DianeW777
Employee Tax Expert

After you file

If you do not have any taxable income after deducting the standard deduction and your tax is zero on line 24, Form 1040, you will still be eligible for the Recovery Rebate Credit (RRC) which includes both the first and second stimulus payments.

 

These IRS FAQs will provide more detail about the eligibility of the three stimulus payments.

To include the first and second stimulus payments on your tax return complete the following steps.

 

In TurboTax Online, to claim the Recovery Rebate credit please do the following:

  1. Sign into your account and continue from where you left off
  2. Click on Federal in the left-hand column, then on Federal Review on the top of the screen
  3. On the next page titled Let's make sure you got the right stimulus amount, click on Continue
  4. Follow the interview to correct the amounts received before filing your tax return 
  5. TurboTax will determine whether you are entitled to any additional stimulus
  6. Any stimulus amount remaining due to you will show as a credit on line 30 of your form 1040
  7. See the image below

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