BillM223
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Retirement tax questions

Your total Social Security benefits are found in line 5a on your 1040. Your taxable Social Security benefits are in line 5b. So your nontaxable benefits are the difference between the two.

 

The same is true with the railroad retirement benefits reported on form RRB-1099.

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