Itemized Deductions Calculator is an excel template. It helps the taxpayer to choose between Standard and Itemized Deductions.
A taxpayer needs to choose between itemized or standard deduction while filing the federal tax returns.
The standard deduction is a fixed dollar amount to be deducted from taxable income with no questions asked. Whereas the itemized deductions are actual amounts of deductions claimed.
When deciding between standard and itemized deductions the following points must be considered:
To know more about itemized deductions click on the link below:
We have created an Itemized Deductions Calculator with predefined formulas. This template helps you easily estimate your itemized deductions.
Click here to download the Itemized Deductions calculator Excel Template.
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You can download other excel templates like Simple Tax Estimator, Traditional IRA Calculator, Roth IRA Calculator and much more for easy calculations.
Let us discuss the contents of the template in detail.
Itemized Deductions Calculator consists of 2 main sections:
Usually, the header section consists of the name of the company, company logo and heading of the template ” Itemized Deductions Calculator”.
Additionally, it consists of your Adjusted Gross Income. To easily calculate your adjusted gross income you can use our Adjusted Gross Income Calculator.
The calculation section consists two columns; Particulars and amounts. The particulars section has all types expenses reported under Itemized Deductions. The amounts columns contain the respective amounts of expenses.
These expenses have been categorized into 5 different types:
This category reposts the medical, dental and insurance premium expenses that are above 10 % of your Adjusted Gross Income(AGI) as the laws.
You need to enter your actual expenses. With predefined formulas, it will automatically subtotal the amounts and calculate the amount higher than 10% of your AGI.
State and local income taxes, State and local sales taxes, real estate and other personal property taxes are reported in this head.
Enter the actual amounts and it will automatically sum up the total for you.
This category reports the home mortgage interests paid, student loan interest, interests paid or received on investments and other interest related expenses.
Just enter the amounts in the respective cells and it will sum them up.
Donation of in the form of gifts or in form of cash amount are reported under this category. Similar to the above categories enter the respective amounts and totals will automatically appear.
Under the miscellaneous category, expenses related to losses due to theft or casualty, non-reimbursed employer expenses, tax preparation fees and losses to the extents of gambling winning are reported.
Entering the respective amounts will calculate the totals for you.
At the end, adding the subtotals of all categories gives you the amount of Itemized deductions.
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