Orange County Accountant

I am doing my taxes by myself for the first time, and I heard somewhere that your state income taxes can be a write off on your federal income tax. Is that true?

I have NM state taxes withheld from my pension. This year I also worked in CO and state taxes were withheld there. Will I have to pay state tax on the $ earned in CO in NM and will I have to try to recover that CO $ by filing a tax return in both NM and CO?

Consider sales tax, gasoline tax, cigarette tax, alcohol tax, excise tax, etc. Give a real answer!!!!!! Oh, and state tax, Texas doesn’t have, but we make up for it taxes on everything else. A real answer about what we pay in taxes?

I recently became a Texas resident and paid sales tax to Texas on a car I purchased. Is that state sales tax deductable from my federal income taxes (Texas has no state income tax)?

“If you paid state and local income taxes in 2007 for a prior year (such as taxes paid in 2007 as a balance due on your 2006 state income tax return), include this amount as other state and local income taxes paid.
Other state and local income taxes: $____”
While filing online, I got an alert here. I did not enter anything in. What exactly is the question asking?