SusanY1
Expert Alumni

Business & farm

The most likely source for this, if you do not have a business, is a pass-through of this deduction via dividends you have reported. 

If any of your form 1099-DIVs have "section 199A" dividends, this is the source of the number and the calculation you are seeing is correct. 

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