It may be that your income is over $47,025 (single filer) or $94,050 (joint filer), in which case qualified dividends would begin to be taxed at similar rates to ordinary dividends, which are taxed at ordinary tax rates.
On the Qualified and Capital Gains worksheet, you will see the qualified dividends listed on line 2 being added to the capital gains on line 3 and later on line 16 the difference between those numbers and the income threshold being used to apply the 15% tax rate (on line 18) to arrive at the portion of your capital gains and qualified dividends that are being taxed. The amount below the threshold therefore are not being taxed, so your qualified dividends are getting the preferential capital gain tax rates.
[Edited 4/10/25 at 5:01 PM PST]
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