elizabethbowlen
Returning Member

DC Schedule H rent credit - change from AGI to household gross income?

Hi,

 

I filed my taxes with TurboTax in 2019 and was able to claim the DC Schedule H rental tax credit because my AGI fell below the federal AGI threshold.   When I attempted to do the same this year, I was told "Your total household gross income is xxxx.  Since this amount exceeds the threshold of $55k, you do not qualify."

 

I've checked the actual Schedule H form that DC put up for 2020, and it still has you claiming "Federal adjusted gross income of the tax filing unit" so I'm not sure why TurboTax is using the household gross income calculation that hasn't been adjusted. (It seems like the difference for me is that the household gross isn't including the standard deduction of ~12k, which would put me below the threshold to receive the credit!)

 

Does anyone have any experience with why this seems to have changed?  Or is this a glitch in Turbo Tax's calculations?