Total refund received received may income not only state and local tax refunds but also refunds from the earned income credit . Your state tax refund which appears on your 2019 however will not reflect the amount you received on Form 1099G,
the amount of your state taxes overpaid. That amount will be included part of your total adjusted gross income in 2020. As far as why you never so this screen before in prior years, note that you only get taxed on state tax refund if you itemized
the year before in 2019. It's very likely that in prior years you either didn't overpay on your state tax liability and/or you didn't itemize in the prior year like 2018.
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