TurboTax updated its 2020 software last March to add the exclusion for the first $10,200 of unemployment benefits for households making less than $150,000.
Your CD/Download software should reflect this as if the exclusion was in place when you filed. You should not have to create a "mock" amended return or make any changes in TurboTax.
- Open 2020.
- Tap Online > Check for Updates
- Tap Forms in the top right (next to Flags)
- Tap Schedule 1 in the left column. You should see UCE -10,000 on line 8, which is the unemployment adjustment
- Tap Step-by-step in the top right (where Forms used to be_
Amending state
You can amend state if everything looks good. Select the State Taxes tab and go through the screens until you see a screen asking whether you want to amend your state return (the state programs are all different).
Amend state. You will have to print and mail an amended state return in most instances.
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