Since the US government decided that a 17 year old that was 16 for over half the year is no longer a child, the only thing that helped my taxes was the 20k+ in mortgage interest paid over the last year. Which is nice for the taxes but no matter how you slice it, 20k+ of withheld taxes and 20k+ of mortgage interest is a big hurt feeling, that’s more than my income was just a few years ago.