AmyC
Expert Alumni

State tax filing

If your MN included all of the unemployment when filed, it was correct. The federal will adjust and send you a refund this summer. You always want to make a copy of your return when you file. 

 

Are you trying to amend that you are back inside your return? You should not need to amend. The program calculates based on current rules and you have opened a completed return using a different set of rules. Anybody who has not filed, will have the correct set of rules operating in the federal to flow to the state.

 

This is from the MN DOR website: 

 

Does Minnesota match the federal provision for excluding up to $10,200 in unemployment compensation from adjusted gross income?


No. Under current law, you must include any unemployment compensation benefits received in 2020 in Minnesota adjusted gross income. We will update our guidance if state law is changed.
If you excluded any unemployment compensation on your federal return, you must add it back on your Minnesota return:

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