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Can you deduct interest paid on an car loan from your taxes?

My brother is able to deduct the interest he pays on his farm equipment, and I’m able to deduct the interest I pay on a student loan… so I was wondering if anyone knows if it’s possible (or legal) to deduct the interest paid on an car loan come tax time?

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This entry was posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 5:09 am and is filed under car loan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

10 Responses to “Can you deduct interest paid on an car loan from your taxes?”

  1. Not if it’s your personal car. If it’s used for a business you own, then you could deduct the proportion than your car was used for the business – sort of like your brother’s farm equipment, which is used in his business.

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  2. No… unless you use your car for business…and no that doesn’t mean driving to work.

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  3. I f you use it for business

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  4. YES SAME AS YOU CAN WITH INTEREST PAID ON A MORTGAGE OR SCHOOL LOAN

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  5. Neither of you are legally deducting "interest payments" legally on your income taxes.

    Your brother is taking the interest paid as an "expense" of doing business, but is not specifacally taging it as interest. there is NO interest deduction available to US taxpayers other then in that of the mortgage deduction.

    A car loan interest for personal use is the same thing, not deductible and neither is the student loan interest.

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  6. mukwonago53149 on March 11th, 2010 at 5:09 am

    No.

    However, if you own a business, which in turn, owns the car, the business can deduct the interest paid.

    Also, you can deduct the interest paid on the car if it’s investment property, like a collectable car.

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  7. If your brother is in the business of farming, his equipment is business equipment and the interest is a business expense.

    If your vehicle is used for business, you can deduct finance charges (a portion based on your business usage) on your car loan if you are self-employed.

    If you are an employee who uses your car for business and you are not reimbursed, you can deduct mileage or actual expenses of operating the car. However, interest charges are not part of the actual expenses of operating the car and are not deductible for employees.

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  8. The last time you could deduct "personal interest" was back in 1986.

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  9. viajero_intergalactico on March 11th, 2010 at 5:09 am

    no, and did you know that if you took out a loan on your house to pay for that car…the interest still would not be "legally deductable". but most people dont know that.

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  10. Unless you use the car regularly for business purposes, you cannot deduct the interest for a car loan.

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