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You can't deduct your mortgage from your taxes, only the interest. And only on mortgages related to your first or second home. From irs.gov
Generally, home mortgage interest is any interest you pay on a loan secured by your home (main home or a second home). The loan may be a mortgage to buy your home, or a second mortgage.
Another important thing to note is that you only benefit from this if you have so many itemized deductions that you can do better than the standard deduction. The mortgage interest alone isn't going to do that in a vast majority of cases. Since legislation in 2017, a lot of the tax advantage of owning a home was reduced.
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There's actually a few types of interest, including student loan, that can be deducted.