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.
If the amount you repaid was $3,000 or less, deduct it from your income in the year you repaid it. If you must deduct it as a miscellaneous itemized deduction, enter it on line 22 of Schedule A (Form 1040). Repayment--over $3,000. Refigure your tax from the earlier year without including in income the amount you repaid in 2001. 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 2001 figured without the deduction (step 1).