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Preface to All Parts: Having gone through hundreds of charts, I’ve plucked out 52 enticing short setups for the week ahead. I have broken these into four posts of thirteen charts each. Parts 2 and 4 will be for Gold/Diamond members alone, and Parts 1 and 3 are for everyone:
Some of you may recall that a component of last year’s tax reforms was a $10,000 limit on State And Local Taxes (SALT) which includes, important, property taxes on real estate. I had sort of forgotten about this until I begin very crudely roughing out our taxes for 2018 and noticed this:
As you can see, the deduction would formerly have been $13,945, but thanks to the new law, POOF!, about $4,000 is no longer deductible. Those have to be AFTER tax dollars. Keep in mind, I had only calculated property tax on our house: this doesn’t include state and local taxes (which for some folks can be really significant).
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