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May 14, 2025
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Average Mortgage Balance

  • May 14, 2025
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I have a mortgage balance in January of of the year of $1,000,000. Paid down a significant part of it in February (still the same mortgage). So the current balance is less than $750,000. But the average balance is far less than beginning of year + end of year balance divided by 2.  I can calculate the average balance by averaging all of the months (accepted by IRS) but how do I get this into TurboTax to calculate the fair mortgage interest deduction (desktop premier version)?

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    May 14, 2025

    in box 2 on the 1098 enter the average balance you have computed

    when or if your asked about the year end balance use the number above

     

    not supported in Turbotax 

    Someone who wants to use another method of averaging loan balances other than the beginning and ending balance method.