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June 5, 2019
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Effective tax rate for 2016

  • June 5, 2019
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where can i find the summary of my 2016 taxes and effective tax rate?
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To preview your 1040 tax return:

  • Click My Account (Top right of your  screen)

  • Tools

  • View Tax Summary

  • Once your Tax Summary loads, click on Preview my 1040

On a form 1040, to get an estimate of your effective tax rate, divide line 63, total tax by line 37, adjusted gross income.


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June 5, 2019

To preview your 1040 tax return:

  • Click My Account (Top right of your  screen)

  • Tools

  • View Tax Summary

  • Once your Tax Summary loads, click on Preview my 1040

On a form 1040, to get an estimate of your effective tax rate, divide line 63, total tax by line 37, adjusted gross income.


Level 2
June 5, 2019
I would say that TurboTax could make its cover letter more clear about this.  The effective tax rate in my TurboTax cover letter was "wrong" when I did the same calculation.  I realized that the "effective tax rate" it was calculating excluded Other Taxes from line 62; it was based on line 56 only.  That sort of makes sense -- my "Other Taxes" was additional payroll taxes, so unless it was going to add in withheld Medicare/SS taxes, to keep it apples-to-apples it makes sense to use "Effective [Income] Tax Rate."  But the income-only tax amount is not shown on the cover letter.  So from the numbers available to you there, it looks like TurboTax just botched the arithmetic.