Ninth Circuit Liberalizes Mortgage Deductibility For Unmarrieds

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (our jurisdiction) recently reversed the Tax Court and potentially handed unmarried mortgage debtors a significant windfall.

The panel’s decision involved the debt limit provisions – recall that the Internal Revenue Code has long allowed taxpayers to deduct interest on up to $1 million of home acquisition debt and $100,000 of home equity debt.  The case of Voss v. Comm. involved two unmarried co-owners of real property.  Voss and Sophy are domestic partners registered with the State of California.  They co-own two homes as joint tenants – one in Rancho Mirage, California and the other, their primary residence, in Beverly Hills, California.Read More