DaveF1006
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Retirement tax questions

It depends. if you entered your retirement income in your federal return, the exclusion should automatically apply to your state return.  You should not need to do anything additional. To test the program, I entered a 1099R and treated it as a retirement distributions.

 

Then I began preparing my Ga state and it appears in a section entitled Here is the Income Georgia Handles Differently. On the top of the section, there should be a heading that says Retirement Income Exclusion/Military Retirement Exclusion with the amount of the retirement distribution you reported in the federal return. Keep in mind, this is not a credit but an exclusion from your Georgia Taxable income.

 

It is possible that your program may say only Military Retirement Exclusion.  If it does but reflects the correct amount of of your retirement income reported under Here is the Income Georgia Handles Differently, not to worry because it's all the same thing. 

 

if you are using Turbo Tax Online, it is possible that you may need to clear the cache and cookies in your browser so you will receive the yes or no button asking if you or Christina received military retirement.  I didn't see this in my sample program but stranger things sometimes happen. Here is what the screen should look like if your retirement income was reported correctly. 

 

 

 

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