KrisD15
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Retirement tax questions

You do not claim stimulus payments on your taxes, only payments EIP1 and EIP 2 that you missed. 

 

If you want to file a 2020 return to show a lower income, you can do that, but you don't report the stimulus payments.

 

If you have NO income for 2020, you can report 1 dollar as other income in order to file. 

 

 

Sign into your account and your return

Type   other reportable income   into the Search Box and click the “Jump to other reportable income” link

-OR-

Click Federal on the left side-bar

Click Wages & Income along the top

Scroll down to the last section Less Common Income and click Show more to open drop-down

Scroll down to last section Miscellaneous Income and click Start

Scroll down to the last section Other reportable income and click Start

Enter the description as “to file for stimulus” and the amount as 1.00

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