topic Hi. I have a return, single person, about 38600 in taxable. Turbotax calc is $3 higher than my Excel calc. How do I see how Turbotax is calculating the tax amount? in Get your taxes done using TurboTax

Hi. I have a return, single person, about 38600 in taxable. Turbotax calc is $3 higher than my Excel calc. How do I see how Turbotax is calculating the tax amount?

wfuss — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:36:28 GMT

This is simple return. First 11000 is tax at 10% plus the remaining about at 12%.

SteamTrain — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 22:39:09 GMT

At that income level...the tax tables are used...not an exact %.

Sometimes TTX will show a lower tax....IF you have significant Qualified dividends or capital gains, in which case, special tax worksheets are used.

SteamTrain — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 22:45:11 GMT

Here's a link that gets you to the IRS PDF of the tax tables