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Form 1120 Line 29a calculation. (Please do not mark my question as spam, thanks).

If I am filing a  2019 form 1120 with a NOL carryforward/carryover from 2018, and my carryover amount exceeds 80% of net income, should I put the full amount of the NOL carryover on line 29a of the form 1120?

 

Or should I only fill in the amount of the NOL carryover up to 80% of the net income?

 

(For whoever is marking my questions as spam, please stop - if I am breaking any rules of the forum please message me about it and I will fix/delete my post. Thank you).

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Form 1120 Line 29a calculation. (Please do not mark my question as spam, thanks).

The carryover needs to be calculated in the case of C corporations. 

 

See https://www.irs.gov/publications/p542#en_US_201809_publink1000257875

 

I am fairly certain that TurboTax Business does not automatically calculate the amount of the carryover at this point, but there may be program enhancements in future updates.

Form 1120 Line 29a calculation. (Please do not mark my question as spam, thanks).

Yes, I am trying to calculate it right now. From the form 1120 instructions the IRS mentions: "Enter on line 29a the total NOL carryovers from other tax years, but do not enter more than the corporation's taxable income (after special deductions). "

 

This is unclear to me whether that means I should enter the full amount of the NOL carryover that I have, or just the amount of the carryover up to 80% of the taxable income. 

 

Reading the instructions again, it appears to mean that: on line 29a I can only enter an NOL amount up to 100% of the taxable income. But the actual NOL deduction that is used would still only be up to 80% of the taxable income. Can anyone confirm? 

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