The standard deduction is a default amount the IRS assumes you'll spend, but you can get a bigger refund by itemizing specific expenses instead. You'll need documentation for each itemized claim to prove what you spent.
I said, typically if you just earn a paycheck and they take your, they deduct your taxes automatically at the end of the year, they give you what's called a, you go to H&R Block, they call it a standardized deduction. And they just say, this is what every American typically spends. So we're going to, if you overpaid your income taxes, you're going to be able to get some money back because we only needed, we only needed $50,000 and you paid $80,000. So we're going to give you $3,000 back. Right. So, and that's how that works. Okay. You go in and say, but wait a minute, I have all these other deductions. You can increase your tax return because you've got out of standardized deduction and go into itemized deduction. And when you itemize, you have to sit there and prove everything you're trying to itemize.
