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Level 2
April 9, 2026
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GA Senior Exclusion

  • April 9, 2026
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Turbotax limits the distribution of income between joint filers to Cap Gains and Losses. GA allows dividends, interest and pension to be included in the total income before apportion. I ignored the allocation error and turbotax did not detect it as an error 

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    Level 15
    April 10, 2026

    Are you referring to the Georgia Retirement Income Exclusion?

     

    Generally, when you enter dividends, interest, and pension, you indicate on the federal return which taxpayer the item belonged to, so there is no need to ask to which taxpayer these items belonged. Some capital gains may not be so easily identified.

     

    Or are you asking something else?

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    upsraghuAuthor
    Level 2
    April 11, 2026

    GA exemption for over 65 is 65000 and between 62 and 65 years is 35000.

    Yes I allocated the capital gains, Interest and dividends among the joint filers. I was asked the question to do it again in the GA tax. It should have reduced it by the max but for some reason it did not. Seemed to be it did not include the interest and dividends. When i forced the entry and ignored the error, it totaled 100K for both filers