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Calculator: Effect of Higher SALT Cap in 2025 Trump Tax Law

Use this calculator to see the effect on your total deductions and your taxes from the SALT cap increase in the 2025 Trump tax law.

A deep dive into “No Tax on Overtime” in the new 2025 Trump tax law, with a calculator to estimate tax savings. It’s not what you think.

A deep dive into “no tax on tips” in the new 2025 Trump tax law, with a calculator to estimate tax savings. What qualifies and what doesn’t?

If you get health insurance from ACA, the government sets the percentages of income you are expected to contribute toward a benchmark policy.

Some tax deductions are neither above-the-line nor itemized. They’re available if you take the standard deduction, but they don’t lower your AGI.

The 2025 Trump tax law adds a new tax deduction for charity donations when you don’t itemize and lowers the deduction when you do, starting in 2026.

The 2025 Trump tax law made car loan interest deductible with many strings and only temporarily. See what qualifies and what does not.

The 2025 new Trump tax law didn’t extend the enhanced ACA premium subsidy. Manage your income carefully to stay under the tax credit cliff.

2025 and 2026 HSA contribution limits and HDHP qualifications for individual and family coverage. Small changes in 2026 due to mild inflation.

Follow this detailed walkthrough of how to report a Roth conversion in FreeTaxUSA after recharacterizing a Roth IRA contribution in the same year.