Create 2025 Schedule A Form 1040

1. Taxpayer Information

Name(s) shown on Form 1040 or 1040-SR

Social Security Number

Filing status Sets the line 5e SALT limit and the standard deduction comparison. If you are married filing separately and your spouse itemizes, you must itemize too.

2. Medical and Dental Expenses

Do not include expenses reimbursed or paid by others. The 2025 medical mileage rate is 21 cents per mile.

1. Medical and dental expenses

$

2. Amount from Form 1040 or 1040-SR, line 11b (AGI)

$

Line 2 is also used to calculate the line 5e SALT limit.

3. Multiply line 2 by 7.5% (0.075)

$

4. Subtract line 3 from line 1. If line 3 is more than line 1, enter -0-

$

3. Taxes You Paid

Line 5a can include state and local income taxes or general sales taxes, but not both.

5a election: I am including general sales taxes instead of income taxes on line 5a.

5a. State and local income taxes or general sales taxes

$

5b. State and local real estate taxes

$

5c. State and local personal property taxes

$

5d. Add lines 5a through 5c

$

5e. Smaller of line 5d or your SALT limit ($40,000, or $20,000 if married filing separately)

$

Your SALT limit is $40,000. If line 2 plus any excluded income is over $500,000 ($250,000 if married filing separately), the limit drops by 30% of the excess, but not below $10,000 ($5,000 if married filing separately).

Excluded income for the SALT limit (Optional)

$

Only if you filed Form 2555 or Form 4563 or excluded Puerto Rico income: enter Form 2555 lines 45 and 50, Form 4563 line 15, and the excluded Puerto Rico income. Used only to calculate line 5e and not printed on the form.

6. Other taxes: type

6. Other taxes: amount

$

7. Add lines 5e and 6

$

4. Interest You Paid

Your mortgage interest deduction may be limited. See the IRS instructions.

Line 8: I did not use all of my home mortgage loan(s) to buy, build, or improve my home.

8a. Home mortgage interest and points reported to you on Form 1098

$

8b. Home mortgage interest not reported to you on Form 1098

$

8b: I paid this interest to the person from whom I bought the home.

8c. Points not reported on Form 1098

$

8e. Add lines 8a through 8c (line 8d is reserved for future use)

$

9. Investment interest. Attach Form 4952 if required

$

10. Add lines 8e and 9

$

5. Gifts to Charity

If you got a benefit for a gift, deduct only the amount above its value. Any single gift of $250 or more needs a written acknowledgment, and noncash gifts over $500 need Form 8283. The 2025 charitable mileage rate is 14 cents per mile.

11. Gifts by cash or check

$

12. Gifts other than by cash or check

$

13. Carryover from prior year

$

14. Add lines 11 through 13

$

6. Casualty, Theft, and Other Itemized Deductions

15. Casualty and theft losses (Form 4684, line 18)

$

Line 15 is for federally declared disaster losses other than net qualified disaster losses. Attach Form 4684.

16. Other itemized deductions from the IRS list: type

16. Other itemized deductions: amount

$

7. Total Itemized Deductions

17. Add lines 4 through 16. Enter on Form 1040 or 1040-SR, line 12e

$

Select a filing status to compare line 17 with the 2025 base standard deduction. Your actual standard deduction can differ if you are age 65 or older, blind, a dependent, or otherwise subject to special rules.

18. I elect to itemize deductions even though they are less than my standard deduction.

8. Contact Information

Email is optional and is stored with your form record. Your completed PDF is downloaded from the Summary page.

Email address (Optional)

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Create Your 2025 Schedule A (Form 1040) Online

1. Taxpayer Information

2. Medical and Dental Expenses

3. Taxes You Paid

4. Interest You Paid

5. Gifts to Charity

6. Casualty, Theft, and Other Itemized Deductions

7. Total Itemized Deductions

8. Contact Information

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