can i claim these other taxes i paid from my paycheck?

Question by JoeSniper: can i claim these other taxes i paid from my paycheck?
i pay “occupational privilage tax” and “unemployment tax” as well as “medicare tax” all of which are deducted from my paychecks… can I claim these taxes paid when doing my tax return (i use TurboTax)?
Occupational tax and Unemployement tax do NOT show up on my W2. I added them in the “Tax Deduction Worksheet” in TurboTax under 4e “other taxes” and it DOES change my Refund… is this legal?

Best answer:

Answer by v b
The occupational tax can in theory show up on your schedule A, but unless your total for that section on the schedule A is more than 2% of your AGI, it won’t do you any good.

The other taxes won’t help a bit.

Since these are on your W-2 and you are using Turbo, let Turbo do it’s job–it will use anything it can find on the W-2 to lower your tax.

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