Retirement tax questions

The tax seems excessive.

You can exempt up to $20,000 of pension income if you are 59 1/2 or over in New York. TurboTax should give you that deduction based on your age entered in the personal info section and your form 1099-R pension income entry. To have the New Your State pension be treated as exempt, there are a couple of boxes you need to check after you enter your 1099-R form. You may need to enter "NY" in box 15 to designate the income as being from New York to see the questions. They look like this, relative to income earned as a safety officer and pension from New York government sources: