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January 10, 2022
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  • January 10, 2022
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Georgia State Taxes, over 65. It did not allocate capital gains between Taxpayer and spouse even tho shown on federal as jt

    Best answer by DMarkM1

    not so.  when it goes down to line 17 on sch 1 of ga return, spouse is not given half of the cap gains and her exclusion is less than taxpayer.  If it had been equally divided, taxpayer and spouse would each have a 65,000 exclusion wherby the spouse's is only 58,311.


    Understand.  Because GA limits the exclusion to $65,000 for taxpayer as well as spouse, putting the entire amount in the Taxpayer column has caused the taxpayer to exceed the limit while leaving the spouse short of the limit. 

     

    In the forms view, select the GA "Inc/Ret Wks" and split the asset sales in half between the taxpayer and spouse columns.

     

     

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    DaveF1006
    January 12, 2022

    Just need to ask one clarifying question, are you filing married filing separately or jointly?

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    pmoberstAuthor
    January 13, 2022

    No, married joint.  In fed input of capital gains, J is marked.

     

    It appears to me to be a program error in bringing over to state.  Altho, the dividends did come over as joint, but that was marked on the 1099 input form.

    pmoberstAuthor
    January 13, 2022

    Unless there is another place to show joint.  In past years, each sale of assets had a place to put joint and I could not find that on the input form.