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New Member
posted Mar 15, 2021 1:00:33 PM

Tax Calculation

I have income after deductions of approximately $70000. Turbotax calculated a tax on this of approximately $1000. Can this be correct. Seems way low!

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Level 15
Mar 15, 2021 1:04:54 PM

Federal or state?  Any Long Term Capital gains taxes at 0%?

New Member
Mar 15, 2021 1:30:24 PM

Federal Return. There were only $500 of Cap Gains

Level 15
Mar 15, 2021 1:32:43 PM

It depends on what kind of income you have, if you have capital gains or qualified dividends the tax is not taken from the tax table but is calculated separately from schedule D.  The tax will be calculated on the Qualified Dividends and Capital Gain Tax Worksheet.  It does not get filed with your return.  In the online version you need to save your return as a pdf file and include all worksheets to see it.

 

For the Desktop version you can switch to Forms Mode and open the worksheet to see it.  Click Forms in the upper right (upper left for Mac) and look through the list and open the Qualified Dividends and Capital Gain Tax Worksheet.

 

You can probably tell because the tax on 1040 will be less than the Tax Table

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/forms/help/form-1040-line-11-amount-is-less-than-standard-irs-tax-table/00/25752

New Member
Mar 15, 2021 3:18:57 PM

It did use the Cap Gain worksheet. We did have a lot of qualified dividends. But I still can't believe the tax is that low. But, hey, this is not a complaint. I'm just goin with it.