Countries designated electoral democracies in Freedom House's 2016 survey Freedom in the World, covering the year 2016. Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative republic, or psephocracy) is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.
3. Deduct the points over the life of the loan if you cannot meet all of the requirements to deduct them immediately. If your loan is for 30 years then you can deduct 1/30th of the points each year on your taxes.Typically you must deduct the points on a refinance mortgage over the life of the loan unless part of the refinance proceeds are used to improve the main home.. Deduct the points over the life of the loan if you cannot meet all of the requirements to deduct them immediately. If your loan is for 30 years then you can deduct 1/30th of the points each year on your taxes.
Repayment over $3,000. Repayment over $3,000. If the amount you repaid was more than $3,000, you can deduct the repayment (as explained under Type of deduction, earlier). However, you can choose instead to take a tax credit for the year of repayment if you included the income under a claim of right. Refigure your tax from the earlier year without including in income the amount you repaid in 2014. 2  Subtract the tax in (2) from the tax shown on your return for the earlier year. 3  This is the credit. 4  Subtract the answer in (3) from the tax for 2014 figured without the deduction (Step 1).