Computing MD Exclusion for US Obligations

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April 6, 2020
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For MD, which box (or boxes) on form 1099Div is used to compute amount of US obligation income to be excluded from MD tax liability?

AmyC

Level 15

MD exempts the interest in box 3 and the dividends in box 11 on the 1099-DIV. When you mark it correctly in the federal section, it shows up automatically in the state section.

If you are not seeing that automatically, please return to the federal section. Edit the 1099-DIV and follow these steps.

You should have income in either box 3, box 11 or both.

Continue

When you entered the box 3 or 11 dividends on the federal, the next screen asks Tell us if any of these uncommon situations apply to you and you select either US Government interest or need to adjust these dividends.

If Government interest:
- the next screen asks how much from your state in Enter US Government interest
- continue,
- Tell us more about your exempt-interest dividends,
- choose one state or more than one,
- continue
If you chose need to adjust these dividends:
- then select I need to adjust these dividends,
- continue,
- enter the dividend adjustment
- select Other adjustment
- Continue
- choose the correct option for your situation, one state or more than one
- continue

You may also have 1099-INT box 3 interest that is exempt and must be marked in the federal section after entry.

[Edited 04/06/20 | 1:39pm PST]

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kll2009Author

Level 2

Now I'm confused. On my 1099Div, box 3 is nondividend distributions and box 12 is specified private activity bond interest dividends. Those boxes are blank. But, in the MD return, TurboTax tells me that "Capital gains from US obligations are tax free". The tax info provided by the brokerage says that a small percentage of dividends from 2 of my mutual funds was from US government obligations.

AmyC

Level 15

Yes, box 3 is for US Government bonds. I made a typo, box 11 not box 12. I am so sorry! That information needs to be entered in the federal program. Here is how:

Box 11 entry will ask "Which State are your $xxx of exempt interest-dividends from?

Select Maryland

Click Done

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