"PeterL" <po.n...[at]gmail.com> wrote:
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I wold think this would be to your advantage because if you
didn't itemize in 2005 you wouldn't get the full advantage
of the deduction in 2005. However, did they account for
your taxes to NOT include taxes prior to date of your
purchase?. Since they report both years the same it looks
like they included prior owner's tax.

ed

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usm...[at]gmail.com wrote:

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Take the deduction at the year it was paid. In this case
yes, take all of $14,000 for your 2006 tax return.

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I bought my house at 09/2005, and use Escrow service
provided by wellsfargo to pay property tax. due to the
ignorance of wellsfargo, they didn't pay the property tax of
2005 for me until Jan 2006. As a result, in the form they
sent, for year of 2006, the total amount of property tax
paid is actually 2005 tax amount (7000) + 2006 tax amount
(7000) = 14000... should I just use this number $14000 for
my tax return? (I didn't do any itemization last year)

Thanks

Weiwei

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