Important tax notice: You can deduct your MEA-MFT dues from your taxes, but only if you itemize deductions, and only if your dues plus other miscellaneous deductions add up to at least 2 percent of your adjusted gross income.

NOTE: The portion of your MEA-MFT dues that goes toward our legislative activity is not deductible.

For 2013, the deductible amount equals 93.7 percent of your MEA-MFT dues, all of your local dues, and all of your national dues.