<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 10/23/2004 10:43:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, jeff.jfisher@gmail.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>but the thing i've never understood is why it would ever be worth it<BR>for a normal person to bother itemizing deductions? does anyone have<BR>numbers on how many people could deduct more than the standard<BR>deduction? and how many could deduct enough to make it worth itemizing<BR>(which would have to be a substantially more than the standard, imo)?<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>If you have a mortgage it is almost always worth it.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sergio</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>