Today TaxMama hears from Brandi in Indiana. She asks. “Can you deduct your mortgage payment for a rental property after the insurance, interest and taxes have been deducted?
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Dear Brandi,
Are you talking about the mortgage principal?
The part of the payment that reduces your loan balance?
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Of course you can’t deduct it.
That’s you, paying yourself, increasing your equity in the property. You’re already deducting the cost of the asset when you take depreciation.
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(You ARE taking depreciation, right?)
I have seen people get so angry about not being able to deduct loan principal – especially when they make a big principal payment. In fact, I had a client whose boyfriend lent her $50,000 to pay off the Nautilus equipment loan for her gym. She actually stopped talking to me when I refused to take that principal payoff as a deduction. I can see how hard it can be to understand that you’ve already used that deduction (or are using it via current depreciation) when you’re writing that big check.
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