not allowing us to deduct basically nothing. Wow. Shameful

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    • J. W. Christensen says:
      December 15, 2023 at 3:50 am

      He got a tax cut through for the wealthy and some for the middle class; however that ends this year, and middle-class taxes will skyrocket. This was a Trump/Republican bill that was deliberately known that it would run out. Put the blame where it belongs.

      More jobs have been created with Biden than Trump and Bush altogether. Unemployment is at record low; jobs are there if you want to work. Trump ruined America, and now it’s being cleaned up. Stock market hit record high yesterday. Gas, which Biden was blamed for raising and not true, has dropped to $2.75 in my area, which is less than during part of the Trump years. Because of the pandemic and no travel, gas was lower during that time, but when it was over, everyone made up for not traveling, vacations, etc., so gas naturally rose after that. If Biden get the blame for that, now he gets the credit for lowering it.

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    • Miss Vee says:
      February 5, 2024 at 11:29 am

      You do understand that Trump set these deductions to expire during his successor’s term so that he would not be blamed, right?

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    • Patty G says:
      April 4, 2024 at 9:24 pm

      Its a shame in how many people believe lies instead of truth. I wish people would go to the Congress and House web site and verify what has been pass or not. Stop depending on Fox and others to give you the facts. Our economy is the best incomparable to other country around the world. A fact easily vertified. Fact, Trump file bankruptcy, didn’t pay workers, discriminated against minorities and admitted to inflating contracts and costs in accounting. If any professional committed any of theses things they wouldn’t qualify for a licence (lawyer) nor a job. Then when why is the bar set so low for one of the most powerful seat in our nation? Why do some Americans people believe that a Billionaire gives a rats a%$ about you? I will say that Trump Public Relations team is the best because they have put together a campaign that is destroying a nation.

      Reply
  7. Larry hartke says:
    February 10, 2023 at 5:03 pm

    When we will go to a flat tax system, never it’s a conservative ☺️ idea. Yes, I liked the message

    Reply
  8. Shirley Sturgis says:
    March 9, 2023 at 7:46 am

    Thank you for all of this helpful and very informative information.

    Reply
  9. Michael J. says:
    March 23, 2023 at 11:27 am

    Biden should be impeached

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  10. Debbie Mericle says:
    December 14, 2023 at 1:50 pm

    Great info on taxes

    Reply
  11. Teresa says:
    December 14, 2023 at 5:13 pm

    Very helpful information. Thank you!

    Reply

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