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Here’s what the California Franchise Tax Board says: “Forgiveness of student loan debt is generally taxable unless it meets one of the exclusions in California Revenue and Taxation Code ...
"Student loans that are forgiven after Dec. 31, 2020, and before Jan. 1, 2026, will not be taxed on a federal return, but for state income tax, there are some exceptions," Kathy Pickering, chief ...
CNBC reported that the student loan interest deduction allows qualifying borrowers to deduct up to $2,500 a year in interest paid on eligible private or federal education debt.
According to a CNBC analysis, the highest student debt balances are carried by adults aged 25–49, with the lowest debt loads held by those aged 62 and older. [62] As of 2021, approximately 7.8 million Americans from 18 to 25 carry student loan debt, with an average balance of almost $15,000. [63]
Derisma (2013) claimed that “using state taxes to fund public education has the potential to create funding insecurities. To begin, state tax revenues are largely generated from income and sales taxes. Income and sales tax revenue are not stable sources and have the propensity to drop in times of recession” (p. 122). [11]
As of 2018, Canada is ranked third in the world (behind Russia and South Korea) for the percentage of people ages 25–34 who have completed tertiary education. [1] As of September 2012, the average debt for a Canadian post-university student was 28,000 Canadian dollars, with this accumulated debt taking an average of 14 years to fully repay based on an average starting salary of $39,523. [2]
In 2023, Mark Cuban had a warning for young people on the ramifications of taking on massive student loans: “Debt pushes you to take a job that pays your loans rather than picking a job you love.”
The amount of debt that students have after graduation has become a major concern, especially given the weak job market after 2008. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] [ 36 ] Nearly all loans are financed by the federal government at an artificially low rate, [ 37 ] but students sometimes obtain private loans (which generally have higher interest rates and start ...