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March 28, 2022
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Tax Ammount on Line 16 of Form 1040 Reported by TurboTax is Significantly less than What is Given by Form 1040i based on Taxable Income of line 15 of Form 1040

  • March 28, 2022
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On Taxable Income, line 15 of Form 1040, TurboTax calculated and returned an amount of X dollars. 

 

On Tax, line 16 of Form 1040, TurboTax calculated and returned an ammount of Y dollars.

 

However, when I checked Form 1040i, the amount Y for Tax is significant less (about 10%) than the amount of Tax as instructed by Form 1040i for Taxable Income for X dollars.

 

We got the similar problem last year. Since we just filed electroniclly, we did not realize that there was such a problem, we were contacted with by IRS since the tax amount paid was not correct.

 

We used Deluxe last year. We are using Basic this year.  We now get the same problem again. We need your help indeed.

 

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VolvoGirl
Employee
March 28, 2022

It depends on what kind of income you have.  There are like 7 different ways to figure the tax.

 

See the IRS worksheet on 1040 page 36 for how the tax is figured

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf

 

Turbo Tax uses the same worksheet.  Save an online return as a pdf file with all the worksheets to see it.

 

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