They won't be listed on the mortgage-interest document. From Wordnik.com. [Avoid March madness at the tax preparer's office] Reference
Last year, it eliminated the mortgage-interest deduction. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland] Reference
Eliminating the mortgage-interest deduction for second homes. From Wordnik.com. [Geoffrey Anderson: Wasteful Development Subsidies Among Cuts Proposed by Debt Commission] Reference
And don't even get me started on the mortgage-interest deduction. From Wordnik.com. [The welfare state for the middle class] Reference
Lacking much income, they didn't benefit from the mortgage-interest deduction. From Wordnik.com. [Let Houses Find a Bottom] Reference
Journal Community Vote: What should the federal government do with the mortgage-interest tax deduction?. From Wordnik.com. [Homeowner Perks Under Fire] Reference
Shrinking the mortgage-interest deduction may or may not be your idea of a fair and reasonable policy change. From Wordnik.com. [Bursting the bubble about the causes of the housing bubble] Reference
The higher the marginal tax rate rises, the more valuable the mortgage-interest deduction is to the homeowner. From Wordnik.com. [A Government Failure, Not a Market Failure] Reference
The deficit commission has taken aim at one of the sacred cows of the tax code: the mortgage-interest deduction. From Wordnik.com. [Top Earners May Face Big Hit] Reference
The real-estate industry, for example, has repeatedly fended off efforts to curb the mortgage-interest deduction. From Wordnik.com. [Top Earners May Face Big Hit] Reference
Tax expenditures like the mortgage-interest deduction also tend to get a pass, but here they come under the knife. From Wordnik.com. [The best and the worst of the fiscal commission's final report] Reference
Treasurys for mortgage-backed securities to arrest the decline in prices that is pushing up mortgage-interest rates. From Wordnik.com. [Brainstorming About 'Bailouts'] Reference
The Obama campaign says 98% of people who would be eligible for the proposed mortgage-interest deduction are employed. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Economic Aide Defends Tax Plan] Reference
During the presidential campaign, Mr. Obama proposed a 10% mortgage-interest tax credit for homeowners who don't itemize. From Wordnik.com. [Mortgage Deduction Looks Less Sacred] Reference
Similarly, the mortgage-interest deduction encouraged an overinvestment in housing, and did so at the expense of renters. From Wordnik.com. [Let's begin to think big about the tax code] Reference
Some lawmakers questioned whether it was smart to reduce mortgage-interest deductions in the midst of a housing-market crisis. From Wordnik.com. [White House Rethinks Tax Hikes] Reference
Canada has neither a Fannie Mae nor a mortgage-interest tax deduction, and yet its homeownership rate is higher than America's. From Wordnik.com. [Barney to Fannie: Drop Dead] Reference
Excluding mortgage-interest costs, the May CPI was down 1.2% from a year earlier, the country's Central Statistics Office said. From Wordnik.com. [Risk of Deflation Rises in Ireland] Reference
The government wants to prevent almost all involuntary repossessions, through, for example, a mortgage-interest deferral scheme. From Wordnik.com. [What worries voters most] Reference
The deficit panel ' s co-chairmen will recommend eliminating the mortgage-interest deduction and raising the retirement age to 68. From Wordnik.com. [What] Reference
For a family with a modest income that may pay little or no income tax, the mortgage-interest deduction is worth virtually nothing. From Wordnik.com. [A Government Failure, Not a Market Failure] Reference
The plan calls for a temporary freeze on low, introductory mortgage-interest rates that would otherwise jump higher in the next few years. From Wordnik.com. [Hitting Reset] Reference
Some have blamed the mortgage-interest deduction, in part, for spurring borrowers to take out larger mortgages in order to maximize their subsidy. From Wordnik.com. [Mortgage Deduction Looks Less Sacred] Reference
The president's budget takes on what has long been considered a sacred cow by trying to reduce the mortgage-interest tax deduction for top earners. From Wordnik.com. [Mortgage Deduction Looks Less Sacred] Reference
Some of President Obama's top economic advisers have called for a refundable tax credit that would replace the current mortgage-interest deduction. From Wordnik.com. [Mortgage Deduction Looks Less Sacred] Reference
After prompting from an IRS auditor, the agency will study whether it should make greater use of data on mortgage-interest payments provided to it by banks. From Wordnik.com. [IRS to Mine Payment Data on Mortgages] Reference
Financial-market turmoil means mortgage-interest rates are rising sharply despite the central bank's three-quarter-percentage-point rate cuts since December. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak Economic Signs Spread in Europe] Reference
But economists have also faulted the mortgage-interest deduction for inflating prices in supply-constrained markets such as Manhattan and coastal California. From Wordnik.com. [Mortgage Deduction Looks Less Sacred] Reference
By contrast, reducing the mortgage-interest tax break for most people and eliminating the deduction for property taxes would make owning a home more expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Big Guys Win Again. This Is Tax Reform?] Reference
The Hungarian forint's weakness in recent months has led to higher mortgage-interest payments for households already suffering from a sharp slowdown in the economy. From Wordnik.com. [Where Rates Are on the Rise] Reference
Early on, Mr. Obama proposed cutting the value of mortgage-interest and charitable-contributions deductions for people in the highest tax brackets to pay for the plan. From Wordnik.com. [A Clear Signal on Total Cost, Less Clarity on How to Pay] Reference
The NAR says the index, which gauges affordability using home prices, mortgage-interest rates, and income, is the highest since it started tracking this information in 1970. From Wordnik.com. [By the Numbers: Housing Affordability Index hits record high. Should you dive in to the market?] Reference
And all the rest of us -- the millions of middle-class Americans who rely on massive subsidies like the mortgage-interest deduction -- can say we admire them for their pluck. From Wordnik.com. [The Entitlement Trap] Reference
Meanwhile, mortgage-interest rates for people who have good credit records and enough savings for a sizable down payment have fallen to around 5%, the lowest level in decades. From Wordnik.com. [Price Cuts Spur Home Sales] Reference
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