Is unemployment income taxable in NJ

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
June 1, 2019
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I see on NJ's website that it should not be included in state return. How do I edit this since turbo tax didn't catch it?

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SweetieJean

Alumni - Champ

TT does catch it. Be sure you entered the 1099-G in the correct location in Federal taxes, Wages and Income, Unemployment.

yughersh

Level 2

Turbo Tax didn't catch unemployment as non taxable in NJ. When I was unchecking the box as not state income in NJ, it didn't let me file as e-file and now somehow I proceed without check mark it has been added as taxable income in NJ and total amount of tax in NJ has gone up by about $900.

How can I edit income again in NJ section to exclude unemployment income?

SweetieJean

Alumni - Champ

Unemployment has never been taxable in NJ, and TT does handle this correctly. Why do you think it isn't?

yughersh

Level 2

Because if I was checking the box as my unemployment income not as NJ state income then TT keep showing me error, but once I unchecked it it included in my income. Now TT charged my cc about $245 before this happened. Now I am unable to edit my NJ income because it's already imported my all info from federal. NJ tax went up about $900 because of unemployment income of about $11K.

I didn't file my tax yet and it needs to be corrected before I file.