form 1099-R input

[PaulNR]

I'm a NYS retired employee. My income from the NYS retirement system is non-state-taxable. When I fill out the 1099-R information in Turbo tax box 12 should be prefilled with the word "EXEMPT", and when I complete my state return I should see a credit for the full value of my two pension incomes for the year.  This is the way it has worked for the past 10 years.  Now Turbo Tax tells me I am responsible for paying a RMD for my pension, and my state return adds the total of my recorded pensions to my taxable income.

This is a gross error.  Please fix this this bug!

[SteamTrain · Accepted solution]

@PaulNR 

1)  Once you reach age 70.5, the tax software will ask you if you "received" your RMD for pensions you receive, or IRA & 401k accounts you might have.  This is a Federal thing, and now that you have reached age 70.5, you will start seeing the RMD question every year.   

For any pension 1099-R where you receive regular payments (usually monthly), you just answer YES you received the RMD for that one...you have no control over it, but the pension provider is responsible for issuing the RMD amount.  For actual IRA or 401k accounts you may own, those RMD amounts must be arranged and taken by you every year after you reach age 70.5, since these separate retirement accounts are normally under your control.  (Soon to be age 72...but that's not be available to folks who reached 70.5 on, or before, 31 Dec of 2019).

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2)  To get the NYS pensions to NOT become NY income, you must edit the 1099-R in the Federal section, and then select the proper NY pension type on a followup page.  That selection is what will make that pension amount exempt form NY taxes.  There is also a critical NY distribution amount that needs to be entered when you select the pension type...the NY Distribution amount is NOT a zero.  It should be the same as box 1 of the 1099-R if box 1 and 2a are the same....or box 2a if that is a bit lower (but not zero).  The NY distribution amount is what will be subtracted from Federal AGI "IF" the proper NY pension type has been selected.

I'll post a picture later today when I get to my computer with an example....

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Post 1099-R followup page for NY Pension type selection page:

[SteamTrain]

Picture added to the post above.

[PaulNR]

Steam Train,

Thank you very much for the detailed and prompt explanation.  I will make those changes to my 1099-R entry.  I greatly appreciate your help.

Regards,

PaulNR

[fishinsp]

I have followed all the points you made for NY retirement system and all my info matches yours.  But as soon as I input the the info for the federal part it drops my NY return $50.  Nothing seems to stop this from happening.  any ideas what is happening?

[fishinsp]

What gets edited in the federal section that you mentioned?

[SteamTrain]

You edit the 1099-R, and then go thru the pages that follow the main form page.