The Spouse Tax Adjustment CR of $259 of line 17 of the VA 760 tax form is not available in Turbotax?

[AmyC]

I see it is not fully implemented. The state and federal governments approve the most common forms first and work their way down the list. Please see the links for form availability. Once a date shows up, the reality should be close. Once released, Turbo Tax will work quickly to get it working in the program.

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[rodolfo-hdtvmaga]

The 760 VA Tax form is the standard form for VA Tax filing, this is not about waiting until Turbotax considers the implementation of new forms, as I said on my note this is about TurboTax ignoring the Spouse Tax Adjustment (STA) credit on line 17 of the standard VA 760 tax form.  Therefore, if I proceed with TurboTax filing my VA 760 form for me, I will forfeit the possibility of claiming a $259 CR as I do every year filing my taxes manually.

What is the alternative you offer for TurboTax to include the STA credit of $259 in a way the line 17 is filled by he software?

[BillM223 · Accepted solution]

The Spouse tax adjustment appears to be created automatically by TurboTax (at least it is on my test return) without the need to enter anything.

To be fair, my test return is running on the CD/download of the product. Are you using the Online version, and have you run it again recently to see if the Spouse tax adjustment appears?

[rodolfo-hdtvmaga]

Thank you, I just filed and paid the taxes, and only that way I found out that the STA is actually entered by the software on the 760 tax form, I only can see the draft of the form for now.  I am glad it did, but this is not the way it should have happened, the software should have made more evident the existence of the feature with the correct name on the screen of deductions or adjustments.

By looking at the draft of the state 760 form I also found out that the whole taxable income of the 1040 passes to the 760 VA Tax form including all the Capital Gains Distributions, and all is state taxed by TurboTax at the standard rate as regular income, not like the 1040/IRS does, with a different lower rate for Capital Gains and Distributions.

Thank you for the feedback 

[BillM223]

"By looking at the draft of the state 760 form I also found out that the whole taxable income of the 1040 passes to the 760 VA Tax form including all the Capital Gains Distributions, and all is state taxed by TurboTax at the standard rate as regular income, not like the 1040/IRS does, with a different lower rate for Capital Gains and Distributions."

But in reading the VA 760 Instructions, you see that most capital gains don't qualify for an exception to being taxed as ordinary income. Also see Long-term Capital Gains here.

In Virginia, most long-term capital gains are taxed as ordinary income, unless the investment is in a certain type of business, in which case, it is a subtraction from income (i.e. not taxed at all).

This is why the TurboTax interview has a screen entitled "Federally Taxed Long-Term Capital Gains", to allow you to indicate that the gain is one of a very tax-favored varieties. If you answer "Yes", then the next screen asks you for the amount of the capital gain that qualifies for the subtraction. 

Did you see those screens? If you entered Yes and an amount, then this amount would appear on form ADJ/CG under Subtractions on line 6 with code 52, and will be subtracted from your state's taxable income.