Gambling Loss Deductions 2021

  
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If you gamble, you may not feel like as much of a winner come tax season next year. Changes in the State of Oklahoma tax law a limiting how much you can write off as a 'loss.'

'I see this for Oklahoman's as like the gambling penalty,' said Eileen Robinson, the head accountant at Gardner's Tax Services Inc.

Gambling Loss Deduction 2017

Gambling loss tax deduction

The amount of gambling losses you can deduct can never exceed the winnings you report as income. For example, if you have $5,000 in winnings but $8,000 in losses, your deduction is limited to $5,000. You could not write off the remaining $3,000, or carry it forward to future years.

Gambling Losses. You may deduct gambling losses only if you itemize your deductions on Schedule A (Form 1040 or 1040-SR) PDF and kept a record of your winnings and losses. The amount of losses you deduct can't be more than the amount of gambling income you reported on your return. In addition to the other answers indicating that losses are only deductible against winnings, the manner in which that deduction occurs is not a dollar for dollar write off. First of all, you declare your winnings and it gets added to your income. You must itemize your deductions to claim your gambling losses as a tax deduction. This means you can’t take the standard deduction for your filing status, which often amounts to more than a taxpayer’s itemized deductions. You’re allowed to deduct losses only up to the amount of the gambling. Examples of what you may be able to deduct include gambling losses, casualty and theft losses from an income-producing property you own, unrecovered investments in a pension, and impairment-related work expenses if you have a disability. To learn about other itemizable deductions, see the IRS instructions for Schedule A.

Itemized Deductions 2021

In previous years, you could write off your total gambling losses in your adjusted income which is what you can still do for federal taxes, but for Oklahoma state taxes, you can't do that anymore.

'For federal you have to show in the income on the 1040, your schedule 'A' is where you take your itemized deductions and that's where you right off your gambling losses,' Robinson said. 'In Oklahoma, they limited the amount of itemized deductions you can take, you can take all of your donations but it limits the rest of it to that 17,000.'

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This means you'll have to pay income tax for the total amount of big jackpots.

In the past, if you lost money while gambling, then won, you could deduct those losses from your winnings then only pay the tax on the difference.

'Now when you win that money you're going to have to pay the taxes whether you out that money back into the machine or not,' Robinson said.

Something that Robinson says has been an unpleasant surprise for her clients this year.

'They're in shock, most of them didn't know and of course not until we got ready to do their taxes,' Robinson explains.

It may be too late to make the adjustment this year, but there are ways to prepare for the tax change next season.

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'I'd say 5% of all their winnings needs to be set aside to send in' Robinson said. 'So lets say if you won something you need to make sure you set back enough to be able to pay the taxes for the state and try not to plug that into the machine.'

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Gambling Loss Deduction 2018

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