I'm retired and preparing my income tax form for this past year. One thing I've started doing is keeping all receipts showing sales tax. I started adding it up last night and ended up being able to deduct about 3 times the amount of money instead of taking the "standard" deduction for sales tax.

One thing that hit me was that I had a bunch of gas receipts. However they don't show state and local taxes on them.

I got to thinking that if there was some way to determine the state and local taxes on my gas receipts I would be able to claim even more.

I live in Florida and was wondering if we got any tax preparer/accountant types here who can point me in the direction I need to go to determine how much of deduction I can take on gasoline purchases both in the state of Florida and Georgia.

Thanks.