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Yes, the software is trying to calculate whether or not you will owe an underpayment penalty on the AR tax return by comparing your current year AR tax liability against the prior year tax liability.
Changes made to the AR withholding rates during 2020 actually caused AR taxpayers to have less withholding taken out of their income resources during the year vs prior years (like W2's, 1099R's, etc.). TurboTax is asking for your prior year tax liability in order to try to exclude or reduce any underpayment penalty calculated on your return.
In order to avoid the AR underpayment penalty, you must meet ONE of the following requirements whether or not there is a balance due on the AR return:
TurboTax must have the amount of the prior year tax liability provided in order to make the comparison for your correct and accurate tax return and complete the AR form so that the state will not later calculate the underpayment penalty if qualified not to owe it.
AR Estimated Tax Payment Guidelines
@gloriah5200 where can I find my prior year tax liability? I've been using turbotax deluxe for 15 years and I've never seen this.
Your liability for penalty computation purposes is the amount you owed on the prior year return. This is a part of the computation when determining the amount of Underpayment penalty. If you did not owe in 2019 you can ask that the penalty be waived. They base that decision on your history. Did you owe State taxes for 2019? How much? That is your liability.
In order to avoid the AR underpayment penalty, you must meet ONE of the following requirements whether or not there is a balance due on the AR return:
@Cynthiad66 I received a state and federal refund in 2019, I’ve never owed taxes on state or federal...ever. After some quick research I was starting to think tax liability is the amount I was taxed in 2019, but after reading your post it sounds like tax liability might be the amount I owed in state taxes after doing my taxes...which doesn’t make sense since I got a refund. Can you clarify?
Tax liability, in this instance, is the amount that you owed in Arkansas state taxes.
That amount would be found on line 33 of the 2019 Arkansas Individual Income Tax Return.
In order to avoid the Arkansas underpayment penalty, you must meet ONE of the following requirements regardless of whether there is a balance due on the AR return:
i'm having the same issue for my 2020 taxes, but i'm in california. would it be a similar answer? where is this number on the california return?
You may be subject to an estimated tax penalty if any of the following is true:
For your 2020 taxes, TurboTax will ask you for your 2019 tax. This would be on Line 64 of your 540.
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If someone like myself used TurboTax every year for the last 15 yrs, why doesn’t turbo tax auto populate that info instead of making me go look it up?
Because the program cannot assume you did not amend the return elsewhere last year so it requires you to manually enter the amount so it is correct.
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