 now you might say well why if it was used for business that's when i should get the deduction because then i pay taxes as a normal ordinary business expense and you might you might get the taxes deducted there but not on the schedule e i mean s a in that case not an itemized deduction you might then be able to take the deduction on a schedule c or whatever the business form was that you use for the business at which could be a legitimate you know that that would be make more sense however if you use your home for both personal and business we're gonna see that we run into this kind of confusing problem again in that we might have part of the deduction that maybe we can deduct on say a schedule c and part of it that then possibly could still be deductible on a noting that we can't double dip deducting the same amount in both places okay so but only if the taxes are assessed uniformly at a like rate on all real property throughout the community so no special kind of arrangements and and what not usually so in anyways and the proceeds are used for general community or governmental purposes in other words the money that's being used is not like it's going into a fund for you were something like that it's used for the general governmental uh... purposes of the state or locale so our publication five thirty explains the deductions the deductions home owners can take so you can take a look at that for more detail don't include the following amounts online five b foreign taxes you paid on real estate so we're talking about united states taxes here so we're talking about the the property taxes in the united states for real estate so itemized charges for services to specific property or persons for example a twenty dollar monthly charge for house up her house for trash collection a five dollar charge for every one thousand gallons of water consumed or a flat charge for mowing alone they had grown higher than permitted under a local ordinance you can see this kind of make sense because that's not exactly property taxes kind of like maintenance or required maintenance kind of things that are basically taking place in essence charges for the improvements that tend to increase the value of your property for example and assessment to build a new sidewalk so clearly