If you itemize your deductions on Schedule A (Form 1040), only include the personal part of your deductible mortgage interest on Schedule A (Form 1040), lines 8a or 8b.
You can get your mortgage info by going to your lender's website. Other documents, like your monthly mortgage bills and your Closing Disclosure (or HUD-1), will also have some of this information. Your lender should send you a 1098 by January 31.
If you are required and you do not file electronically, you may be subject to a penalty of up to $100 per 1098 form.
Use Form 1098, Mortgage Interest Statement, to report mortgage interest (including points, defined later) of $600 or more you received during the year in the course of your trade or business from an individual, including a sole proprietor. Report only interest on a mortgage, defined later.
Below are real property transfer tax rates in California. Most areas go by a county-wide standard of $1.10 per thousand dollars in sale value. However, some cities have additional taxes, and some are even value-based within those cities. Rates are subject to change.
There is no mortgage tax in the State of California.
Any person may record in the office of the county recorder of any county fictitious mortgages and deeds of trust of real property. Those fictitious mortgages and deeds of trust need not be acknowledged, or proved or certified to be recorded or entitled to record.
Mortgage Tax States means, collectively, Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Georgia, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia and any other State in which an Individual Property or any Substitute Property may be located which imposes a mortgage recording or other mortgage tax.
Annual property tax bills are mailed every year in October to the owner of record as of January 1 of that year. If you do not receive the original bill by November 1, contact the County Tax Collector or Assessor for a duplicate bill. Note, the original bill may still have the prior owner's name on it the first year.
A mortgage statement will show the current mortgage balance, current interest rate, amount remaining on the mortgage term and amortization and the contact information for the mortgage holder. A mortgage statement may also provide a history of payments from the date of the last issuance.