our senior persol finance correspondent sharon epperson joins us with some year-end tax one of your favorite times of the year. >> definitely. >> so what has changed this year compared to last year that might help with tax savings? >> three big changes. one, alimony. if you got divorced, it was finalized in 2019, alimonyts paymre no longer deductible if you're paying them. if you're receivithem, they no longer count as income, you're not taxed on it. medical expense deductions, the threshold there, that has increased to of your adjusted gross income. you have to have unreimbursed medical expenses over 10% to get that deduction. the health insurance taxeeenalty has eliminated. people who don't already know that, if youon't have health insurance for 2019, you're not goinget that penalty that you did in years past. >> in 2018, the doublin of the standard deduction was big news, i remember you talking about it. any changes to that? >> it's gone up even more, a little bit more, a few hundred dollars for single filers, as well as for married couples ling jointly. if you're close to that edge in te