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As a retired minister, you can exclude the rental value of a home (plus utilities) furnished to you by your church as a part of your pay for past services, or the part of your pension that was designated as a rental allowance, from your gross income. Any allowance in excess of this amount is considered taxable income.
If you're not already on the 1099-R screen, open your return, search for 1099-R and select the Jump to link in the search results. Follow the directions to import or manually enter your 1099-R.
How you account for the exclusion depends on whether or not Box 2b (taxable amount not determined) is checked.
If Box 2b is checked
Enter the appropriate taxable amount in Box 2a of the Enter your 1099-R screen.
If Box 2b is not checked
This will remove the nontaxable portion from the distribution reported on your 1099-R.
This set of instructions does not cover the situation where the pension payer puts the gross amount in box 1 and the taxable amount in box 2 as zero. In that case, enter the 1099-R as provided and make no further adjustments on your tax return, no matter whether box 2b is checked or not.
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