SALT deduction after phase-down, filing separately, 2025

This works out one number from the SALT Deduction Limit figures published for 2025. Every amount it uses is below, with the document it was read from. What you enter is your own: this site has no way to check it, and the answer it produces is not a published figure.

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Deduction limit, married filing separately$20,000$20,000
Phase-down threshold (MAGI), married filing separately$250,000$250,000
Phase-down floor, married filing separately$5,000$5,000
Phase-down rate30%

Effective 2025-01-01Source: 2025 Instructions for Schedule A (Form 1040) (IRS)Verified 2026-09-03

How it is worked out

The published maximum in full at or below the published income threshold, reduced by the published rate on the part of your income above it but never taken below the published floor, and then whichever is smaller, that cap or what you entered as paid. Rounded to the nearest cent.

It uses Deduction limit, married filing separately, $20,000 and Phase-down threshold (MAGI), married filing separately, $250,000 and Phase-down rate, 30% and Phase-down floor, married filing separately, $5,000, published above.

Figures in this colour are computed from the amounts above. They are not published figures and no document states them.

Work it out

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Worked out for common amounts

Every row is worked out with state and local taxes paid at 25,000. The calculator above takes your own.
Your modified adjusted gross incomeResult
0$20,000
150,000$20,000
250,000$20,000
300,000$5,000
350,000$5,000
How each figure was verified

Each number below was read from a stored copy of the document named beside it, and checked to occur word for word in the quoted sentence. The digest is of that stored text.

2025 Instructions for Schedule A (Form 1040) (IRS)

Deduction limit, married filing separately
The overall limit on the deduction for state and local income, sales, and property taxes has increased to $40,000 ($20,000 if married filing separately)
Phase-down threshold (MAGI), married filing separately
modified adjusted gross income is more than $500,000 ($250,000 if married filing separately) but will not be reduced below $10,000 ($5,000 if married filing separately).
Phase-down floor, married filing separately
modified adjusted gross income is more than $500,000 ($250,000 if married filing separately) but will not be reduced below $10,000 ($5,000 if married filing separately).
Phase-down rate
Multiply line 6 by 30% (0.30)
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