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March 4, 2025
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Schedule 1 Line 24z

  • March 4, 2025
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Been using TurboTax for 35+ years.  Small problems occasionally occurred ,but overall ok.  Now comes 24z.

 

In 2024, I bought Treasury notes on auction.  Several charged normal for the note, but then added an "accrued Interest payment", since it was a re-issue note from the prior month.  Brokerage 1099 reflects full interest income as paid as taxable.  Where is Schedule 1 line 24z?  Not available in TT.  Why?  Where do they expect me to repot the prepaid interest as not taxable to me?  Interest income as a negative?  That works, but will, no doubt raise the ire of IRS!

OK TurboTax, you claim 100% accuracy,  Why block us out of 24z?

    2 replies

    March 4, 2025

    on the wages and income page select interest > continue

    enter payor and amount

    check the box my form has info in other boxes 

    continue

    on the next page check the box I need to adjust the interest reported

    contiinue

    on the next page enter the accrued interest paid as a positive number and use the drop-down box below to select for reason for adjustment - my accrued interest. 

    this will show up on schedule B where it belongs not  schedule  1 line 24z 

     

    by the way, you can not deduct more in accrued interest than what you received on the related obligation, any excess goes into next year's return.. 

     

     

    I would strongly suggest since this is a US government interest (line 3 of 1099-INT) you use a separate 1099-INT for this. the reason is Turbotax has a bad habit of prorating the accrued interest adjustment among some of the other lines on the form including line 1. This has been an issue with Turbitax for decades. 

    AmyC
    Employee
    March 4, 2025

    I can help with entering the information but I can't respond to the programming. The seller of the bond reports the accrued interest while the purchaser will deduct the accrued interest from the 1099-INT.

     

    You can enter the accrued interest adjustment in the 1099-INT section of TurboTax. You will see the adjustment on Sch B.

     

    Follow these steps to make an adjustment:

    1. Select Federal Taxes
    2. Select Wages & Income
    3. Edit your 1099-INT information
    4. Select Continue
    5. Select I need to adjust the taxable amount, select Continue
    6. Enter the accrued interest paid in the Adjustment box - enter a positive amount to subtract the interest
    7. Select the Reason for Adjustment as My accrued interest is included in this Form 1099-INT -my accrued interest is included.

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