@bloddyfloody1979
as indicated above by @NCperson ....Schedule 2 line 8 is the best place to check....but Online software users can't see that until they pay for the software.
Another place to check is line 23 of your form 1040 (which you can see at any time). If that is $0, then you are not being hit with the 10% penalty. If line 23 of the form 1040 is some other $ amount, then you can't really know without looking at the schedule 2, since other taxes can also be added into that line.
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Remember that your Military pension is still taxed as income on your Federal tax return, but just shouldn't be hit with the extra 10% penalty (if box 7 contains code 7 AND you indicated it is a Non-Qualified pension in the follow-up page questions after the main page entries
(states vary as to whether they tax military pensions).
Certainly in my desktop software, as long as the 1099-R (for a 41 year-old person & DFAS 1099-R) had box 7, code 7, and indicated it was non-qualified pension in the entries of the form....the desktop software does not hit it with 10% penalty. I don't have a similar test setup in my Online software....so I can't check its "flow" and behavior without a lot of messing around.
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____________*Answers are correct to the best of my knowledge when posted, but should not be considered to be legal or official tax advice.*
