Your Home Tax Deduction Checklist: Did You Get Them All? Your Home Tax Deduction Checklist: Did You Get Them All? Here's your home tax deduction checklist for the 2020 tax year. Get to know all of the tax breaks for homeowners, so you don't leave anything on the table. Audrey Ference, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Welcome to your home tax deduction checklist! For homeowners, this kind of guidance is essential in the wake of all the changes ushered in by the new tax plan, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, that are still rolling in. The biggest change for 2020? The standard deduction jumped a couple of hundred dollars for taxpayers—to $12,400 for individuals, $18,650 for heads of household, and $24,800 for married couples filing jointly. And this higher number means you need to dig in to all of your home expenses to see if their total sum tops the standard deduction, depending on your filing status. (If the total doesn't surpass it, then you'll just take the standard deduction on your taxes when you file.)