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Other Non-Refundable Credits

Pub 4491 – Pg 259Pub 4012 – Tab GForm 1040 Lines 50, 52, 53

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Other Non-Refundable Credits

●Retirement Savings Credit

●Nonbusiness Energy Property Credit

●Credit for the Elderly or Disabled

Nonrefundable – offset income tax only, no cash back

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Intake/Interview

●Ask if taxpayer made (or plans to make) contribution to retirement account

●May not show on any tax document

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Retirement Savings Credit

● For qualifying taxpayers who made contributions to qualified retirement plan

●Review Decision Tree and Reminders (Pub 4012, pg G-6)

●Requires Form 8880 (Pub 4012, pg G-7)●TaxWise computes credit – carefully

verify data – W-2 Box 12 and 14(Pub 4012, pg D-6)

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Form 8880 Automatically added to tree if W-2 or IRA Wkt shows eligible contributions

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Retirement Savings CreditForm 8880

Must complete section 4

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Retirement Savings Credit

● Form 8880 Line 4 – distributions received during 2013, 2012, or 2011

●Do not include distributions listed on Pub 4012 page G-7e.g., some government plans have required contributions and do not permit elective contributions – distributions from those plans should not be input

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Intake/Interview – EnergyRelated Improvements

●Note – solar electric, solar water heating, small wind energy, and geothermal heat pump property costs are out of scope

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Residential Energy Credits

●Nonbusiness Energy Property Credit extended but with limits Lifetime limits

Cumulative $500 ($200 for windows) for all tax years after 2005

Individual item limits Improvements to Main Home only

Pub 4012, pg G-10

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Residential Energy Credits

Placed in service in 2013 Energy efficient windows, doors,

insulation, roof (materials only, not installation)

Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, hot water heaters (materials and installation)

Pub 4012, page G-10

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Residential Energy Credits

● Link from 1040 line 52 to Form 5695 Part II on Page 2

● Form 5695 Part I on page 1 (solar electric, solar water heating, small wind energy, and geothermal heat pump) – Out-of-scope

Pub 4491, page 264 Pub 4012, page G-10

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Form 5695, Pg 2

Need prior year returns

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Elderly or Disabled Credit

● Taxpayer is 65 or over, or under 65 and retired on permanent and total disability

● Income limits – see Pub 4012, page G-11

● Schedule R TaxWise computes automatically if correct

data input (including SSA/RRB on 1040 Wkt 1) Must enter any nontaxable income not

entered on the 1040 on Sch R, pg 2

Pub 4491, page 262

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Quality Review – Misc Non-Refundable Credits

●Confirm retirement contributions on W-2 or that are not on a tax document (IRAs) are properly captured

●Ensure energy credits don’t exceed cumulative limits

●Verify if elderly or disabled credit is computed

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Summary with Taxpayer

●Explain if 2013 energy expenditures disallowed

●Review benefits of retirement contribution, if any

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Miscellaneous Credits

Questions?

Comments?

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Let’s Practice in TaxWise

●Review what happened with Form 8880, Retirement Savings Credit, and Child Tax Credit in the Kent/Bryant return in Pub 4491W

● From Pub 4491W page 69, complete Form 5695 to obtain the energy credit for the Kent/Bryant

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