Two-thirds of students graduating college in 2016 are carrying student loan debt, averaging close to $30,000 and typically carrying interest at 6.8 percent, or a little over $2,000 per year.
If you are paying more than $2,500 per year in student loan interest, the excess is not deductible and cannot be carried forward. Also, if you are making more than $65,000 per year, the deduction begins to phase out, and if you are making $80,000 per year, the deduction disappears altogether.
If you are trying to qualify for an income-based student loan repayment plan, you may want to consider filing separately, especially if your spouse does not also have student loan debt, so his or her income will not be taken into account in setting the repayment rate.
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