Userid: CPM Schema: tipx Leadpct: 100% Pt. size: 8 Draft Ok to Print AH XSL/XML Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source (Init. & Date) _______ Page 1 of 43 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Publication 525 Cat. No. 15047D Contents Future Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Department of the Taxable and What's New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Treasury Internal Reminders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Revenue Nontaxable Service Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Income Employee Compensation . . . . . . . . . . 3 Special Rules for Certain Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 For use in preparing Business and Investment Income . . . . 17 Returns Sickness and Injury Benefits . . . . . . . 18 2022 Miscellaneous Income . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Repayments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 How To Get Tax Help . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Future Developments For the latest information about developments related to Pub. 525, such as legislation enacted after it was published, go to IRS.gov/Pub525. What's New Deferred compensation contribution limit increased. If you participate in a 401(k), 403(b), or the federal government's Thrift Sav- ings Plan (TSP), the total annual amount you can contribute is increased to $20,500 ($27,000 if age 50 or older). This also applies to most 457 plans. Health flexible spending arrangements (health FSAs) under cafeteria plans. For tax years beginning in 2022, the dollar limitation un- der section 125(i) on voluntary employee salary reductions for contributions to health FSAs is $2,850. Reminders Temporary Allowance of 100% Business Meal Deduction. Section 210 of the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020 provides for the temporary allowance of a 100% business meal deduction for food or beverages provided by a restaurant and paid or incurred after December 31, 2020, and before January 1, 2023. Paycheck Protection Program loan forgive- ness. Gross income doesn’t include any amount arising from the forgiveness of a Pay- check Protection Program (PPP) loan, effective Get forms and other information faster and easier at: for taxable years ending after March 27, 2020. • IRS.gov (English) • IRS.gov/Korean (한국어) (See P.L. 116-136.) Likewise, gross income • IRS.gov/Spanish (Español) • IRS.gov/Russian (Pусский) does not include any amount arising from the • IRS.gov/Chinese (中文) • IRS.gov/Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) forgiveness of Second Draw PPP loans, effective December 27, 2020. (See P.L. Feb 7, 2023 |
Page 2 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. 116-260.) When a taxpayer who does not factu- Account. You can view the amount you owe, re- Other Income, later. Also, see Pub. 590-A for ally satisfy the conditions for a qualifying for- view 18 months of payment history, access on- more information. giveness causes its lender to forgive the PPP line payment options, and create or modify an Taxpayer identification number (TIN). A TIN loan by inaccurately representing that the tax- online payment agreement. You can also ac- is your social security number (SSN), individual payer satisfies them, the taxpayer may not ex- cess your tax records online. taxpayer identification number (ITIN), adoption clude the amount of the forgiven loan from Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) taxpayer identification number (ATIN), or em- gross income under 15 U.S.C. section 636m(i) account. This is a type of savings account for ployer identification number (EIN). or section 276(b)(1) of the COVID-related Tax individuals with disabilities and their families. Terrorist attacks. You can exclude from in- Relief Act of 2020. Distributions are tax free if used to pay the ben- come certain disaster assistance, disability, and Emergency financial aid grants. Certain eficiary's qualified disability expenses. See Pub. death payments received as a result of a terro- emergency financial aid grants under the 907 for more information. rist or military action. For more information, see CARES Act are excluded from the income of Sickness and Injury Benefits, later; Pub. 3920, college and university students, effective for Certain amounts received by wrongfully in- grants made after March 26, 2020. (See P.L. carcerated individuals. Certain amounts you Tax Relief for Victims of Terrorist Attacks; and 116-136 and P.L. 116-260.) receive due to a wrongful incarceration may be Pub. 907, Tax Highlights for Persons With Disa- excluded from gross income. See IRS.gov/ bilities. Other loan forgiveness under the CARES Individuals/Wrongful-Incarceration-FAQs for Photographs of missing children. The Inter- Act. Gross income does not include any more information. nal Revenue Service is a proud partner with the amount arising from the forgiveness of certain National Center for Missing & Exploited loans, emergency Economic Injury Disaster Foreign income. If you're a U.S. citizen or res- Children® (NCMEC). Photographs of missing Loan (EIDL) grants, and certain loan repayment ident alien, you must report income from sour- children selected by the Center may appear in assistance, each as provided by the CARES ces outside the United States (foreign income) this publication on pages that would otherwise Act, effective for tax years ending after March on your tax return unless it’s exempt by U.S. be blank. You can help bring these children 27, 2020. (See P.L. 116-136 and P.L. 116-260.) law. This is true whether you reside inside or home by looking at the photographs and calling Exclusion of income for volunteer firefight- outside the United States and whether or not 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678) if you rec- ers and emergency medical responders. If you receive a Form W-2, Wage and Tax State- ognize a child. you are a volunteer firefighter or emergency ment, or Form 1099 from the foreign payer. This medical responder, you may be able to exclude applies to earned income (such as wages and from gross income certain rebates or reductions tips) as well as unearned income (such as inter- Introduction of state or local property or income taxes and est, dividends, capital gains, pensions, rents, You can receive income in the form of money, up to $50 per month provided by a state or local and royalties). property, or services. This publication dis- government. For more information, see Volun- If you reside outside the United States, you cusses many kinds of income and explains teer firefighters and emergency medical res- may be able to exclude part or all of your for- whether they are taxable or nontaxable. It in- ponders. eign source earned income. For details, see cludes discussions on employee wages and Pub. 54, Tax Guide for U.S. Citizens and Resi- fringe benefits, and income from bartering, part- Repeal of deduction for alimony payments dent Aliens Abroad. nerships, S corporations, and royalties. It also and corresponding inclusion in gross in- come. Alimony received will no longer be in- Olympic and Paralympic medals and United includes information on disability pensions, life cluded in your income if you entered into a di- States Olympic Committee (USOC) prize insurance proceeds, and welfare and other vorce or separation agreement on or before money. If you receive Olympic and Paralympic public assistance benefits. Check the index for December 31, 2018, and the agreement is medals and USOC prize money, the value of the location of a specific subject. changed after December 31, 2018, to expressly the medals and the amount of the prize money In most cases, an amount included in your provide that alimony received isn't included in may be nontaxable. See the Instructions for income is taxable unless it is specifically ex- your income. Alimony received will also not be Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8m, at IRS.gov/ empted by law. Income that is taxable must be included in income if a divorce or separation Form1040 for more information. reported on your return and is subject to tax. In- come that is nontaxable may have to be shown agreement is entered into after December 31, Public safety officers. A spouse, former on your tax return but isn’t taxable. 2018. For more information, see Pub. 504. spouse, and child of a public safety officer killed Forms 1040A and 1040EZ no longer availa- in the line of duty can exclude from gross in- Constructively received income. You are ble. Forms 1040A and 1040EZ aren't available come survivor benefits received from a govern- generally taxed on income that is available to to file your 2022 taxes. If you used one of these mental section 401(a) plan attributable to the of- you, regardless of whether it is actually in your forms in the past, you’ll now file Form 1040 or ficer's service. See section 101(h). possession. 1040-SR. A public safety officer that's permanently A valid check that you received or that was Qualified equity grants. For tax years begin- and totally disabled or killed in the line of duty made available to you before the end of the tax ning after 2017, certain qualified employees can and a surviving spouse or child can exclude year is considered income constructively re- make a new election to defer income taxation from income death or disability benefits re- ceived in that year, even if you don’t cash the for up to 5 years for the qualified stocks re- ceived from the federal Bureau of Justice Assis- check or deposit it to your account until the next ceived. See Qualified Equity Grants under Em- tance or death benefits paid by a state program. year. For example, if the postal service tries to ployee Compensation, later. See section 104(a)(6). deliver a check to you on the last day of the tax Suspension of qualified bicycle commuting Qualified Medicaid waiver payments. Cer- year but you aren’t at home to receive it, you reimbursement exclusion. For tax years be- tain payments you receive for providing care to must include the amount in your income for that ginning after 2017, reimbursement you receive an eligible individual in your home under a tax year. If the check was mailed so that it from your employer for the purchase, repair, or state's Medicaid waiver program may be exclu- couldn’t possibly reach you until after the end of storage of a bicycle you regularly use for travel ded from your income under Notice 2014-7. the tax year, and you otherwise couldn’t get the between your residence and place of employ- See also Instructions for Schedule 1 (Form funds before the end of the year, you include ment must be included in your gross income. 1040), line 8s. the amount in your income for the next tax year. Unemployment compensation. If you re- Qualified settlement income. If you're a Assignment of income. Income received ceived unemployment compensation but did qualified taxpayer, you can contribute all or part by an agent for you is income you constructively not receive Form 1099-G, Certain Government of your qualified settlement income, up to received in the year the agent received it. If you Payments, through the mail, you may need to $100,000, to an eligible retirement plan, includ- agree by contract that a third party is to receive access your information through your state’s ing an IRA. Contributions to eligible retirement income for you, you must include the amount in website to get your electronic Form 1099-G. plans, other than a Roth IRA or a designated your income when the third party receives it. Access your online account. You must au- Roth contribution, reduce the qualified settle- thenticate your identity. To securely log in to ment income that you must include in income. Example 1. You and your employer agree your federal tax account, go to IRS.gov/ See Exxon Valdez settlement income under that part of your salary is to be paid directly to Page 2 Publication 525 (2022) |
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However, if you use an accrual Form (and Instructions) method of accounting, you can defer prepaid in- Bankruptcy. If you filed for bankruptcy under come you receive for services to be performed 1040 1040 U.S. Individual Income Tax Return chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, you must before the end of the next tax year. In this case, 1040-NR 1040-NR U.S. Nonresident Alien Income allocate your wages and withheld income tax. you include the payment in your income as you Tax Return Your Form W-2 will show your total wages and earn it by performing the services. withheld income tax for the year. On your tax re- 1040-SR 1040-SR U.S. Tax Return for Seniors turn, you report the wages and withheld income tax for the period before you filed for bank- your comments about this publication and sug- Comments and suggestions. We welcome 1099-R 1099-R Distributions From Pensions, ruptcy. Your bankruptcy estate reports the wa- gestions for future editions. 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For a sample of this statement at the end of this publication, go to the IRS In- ies, commissions, fees, and tips, this includes and other information, see Notice 2006-83, teractive Tax Assistant page at IRS.gov/ other forms of compensation such as fringe 2006-40 I.R.B. 596, available at IRS.gov/irb/ Help/ITA where you can find topics by using the benefits and stock options. 2006-40_IRB#NOT-2006-83. search feature or viewing the categories listed. You should receive a Form W-2 from your Getting tax forms, instructions, and pub- employer or former employer showing the pay Miscellaneous lications. Go to IRS.gov/Forms to download you received for your services. Include all your Compensation current and prior-year forms, instructions, and pay on Form 1040 or 1040-SR, line 1a, even if publications. you don’t receive Form W-2, or you receive a Ordering tax forms, instructions, and Form W-2 that doesn’t include all pay that This section discusses many types of employee publications. Go to IRS.gov/OrderForms to should be included on the Form W-2. compensation. The subjects are arranged in al- phabetical order. order current forms, instructions, and publica- If you performed services, other than as an tions; call 800-829-3676 to order prior-year independent contractor, and your employer Advance commissions and other earnings. forms and instructions. The IRS will process didn’t withhold social security and Medicare If you receive advance commissions or other your order for forms and publications as soon taxes from your pay, you must file Form 8919 amounts for services to be performed in the fu- as possible. Don’t resubmit requests you’ve al- with your Form 1040 or 1040-SR. These wages ture and you're a cash-method taxpayer, you ready sent us. You can get forms and publica- must be included on Form 1040 or 1040-SR, must include these amounts in your income in tions faster online. line 1g. See Form 8919 for more information. the year you receive them. If you repay unearned commissions or other Fair market value (FMV). The FMV of an amounts in the same year you receive them, re- Useful Items item of property is the price at which the item duce the amount of unearned commissions in- You may want to see: would change hands between a willing buyer cluded in your income by the repayment. If you and a willing seller, neither being required to repay them in a later tax year, you can deduct Publication buy or sell and both having reasonable knowl- the repayment as an itemized deduction on 334 334 Tax Guide for Small Business edge of the relevant facts. your Schedule A (Form 1040), Other Itemized Deductions, line 16, or you may be able to take 523 523 Selling Your Home Childcare providers. If you provide childcare, a credit for that year. See Repayments, later. 527 527 Residential Rental Property either in the child's home or in your home or other place of business, the pay you receive Allowances and reimbursements. If you re- 541 541 Partnerships must be included in your income. If you're not ceive travel, transportation, or other business 544 544 Sales and Other Dispositions of an employee, you're probably self-employed expense allowances or reimbursements from Assets and must include payments for your services on your employer, see Pub. 463. If you're reim- Schedule C (Form 1040), Profit or Loss From bursed for moving expenses, see Pub. 521. 550 550 Investment Income and Expenses Business. You generally aren’t an employee un- 554 554 Tax Guide for Seniors less you're subject to the will and control of the Back pay awards. Include in income amounts person who employs you as to what you're to you're awarded in a settlement or judgment for 559 559 Survivors, Executors, and do, and how you're to do it. back pay. These include payments made to you Administrators 575 575 Pension and Annuity Income Babysitting. If you babysit for relatives or for damages, unpaid life insurance premiums, neighborhood children, whether on a regular and unpaid health insurance premiums. They 907 907 Tax Highlights for Persons With basis or only periodically, the rules for childcare should be reported to you by your employer on Disabilities providers apply to you. Form W-2. Publication 525 (2022) Page 3 |
Page 4 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Bonuses and awards. Bonuses or awards amount of deferrals for the year under a non- or resign, this amount will be included as wages you receive for outstanding work are included in qualified deferred compensation plan. This on your Form W-2. your income and should be shown on your amount is shown in Form W-2, box 12, using If you resign from one agency and are reem- Form W-2. These include prizes such as vaca- code Y. This amount isn’t included in your in- ployed by another agency, you may have to re- tion trips for meeting sales goals. If the prize or come. pay part of your lump-sum annual leave pay- award you receive is goods or services, you However, if at any time during the tax year, ment to the second agency. You can reduce must include the FMV of the goods or services the plan fails to meet certain requirements, or gross wages by the amount you repaid in the in your income. However, if your employer isn’t operated under those requirements, all same tax year in which you received it. Attach merely promises to pay you a bonus or award at amounts deferred under the plan for the tax to your tax return a copy of the receipt or state- some future time, it isn’t taxable until you re- year and all preceding tax years are included in ment given to you by the agency you repaid to ceive it or it’s made available to you. your income for the current year. This amount is explain the difference between the wages on included in your wages shown in Form W-2, your return and the wages on your Forms W-2. Employee achievement award. If you re- box 1. It’s also shown in Form W-2, box 12, us- ceive tangible personal property (other than ing code Z. Outplacement services. If you choose to cash, a gift certificate, or an equivalent item) as accept a reduced amount of severance pay so an award for length of service or safety achieve- Nonqualified deferred compensation plans that you can receive outplacement services ment, you must generally exclude its value from of nonqualified entities. In most cases, any (such as training in résumé writing and inter- your income. However, the amount you can ex- compensation deferred under a nonqualified view techniques), you must include the unre- clude is limited to your employer's cost and deferred compensation plan of a nonqualified duced amount of the severance pay in income. can’t be more than $1,600 ($400 for awards entity is included in gross income when there is that aren’t qualified plan awards) for all such no substantial risk of forfeiture of the rights to Sick pay. Pay you receive from your employer awards you receive during the year. Your em- such compensation. For this purpose, a non- while you're sick or injured is part of your salary ployer can tell you whether your award is a qualified entity is one of the following. or wages. In addition, you must include in your qualified plan award. Your employer must make income sick pay benefits received from any of the award as part of a meaningful presentation, 1. A foreign corporation, unless substantially the following payers. under conditions and circumstances that don’t all of its income is: • A welfare fund. create a significant likelihood of it being dis- a. Effectively connected with the con- • A state sickness or disability fund. guised pay. duct of a trade or business in the Uni- • An association of employers or employees. However, the exclusion doesn’t apply to the ted States, or • An insurance company, if your employer following awards. paid for the plan. • A length-of-service award if you received it b. Subject to a comprehensive foreign for less than 5 years of service or if you re- income tax. However, if you paid the premiums on an acci- dent or health insurance policy, the benefits you ceived another length-of-service award 2. A partnership, unless substantially all of its receive under the policy aren’t taxable. For during the year or the previous 4 years. income is allocated to persons other than: more information, see Other Sickness and In- • A safety achievement award if you're a jury Benefits under Sickness and Injury Bene- manager, administrator, clerical employee, a. Foreign persons for whom the income or other professional employee or if more isn’t subject to a comprehensive for- fits, later. than 10% of eligible employees previously eign income tax, and Social security and Medicare taxes paid by received safety achievement awards dur- b. Tax-exempt organizations. employer. If you and your employer have an ing the year. agreement that your employer pays your social Note received for services. If your employer security and Medicare taxes without deducting Example 2. You received three employee gives you a secured note as payment for your them from your gross wages, you must report achievement awards during the year: a nonqua- services, you must include the FMV (usually the the amount of tax paid for you as taxable wages lified plan award of a watch valued at $250, and discount value) of the note in your income for on your tax return. The payment is also treated two qualified plan awards of a stereo valued at the year you receive it. When you later receive as wages for figuring your social security and $1,000 and a set of golf clubs valued at $500. payments on the note, a proportionate part of Medicare taxes and your social security and Assuming that the requirements for qualified each payment is the recovery of the FMV that Medicare benefits. However, these payments plan awards are otherwise satisfied, each you previously included in your income. Don’t aren’t treated as social security and Medicare award by itself would be excluded from income. include that part again in your income. Include wages if you're a household worker or a farm However, because the $1,750 total value of the the rest of the payment in your income in the worker. awards is more than $1,600, you must include year of payment. $150 ($1,750 − $1,600) in your income. If your employer gives you a nonnegotiable Stock appreciation rights. Don’t include a unsecured note as payment for your services, stock appreciation right granted by your em- Differential wage payments. This is any pay- payments on the note that are credited toward ployer in income until you exercise (use) the ment made by an employer to an individual for the principal amount of the note are compensa- right. When you use the right, you're entitled to any period during which the individual is, for a tion income when you receive them. a cash payment equal to the FMV of the corpo- period of more than 30 days, an active duty ration's stock on the date of use minus the FMV member of the uniformed services and repre- Severance pay. You must include in income on the date the right was granted. You include sents all or a portion of the wages the individual amounts you receive as severance pay and any the cash payment in income in the year you use would have received from the employer for that payment for the cancellation of your employ- the right. period. These payments are treated as wages ment contract. and are subject to income tax withholding, but Virtual currency. If your employer gives you not FICA or FUTA taxes. The payments are re- Severance payments are subject to social virtual currency (such as Bitcoin) as payment ported as wages on Form W-2. security and Medicare taxes, income tax for your services, you must include the FMV of withholding, and FUTA tax. Severance pay- the currency in your income. The FMV of virtual Government cost-of-living allowances. ments are wages subject to social security and currency paid as wages is subject to federal in- Most payments received by U.S. Government Medicare taxes. As noted in section 15 of Pub. come tax withholding, Federal Insurance Contri- civilian employees for working abroad are taxa- 15, Special Rules for Various Types of Service bution Act (FICA) tax, and Federal Unemploy- ble. However, certain cost-of-living allowances and Payments, severance payments are also ment Tax Act (FUTA) tax and must be reported are tax free. Pub. 516 explains the tax treatment subject to income tax withholding and FUTA on Form W-2. Notice 2014-21, 2014-16 I.R.B. of allowances, differentials, and other special tax. 938, describes how virtual currency is treated pay you receive for employment abroad. for federal tax purposes and is available at Accrued leave payment. If you're a fed- IRS.gov/irb/2014-16_IRB#NOT-2014-21. For Nonqualified deferred compensation plans. eral employee and receive a lump-sum pay- further information, see IRS.gov/virtualcurrency. Your employer will report to you the total ment for accrued annual leave when you retire Page 4 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 5 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Fringe Benefits rately report this value to you in box 14 (or on a rendered are treated as guaranteed payments separate statement). and are includible in the shareholder-employ- Fringe benefits received in connection with the ee's gross income. The shareholder-employee performance of your services are included in Accident or Health Plan can deduct the contribution made to the share- your income as compensation unless you pay holder-employee's HSA. FMV for them or they’re specifically excluded by In most cases, the value of accident or health Qualified HSA funding distribution. You law. Refraining from the performance of serv- plan coverage provided to you by your em- can make a one-time distribution from your indi- ices (for example, under a covenant not to com- ployer isn’t included in your income. Benefits vidual retirement arrangement (IRA) to an HSA pete) is treated as the performance of services you receive from the plan may be taxable, as and you generally won’t include any of the dis- for purposes of these rules. explained under Sickness and Injury Benefits, tribution in your income. See Pub. 590-B for the later. See Valuation of Fringe Benefits, later in this requirements for these qualified HSA funding distributions. discussion, for information on how to determine For information on the items covered in this the amount to include in income. section, other than Long-term care coverage, see Pub. 969. Adoption Assistance Recipient of fringe benefit. You're the recipi- ent of a fringe benefit if you perform the serv- Long-term care coverage. Contributions by You may be able to exclude from your income ices for which the fringe benefit is provided. your employer to provide coverage for amounts paid or expenses incurred by your em- You're considered to be the recipient even if it’s long-term care services generally aren’t inclu- ployer for qualified adoption expenses in con- given to another person, such as a member of ded in your income. However, contributions nection with your adoption of an eligible child. your family. An example is a car your employer made through a flexible spending or similar ar- See the Instructions for Form 8839 for more in- gives to your spouse for services you perform. rangement (such as a cafeteria plan) must be formation. The car is considered to have been provided to included in your income. This amount will be re- you and not to your spouse. ported as wages in box 1 of Form W-2. Adoption benefits are reported by your em- You don’t have to be an employee of the ployer in box 12 of Form W-2 with code T. They provider to be a recipient of a fringe benefit. If Archer MSA contributions. Contributions by are also included as social security and Medi- you're a partner, a director, or an independent your employer to your Archer MSA generally care wages in boxes 3 and 5. However, they contractor, you can also be the recipient of a aren’t included in your income. Their total will aren’t included as wages in box 1. To determine fringe benefit. be reported in box 12 of Form W-2 with code R. the taxable and nontaxable amounts, you must You must report this amount on Form 8853, complete Part III of Form 8839. File the form Provider of benefit. Your employer or an- Archer MSAs and Long-Term Care Insurance with your return. other person for whom you perform services is Contracts. File the form with your return. the provider of a fringe benefit regardless of Athletic Facilities whether that person actually provides the fringe Health flexible spending arrangement benefit to you. The provider can be a client or (health FSA). If your employer provides a If your employer provides you with the free or customer of an independent contractor. health FSA that qualifies as an accident or low-cost use of an employer-operated gym or health plan, the amount of your salary reduc- other athletic club on your employer's premises, Accounting period. You must use the same tion, and reimbursements of your medical care the value isn’t included in your compensation. accounting period your employer uses to report expenses, in most cases aren’t included in your The gym must be used primarily by employees, your taxable noncash fringe benefits. Your em- income. their spouses, and their dependent children. ployer has the option to report taxable noncash For 2022, health FSAs are subject to a fringe benefits by using either of the following $2,850 limit on a salary reduction contribution. If your employer pays for a fitness program rules. provided to you at an off-site resort hotel or ath- • The general rule: benefits are reported for Health reimbursement arrangement (HRA). letic club, the value of the program is included a full calendar year (January 1–December If your employer provides an HRA that qualifies in your compensation. 31). as an accident or health plan, coverage and re- • The special accounting period rule: bene- imbursements of your medical care expenses De Minimis (Minimal) Benefits fits provided during the last 2 months of the generally aren’t included in your income. calendar year (or any shorter period) are If your employer provides you with a product or treated as paid during the following calen- Health savings account (HSA). If you’re an service and the cost of it is so small that it would dar year. For example, each year your em- eligible individual, you and any other person, in- be unreasonable for the employer to account ployer reports the value of benefits provi- cluding your employer or a family member, can for it, the value isn’t included in your income. In ded during the last 2 months of the prior make contributions to your HSA. Contributions, most cases, the value of benefits such as dis- year and the first 10 months of the current other than employer contributions, are deducti- counts at company cafeterias, cab fares home year. ble on your return whether or not you itemize when working overtime, occasional personal Your employer doesn’t have to use the same deductions. Contributions made by your em- use of an employer’s copying machine (where accounting period for each fringe benefit, but ployer aren’t included in your income. Distribu- at least 85% of the use of the machine is for must use the same period for all employees tions from your HSA that are used to pay quali- business), and company picnics aren’t included who receive a particular benefit. fied medical expenses aren’t included in your in your income. Also, see Employee Discounts, You must use the same accounting period income. Distributions not used for qualified later. that you use to report the benefit to claim an medical expenses are included in your income. employee business deduction (for example, See Pub. 969 for the requirements of an HSA. Holiday gifts. If your employer gives you a tur- use of a car). Contributions by a partnership to a bona fide key, ham, or other item of nominal value at partner's HSA aren’t contributions by an em- Christmas or other holidays, don’t include the Form W-2. Your employer must include all tax- ployer. The contributions are treated as a distri- value of the gift in your income. However, if your able fringe benefits in box 1 of Form W-2 as wa- bution of money and aren’t included in the part- employer gives you cash, a gift certificate, or a ges, tips, and other compensation, and, if appli- ner's gross income. Contributions by a similar item that you can easily exchange for cable, in boxes 3 and 5 as social security and partnership to a partner's HSA for services ren- cash, you include the value of that gift as extra Medicare wages. Although not required, your dered are treated as guaranteed payments that salary or wages regardless of the amount in- employer may include the total value of fringe are includible in the partner's gross income. In volved. benefits in box 14 (or on a separate statement). both situations, the partner can deduct the con- However, if your employer provided you with a tribution made to the partner's HSA. vehicle and included 100% of its annual lease Contributions by an S corporation to a value in your income, the employer must sepa- 2%-shareholder-employee's HSA for services Publication 525 (2022) Page 5 |
Page 6 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Dependent Care Benefits your income. For more information, see Retire- ported in box 1, and report the total on your re- ment Planning Services, later. turn. If your employer provides dependent care ben- efits under a dependent care assistance plan, Employer-Provided Group-Term Figuring the taxable cost. Use the following you may be able to exclude these benefits from Life Insurance worksheet to figure the amount to include in your income. Dependent care benefits include: your income. • Amounts your employer pays directly to ei- In most cases, the cost of up to $50,000 of If you pay any part of the cost of the insur- ther you or your care provider for the care group-term life insurance coverage provided to ance, your entire payment reduces, dollar for of your qualifying person while you work, you by your employer (or former employer) isn’t dollar, the amount you would otherwise include • The FMV of care in a daycare facility provi- included in your income. However, you must in- in your income. However, you can’t reduce the ded or sponsored by your employer, and clude in income the cost of employer-provided amount to include in your income by: • Pre-tax contributions you made under a insurance that is more than the cost of $50,000 • Payments for coverage in a different tax dependent care FSA. of coverage reduced by any amount you pay to- year; ward the purchase of the insurance. • Payments for coverage through a cafeteria The amount you can exclude is limited to the plan, unless the payments are after-tax lesser of: For exceptions to this rule, see Entire cost contributions; or • The total amount of dependent care bene- excluded and Entire cost taxed, later. • Payments for coverage not taxed to you fits you received during the year, because of the exceptions discussed later • The total amount of qualified expenses you If your employer provided more than under Entire cost excluded. incurred during the year, $50,000 of coverage, the amount included in • Your earned income, your income is reported as part of your wages in • Your spouse's earned income, or box 1 of Form W-2. Also, it's shown separately • $5,000 ($2,500 if married filing separately). in box 12 with code C. Your employer must show the total amount Group-term life insurance. This insurance is of dependent care benefits provided to you dur- term life insurance protection (insurance for a ing the year under a dependent care assistance fixed period of time) that: plan in box 10 of Form W-2. Any amount over • Provides a general death benefit, your employer’s plan limit is also included in • Is provided to a group of employees, box 1. See Form 2441. • Is provided under a policy carried by the employer, and To claim the exclusion, you must complete • Provides an amount of insurance to each Part III of Form 2441. See the Instructions for employee based on a formula that pre- Form 2441 for more information. vents individual selection. Permanent benefits. If your group-term Educational Assistance life insurance policy includes permanent bene- fits, such as a paid-up or cash surrender value, You can exclude from your income up to $5,250 you must include in your income, as wages, the of qualified employer-provided educational as- cost of the permanent benefits minus the sistance. For more information, see Pub. 970. amount you pay for them. Your employer should be able to tell you the amount to include Employee Discounts in your income. If your employer sells you property or services Accidental death benefits. Insurance that at a discount, you may be able to exclude the provides accidental or other death benefits but amount of the discount from your income. The doesn't provide general death benefits (for ex- exclusion applies to discounts on property or ample, travel insurance) isn’t group-term life in- services offered to customers in the ordinary surance. course of the line of business in which you Former employer. If your former employer work. However, it doesn’t apply to discounts on provided more than $50,000 of group-term life real property or property commonly held for in- insurance coverage during the year, the amount vestment (such as stocks or bonds). included in your income is reported as wages in box 1 of Form W-2. Also, it's shown separately The exclusion is limited to the price charged in box 12 with code C. Box 12 will also show the nonemployee customers multiplied by the fol- amount of uncollected social security and Medi- lowing percentage. care taxes on the excess coverage, with codes • For a discount on property, your employ- M and N. You must pay these taxes with your er's gross profit percentage (gross profit income tax return. Include them on Schedule 2 divided by gross sales) on all property sold (Form 1040), line 13. For more information, see during the employer's previous tax year. the Instructions for Forms 1040 and 1040-SR. (Ask your employer for this percentage.) • For a discount on services, 20% (0.20). Two or more employers. Your exclusion for employer-provided group-term life insurance Financial Counseling Fees coverage can’t exceed the cost of $50,000 of coverage, whether the insurance is provided by Financial counseling fees paid for you by your a single employer or multiple employers. If two employer are included in your income and must or more employers provide insurance coverage be reported as part of wages. Fees for tax or in- that totals more than $50,000, the amounts re- vestment counseling are miscellaneous item- ported as wages on your Forms W-2 won’t be ized deductions and are no longer deductible. correct. You must figure how much to include in your income. Reduce the amount you figure by Qualified retirement planning services paid any amount reported with code C in box 12 of for you by your employer may be excluded from your Forms W-2, add the result to the wages re- Page 6 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 7 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Table 1. Cost of $1,000 of Worksheet 1. Figuring the Group-Term Life Insurance for 1 Worksheet 1. Figuring the Cost of Group-Term Life Month Cost of Group-Term Life Insurance To Include in Age Cost Insurance To Include in Income Under 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .05 Income—Illustrated Keep for Your Records 25 through 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .06 Keep for Your Records 1. Enter the total amount of 30 through 34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .08 1. Enter the total amount of your insurance coverage 35 through 39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .09 your insurance coverage from your from your employer(s) . . . . . . . . . . . 1. 40 through 44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 employer(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. 80,000 45 through 49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 2. Limit on exclusion for 2. Limit on exclusion for 50 through 54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 employer-provided employer-provided 55 through 59 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 group-term life insurance group-term life insurance coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. 50,000 coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. 50,000 60 through 64 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66 3. Subtract line 2 from 65 through 69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.27 line 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. 30,000 3. Subtract line 2 from 4. Divide line 3 by $1,000. line 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. 70 and above . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.06 Figure to the nearest 4. Divide line 3 by $1,000. Example 3. You're 51 years old and work tenth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. 30.0 Figure to the nearest for employers A and B. Both employers provide 5. Go to Table 1. Using your tenth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. group-term life insurance coverage for you for age on the last day of the tax the entire year. Your coverage is $35,000 with year, find your age group in 5. Go to Table 1. Using your employer A and $45,000 with employer B. You the left column, and enter the age on the last day of the pay premiums of $4.15 a month under the em- cost from the column on the tax year, find your age ployer B group plan. You figure the amount to right for your age group in the left column, include in your income as follows. group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. .23 and enter the cost from the 6. Multiply line 4 by column on the right for your line 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. 6.90 age group . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. 7. Enter the number of full months of coverage at this 6. Multiply line 4 by cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. 12 line 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. 8. Multiply line 6 by line 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. 82.80 7. Enter the number of full 9. Enter the months of coverage at this premiums you paid cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. per month . . . . . 9. 4.15 10. Enter the number 8. Multiply line 6 by of months you paid line 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. the premiums . . . . . 10. 12 9. Enter the 11. Multiply line 9 by premiums you line 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11. 49.80 paid per 12. Subtract line 11 from line 8. month . . . . . . . . 9. Include this amount in your income as 10. Enter the number wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. 33.00 of months you paid the The total amount to include in income for the premiums . . . . . 10. cost of excess group-term life insurance is $33. Neither employer provided over $50,000 insur- 11. Multiply line 9 by ance coverage, so the wages shown on your line 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11. Forms W-2 don't include any part of that $33. You must add it to the wages shown on your 12. Subtract line 11 from line 8. Forms W-2 and include the total on your return. Include this amount in your income as Entire cost excluded. You aren't taxed on wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. the cost of group-term life insurance if any of the following circumstances apply. 1. You’re permanently and totally disabled and have ended your employment. 2. Your employer is the beneficiary of the policy for the entire period the insurance is in force during the tax year. 3. A charitable organization to which contri- butions are deductible is the only benefi- ciary of the policy for the entire period the insurance is in force during the tax year. (You aren’t entitled to a deduction for a Publication 525 (2022) Page 7 |
Page 8 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. charitable contribution for naming a chari- spouse, or any of your dependents by, or on be- Retirement Planning Services table organization as the beneficiary of half of, the institution or center for use as a your policy.) home. The lodging must be located on or near a If your employer has a qualified retirement plan, 4. The plan existed on January 1, 1984, and: campus of the educational institution or aca- qualified retirement planning services provided demic health center. to you (and your spouse) by your employer a. You retired before January 2, 1984, aren't included in your income. Qualified serv- and were covered by the plan when Adequate rent. The amount of rent you ices include retirement planning advice, infor- you retired; or pay for the year for qualified campus lodging is mation about your employer's retirement plan, considered adequate if it's at least equal to the and information about how the plan may fit into b. You reached age 55 before January lesser of: your overall individual retirement income plan. 2, 1984, and were employed by the • 5% of the appraised value of the lodging, You can't exclude the value of any tax prepara- employer or its predecessor in 1983. or tion, accounting, legal, or brokerage services • The average of rentals paid by individuals provided by your employer. Also, see Financial Entire cost taxed. You’re taxed on the entire (other than employees or students) for Counseling Fees, earlier. cost of group-term life insurance if either of the comparable lodging held for rent by the ed- following circumstances applies. ucational institution. • The insurance is provided by your em- Transportation ployer through a qualified employees' trust, If the amount you pay is less than the lesser of such as a pension trust or a qualified annu- these amounts, you must include the difference If your employer provides you with a qualified ity plan. in your income. transportation fringe benefit, it can be excluded • You’re a key employee and your employ- The lodging must be appraised by an inde- from your income, up to certain limits. A quali- er's plan discriminates in favor of key em- pendent appraiser and the appraisal must be fied transportation fringe benefit is: ployees. reviewed on an annual basis. • Transportation in a commuter highway ve- hicle (such as a van) between your home Example 4. You are a sociology professor and work place, Meals and Lodging for State University and rent a home from the • A transit pass, or university that is qualified campus lodging. The • Qualified parking. You don't include in your income the value of house is appraised at $200,000. The average meals and lodging provided to you and your rent paid for comparable university lodging by Cash reimbursement by your employer for family by your employer at no charge if the fol- persons other than employees or students is these expenses under a bona fide reimburse- lowing conditions are met. $14,000 a year. You pay an annual rent of ment arrangement is also excludable. However, 1. The meals are: $11,000. You don’t include in your income any cash reimbursement for a transit pass is exclud- rental value because the rent you pay equals at able only if a voucher or similar item that can be a. Furnished on the business premises least 5% of the appraised value of the house exchanged only for a transit pass isn't readily of your employer, and (5% × $200,000 = $10,000). If you paid annual available for direct distribution to you. b. Furnished for the convenience of your rent of only $8,000, you would have to include employer. $2,000 in your income ($10,000 − $8,000). Exclusion limit. The exclusion for commuter vehicle transportation and transit pass fringe 2. The lodging is: benefits can't be more than $280 a month. Moving Expense Reimbursements a. Furnished on the business premises The exclusion for the qualified parking fringe of your employer, For tax years 2018 through 2025, reimburse- benefit can't be more than $280 a month. b. Furnished for the convenience of your ments for certain moving expenses are no lon- If the benefits have a value that is more than employer, and ger excluded from the gross income of nonmili- these limits, the excess must be included in tary taxpayers. your income. c. A condition of your employment. (You must accept it in order to be able to No-Additional-Cost Services Commuter highway vehicle. This is a high- properly perform your duties.) way vehicle that seats at least six adults (not in- The value of services you receive from your em- cluding the driver). At least 80% of the vehicle's You also don't include in your income the ployer for free, at cost, or for a reduced price mileage must reasonably be expected to be: value of meals or meal money that qualifies as a isn't included in your income if your employer: • For transporting employees between their minimal fringe benefit. See De Minimis (Mini- • Offers the same service for sale to custom- homes and workplace, and mal) Benefits, earlier. ers in the ordinary course of the line of • On trips during which employees occupy at business in which you work, and least half of the vehicle's adult seating ca- Faculty lodging. If you're an employee of an • Doesn’t have a substantial additional cost pacity (not including the driver). educational institution or an academic health (including any sales income given up) to center and you're provided with lodging that provide you with the service (regardless of Transit pass. This is any pass, token, fare- doesn't meet the three conditions given earlier, what you paid for the service). card, voucher, or similar item entitling a person you may still not have to include the value of the to ride mass transit (whether public or private) lodging in income. However, the lodging must In most cases, no-additional-cost services free or at a reduced rate or to ride in a com- be qualified campus lodging, and you must pay are excess capacity services, such as airline, muter highway vehicle operated by a person in an Adequate rent. bus, or train tickets; hotel rooms; and telephone the business of transporting persons for com- Academic health center. This is an organ- services. pensation. ization that meets the following conditions. Qualified parking. This is parking provided to • Its principal purpose or function is to pro- Example 5. You're employed as a flight at- vide medical or hospital care or medical tendant for a company that owns both an airline an employee at or near the employer's place of education or research. and a hotel chain. Your employer allows you to business. It also includes parking provided on • It receives payments for graduate medical take personal flights (if there is an unoccupied or near a location from which the employee education under the Social Security Act. seat) and stay in any one of their hotels (if there commutes to work by mass transit, in a com- • One of its principal purposes or functions is is an unoccupied room) at no cost to you. The muter highway vehicle, or by car pool. It doesn't to provide and teach basic and clinical value of the personal flight isn't included in your include parking at or near the employee's medical science and research using its income. However, the value of the hotel room is home. own faculty. included in your income because you don't work in the hotel business. Qualified campus lodging. Qualified cam- pus lodging is lodging furnished to you, your Page 8 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 9 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Tuition Reduction you would have to pay a third party to lease the you whether your retirement plan is qualified.) same or a similar vehicle on the same or com- However, the cost of life insurance coverage in- You can exclude a qualified tuition reduction parable terms in the same geographic area cluded in the plan may have to be included. from your income. This is the amount of a re- where you use the vehicle. An example of a duction in tuition: comparable lease term is the amount of time If your employer pays into a nonqualified • For education (below graduate level) fur- the vehicle is available for your use, such as a plan for you, you must generally include the nished by an educational institution to an 1-year period. The value can't be determined by contributions in your income as wages for the employee, former employee who retired or multiplying a cents-per-mile rate times the num- tax year in which the contributions are made. became disabled, or his or her spouse and ber of miles driven unless you prove the vehicle However, if your interest in the plan isn't trans- dependent children; could have been leased on a cents-per-mile ba- ferable or is subject to a substantial risk of for- • For education furnished to a graduate stu- sis. See Notice 2021-7 for more information on feiture (you have a good chance of losing it) at dent at an educational institution if the temporary relief for employers and employees the time of the contribution, you don't have to in- graduate student is engaged in teaching or using the automobile lease valuation rule to de- clude the value of your interest in your income research activities for that institution; or termine the value of an employer-provided vehi- until it's transferable or is no longer subject to a • Representing payment for teaching, re- cle in 2020 or 2021. The special valuation rule substantial risk of forfeiture. search, or other services if you receive the used for 2021 under the Notice must continue For information on distributions from amount under the National Health Service to be used by the employer and the employee TIP retirement plans, see Pub. 575 (or Pub. Corps Scholarship Program or the Armed for all subsequent years, except to the extent 721 if you’re a federal employee or re- Forces Health Professions Scholarship the employer uses the commuting valuation tiree). and Financial Assistance program. rule. See Special valuation rules below. For more information, see Pub. 970. Flights on employer-provided aircraft. Under the general valuation rules, if your flight Elective Deferrals Working Condition Benefits on an employer-provided piloted aircraft is pri- marily personal and you control the use of the If you’re covered by certain kinds of retirement If your employer provides you with a product or aircraft for the flight, the value is the amount it plans, you can choose to have part of your service and the cost of it would have been al- would cost to charter the flight from a third compensation contributed by your employer to lowable as a business or depreciation deduc- party. a retirement fund, rather than have it paid to tion if you paid for it yourself, the cost isn't inclu- If there is more than one employee on the you. The amount you set aside (called an “elec- ded in your income. flight, the cost to charter the aircraft must be tive deferral”) is treated as an employer contri- divided among those employees. The division bution to a qualified plan. An elective deferral, Example 6. You work as an engineer and must be based on all the facts, including which other than a designated Roth contribution (dis- your employer provides you with a subscription employee or employees control the use of the cussed later), isn't included in wages subject to to an engineering trade magazine. The cost of aircraft. income tax at the time contributed. However, it’s included in wages subject to social security the subscription isn't included in your income Special valuation rules. Generally, you can and Medicare taxes. because the cost would have been allowable to use a special valuation rule for a fringe benefit you as a business deduction if you had paid for only if your employer uses the rule. If your em- Elective deferrals include elective contribu- the subscription yourself. ployer uses a special valuation rule, you can't tions to the following retirement plans. use a different special rule to value that benefit. 1. Cash or deferred arrangements (section Valuation of Fringe Benefits You can always use the general valuation rule 401(k) plans). discussed earlier, based on facts and circum- If a fringe benefit is included in your income, the stances, even if your employer uses a special 2. The TSP for federal employees. amount included is generally its value deter- rule. 3. Salary reduction simplified employee pen- mined under the general valuation rule or under If you and your employer use a special valu- sion plans (SARSEP plans). the special valuation rules. For an exception, ation rule, you must include in your income the see Employer-Provided Group-Term Life Insur- amount your employer determines under the 4. Savings incentive match plans for employ- ance, earlier. special rule minus the sum of: ees (SIMPLE plans). General valuation rule. You must include in 1. Any amount you repaid your employer, 5. Tax-sheltered annuity plans (section your income the amount by which the FMV of plus 403(b) plans). the fringe benefit is more than the sum of: 2. Any amount specifically excluded from in- 6. Section 501(c)(18)(D) plans. (But see Re- 1. The amount, if any, you paid for the bene- come by law. porting by employer, later.) fit, plus The special valuation rules are the following. 7. Section 457 plans. 2. The amount, if any, specifically excluded • The automobile lease rule. from your income by law. • The vehicle cents-per-mile rule. Qualified automatic contribution arrange- • The commuting rule. ments. Under a qualified automatic contribu- If you pay FMV for a fringe benefit, no amount is • The unsafe conditions commuting rule. tion arrangement, your employer can treat you included in your income. • The employer-operated eating-facility rule. as having elected to have a part of your com- pensation contributed to a section 401(k) plan. Fringe benefit FMV. The FMV of a fringe For more information on these rules, see You’re to receive written notice of your rights benefit is determined by all the facts and cir- Pub. 15-B. and obligations under the qualified automatic cumstances. It’s the amount you would have to For information on the noncommercial flight contribution arrangement. The notice must ex- pay a third party to buy or lease the benefit. and commercial flight valuation rules, see sec- plain: This is determined without regard to: tions 1.61-21(g) and 1.61-21(h) of the regula- • Your rights to elect not to have elective • Your perceived value of the benefit, or tions. contributions made, or to have contribu- • The amount your employer paid for the tions made at a different percentage; and benefit. • How contributions made will be invested in Retirement Plan the absence of any investment decision by Employer-provided vehicles. If your em- Contributions you. ployer provides a car (or other highway motor vehicle) to you, your personal use of the car is Your employer's contributions to a qualified re- You must be given a reasonable period of usually a taxable noncash fringe benefit. tirement plan for you aren’t included in income time after receipt of the notice and before the Under the general valuation rules, the value at the time contributed. (Your employer can tell first elective contribution is made to make an of an employer-provided vehicle is the amount election with respect to the contributions. Publication 525 (2022) Page 9 |
Page 10 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Overall limit on deferrals. For 2022, you Limit for deferral under section 501(c)(18) 2. The basic annual limit plus the amount of shouldn't have deferred more than a total of plans. If you're a participant in a section the basic limit not used in prior years (only $20,500 of contributions to the plans listed in 501(c)(18) plan (a trust created before June 25, allowed if not using age 50-or-over (1) through (3), earlier, unless you are 50 or 1959, funded only by employee contributions), catch-up contributions). older. The specific plan limits for the plans listed you should have deferred no more than the in (4) through (7), earlier, are discussed later. lesser of $7,000 or 25% of your compensation. Catch-up contributions. You can gener- Amounts deferred under specific plan limits are Amounts you defer under a section 501(c)(18) ally have additional elective deferrals made to part of the overall limit on deferrals. plan count toward the overall limit ($20,500 in your governmental section 457 plan if: Your employer or plan administrator should 2022) and may affect the amount you can defer • You reached age 50 by the end of the apply the proper annual limit when figuring your under other elective deferral plans. year, and plan contributions. However, you’re responsible • No other elective deferrals can be made for monitoring the total you defer to ensure that Limit for deferrals under section 457 plans. for you to the plan for the year because of the deferrals aren't more than the overall limit. If you're a participant in a section 457 plan (a limits or restrictions. deferred compensation plan for employees of If you qualify, your limit can be the lesser of your Catch-up contributions. You may be allowed state or local governments or tax-exempt or- includible compensation or $20,500, plus catch-up contributions (additional elective de- ganizations), you should have deferred no more $6,500. However, if you're within 3 years of re- ferrals) if you're age 50 or older by the end of than the lesser of your includible compensation tirement age and your plan provides the in- your tax year. For 2022, the catch-up limit for or $20,500 in 2022. However, if you're within 3 creased limit, discussed earlier, that limit may section 401(k) and 403(b) plans, the TSP, SAR- years of normal retirement age, you may be al- be higher. SEP plans, and governmental section 457 lowed an increased limit if the plan allows it. plans is $6,500. For SIMPLE plans, it’s $3,000. See Increased limit, later. Designated Roth contributions. Employers with section 401(k) plans, section 403(b) plans, For more information about catch-up contri- Includible compensation. Generally, this and governmental section 457 plans can create butions to: is your Form W-2 wages plus elective deferrals. qualified Roth contribution programs so that you • Section 401(k) plans, see Elective Defer- In most cases, it includes all the following pay- may elect to have part or all of your elective de- rals in chapter 4 of Pub. 560; ments. ferrals to the plan designated as after-tax Roth • SARSEPs, see Salary Reduction Simpli- fied Employee Pensions in chapter 2 of 1. Wages and salaries. contributions. Designated Roth contributions are treated as elective deferrals, except that Pub. 560; 2. Fees for professional services. they're included in income. Your retirement plan • SIMPLE plans, see SIMPLE Plans in chap- ter 3 of Pub. 560; and 3. The value of any employer-provided quali- must maintain separate accounts and record- • Section 457 plans, see Limit for deferrals fied transportation fringe benefit (defined keeping for the designated Roth contributions. under section 457 plans, later. under Transportation, earlier) that isn't in- Qualified distributions from a Roth account cluded in your income. aren't included in income. A distribution made Limit for deferrals under SIMPLE plans. If 4. Other amounts received (cash or non- before the end of the 5-tax-year period begin- you're a participant in a SIMPLE plan, you gen- cash) for personal services you per- ning with the first tax year for which you made a erally shouldn't have deferred more than formed, including, but not limited to, the designated Roth contribution to the account $14,000 in 2022. Amounts you defer under a following items. isn't a qualified distribution. SIMPLE plan count toward the overall limit ($20,500 for 2022) and may affect the amount a. Commissions and tips. Reporting by employer. Your employer gen- erally shouldn't include elective deferrals in your you can defer under other elective deferral b. Fringe benefits. wages in box 1 of Form W-2. Instead, your em- plans. c. Bonuses. ployer should mark the Retirement plan check- Limit for tax-sheltered annuities. If you're a box in box 13 and show the total amount defer- participant in a tax-sheltered annuity plan (sec- 5. Employer contributions (elective deferrals) red in box 12. tion 403(b) plan), the limit on elective deferrals to the following. for 2022 is generally $20,500. However, if you a. The section 457 plan. Section 501(c)(18)(D) contributions. have at least 15 years of service with a public Wages shown in box 1 of Form W-2 shouldn't school system, a hospital, a home health serv- b. Qualified cash or deferred arrange- have been reduced for contributions you made ice agency, a health and welfare service ments (section 401(k) plans) that to a section 501(c)(18)(D) plan. The amount agency, a church, or a convention or associa- aren't included in your income. you contributed should be identified with code tion of churches (or associated organization), c. A SARSEP plan. H in box 12. You may deduct the amount defer- the limit on elective deferrals is increased by the red subject to the limits that apply. Include your least of the following amounts. d. A tax-sheltered annuity (section deduction in the total on Schedule 1 (Form 403(b) plan). 1040), line 24f. 1. $3,000. e. A SIMPLE plan. Designated Roth contributions. These 2. $15,000, reduced by the sum of: contributions are elective deferrals but are in- f. A section 125 cafeteria plan. a. The additional pre-tax elective defer- cluded in your wages in box 1 of Form W-2. rals made in earlier years because of Instead of using the amounts listed earlier to Designated Roth contributions to a section this rule, plus determine your includible compensation, your 401(k) plan are reported using code AA in employer can use any of the following amounts. box 12, or, for section 403(b) plans, code BB in b. The aggregate amount of designated • Your wages as defined for income tax with- box 12. Designated Roth contributions to a gov- Roth contributions permitted for prior holding purposes. ernmental section 457 plan are reported using tax years because of this rule. • Your wages as reported in box 1 of Form code EE in box 12. 3. $5,000 times the number of your years of W-2. service for the organization, minus the to- • Your wages that are subject to social se- Excess deferrals. If your deferrals exceed the tal elective deferrals made by your em- curity withholding (including elective defer- limit, you must notify your plan by the date re- ployer on your behalf for earlier years. rals). quired by the plan. If the plan permits, the ex- cess amount will be distributed to you. If you If you qualify for the 15-year rule, your elec- Increased limit. During any, or all, of the participate in more than one plan, you can have tive deferrals under this limit can be as high as last 3 years ending before you reach normal re- the excess paid out of any of the plans that per- $23,500 for 2022. tirement age under the plan, your plan may pro- mit these distributions. You must notify each For more information, see Pub. 571. vide that your limit is the lesser of: plan by the date required by that plan of the 1. Twice the annual limit ($41,000 for 2022), amount to be paid from that particular plan. The or plan must then pay you the amount of the Page 10 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 11 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. excess, along with any income earned on that Excess Contributions authority as a medium of exchange,” and that amount, by April 15 of the following year. employee stock options aren’t “money remuner- You must include the excess deferral in your If you're a highly compensated employee, the ation” subject to the Railroad Retirement Tax income for the year of the deferral. File Form total of your elective deferrals made for you for Act (RRTA). Tier 1 and Tier 2 taxes aren’t with- 1040 or 1040-SR to add the excess deferral any year under a section 401(k) plan or SAR- held when employees covered by the RRTA ex- amount to your wages on line 1a. SEP plan may be limited by the average defer- ercise stock options. Federal income tax must rals, as a percentage of pay, made by all eligi- still be withheld on taxable compensation from Excess not distributed. If you don't take ble non-highly compensated employees. railroad employees exercising their options. If out the excess amount, you can't include it in you receive an option to buy or sell stock or the cost of the contract even though you inclu- If you contributed more to the plan than al- other property as payment for your services, ded it in your income. Therefore, you're taxed lowed, the excess contributions may be distrib- you may have income when you receive the op- twice on the excess deferral left in the uted to you. You must include the distribution in tion (the grant), when you exercise the option plan—once when you contribute it, and again your income as wages on Form 1040 or (use it to buy or sell the stock or other property), when you receive it as a distribution (unless the 1040-SR, line 1a. or when you sell or otherwise dispose of the op- excess deferral was a designated Roth contri- tion or property acquired through exercise of bution). If you receive a corrective distribution of ex- the option. The timing, type, and amount of in- Excess distributed to you. If you take out cess contributions (and allocable income), it's come inclusion depend on whether you receive the excess after the year of the deferral and you included in your income in the year of the distri- a nonstatutory stock option or a statutory stock receive the corrective distribution by April 15 of bution. The allocable income is the amount of option. Your employer can tell you which kind of the following year, don't include it in income gain or loss through the end of the plan year for option you hold. again in the year you receive it. If you receive it which the contribution was made that is alloca- later, you must include it in income in both the ble to the excess contributions. You should re- Nonstatutory Stock Options year of the deferral and the year you receive it ceive a Form 1099-R for the year the excess (unless the excess deferral was a designated contributions are distributed to you. Add the dis- Grant of option. If you're granted a nonstatu- Roth contribution). Any income on the excess tribution to your wages for that year. tory stock option, you may have income when deferral taken out is taxable in the tax year in Even though a corrective distribution of you receive the option. The amount of income which you take it out. If you take out part of the TIP excess contributions is reported on to include and the time to include it depend on excess deferral and the income on it, allocate Form 1099-R, it isn't otherwise treated whether the FMV of the option can be readily the distribution proportionately between the ex- as a distribution from the plan. It can't be rolled determined. The FMV of an option can be read- cess deferral and the income. over into another plan, and it isn't subject to the ily determined if it’s actively traded on an estab- You should receive a Form 1099-R for the additional tax on early distributions. lished market. year in which the excess deferral is distributed The FMV of an option that isn't traded on an to you. Use the following rules to report a cor- established market can be readily determined rective distribution shown on Form 1099-R for Excess Annual Additions only if all of the following conditions exist. 2022. • You can transfer the option. • If the distribution was for a 2022 excess The amount contributed in 2022 to a defined • You can exercise the option immediately in deferral, your Form 1099-R should have contribution plan is generally limited to the full. code 8 in box 7. Add the excess deferral lesser of 100% of your compensation or • The option or the property subject to the amount to your wages on your 2022 tax re- $61,000. Under certain circumstances, contri- option isn't subject to any condition or re- turn. butions that exceed these limits (excess annual striction (other than a condition to secure • If the distribution was for a 2022 excess additions) may be corrected by a distribution of payment of the purchase price) that has a deferral to a designated Roth account, your elective deferrals or a return of your af- significant effect on the FMV of the option. your Form 1099-R should have codes B ter-tax contributions and earnings from these • The FMV of the option privilege can be and 8 in box 7. Don’t add this amount to contributions. readily determined. your wages on your 2022 return. The option privilege for an option to buy is the • If the distribution was for a 2021 excess A corrective payment of excess annual addi- deferral, your Form 1099-R should have tions consisting of elective deferrals or earnings opportunity to benefit during the option's exer- code P in box 7. If you didn't add the ex- from your after-tax contributions is fully taxable cise period from any increase in the value of cess deferral amount to your wages on in the year paid. A corrective payment consist- property subject to the option without risking your 2021 tax return, you must file an ing of your after-tax contributions isn't taxable. any capital. For example, if during the exercise period the FMV of stock subject to an option is amended return on Form 1040-X. If you greater than the option's exercise price, a profit didn't receive the distribution by April 15, If you received a corrective payment of ex- 2022, you must also add it to your wages cess annual additions, you should receive a may be realized by exercising the option and on your 2022 tax return. separate Form 1099-R for the year of the pay- immediately selling the stock at its higher value. • If the distribution was for the income ment with code E in box 7. Report the total pay- The option privilege for an option to sell is the earned on an excess deferral, your Form ment shown in box 1 of Form 1099-R on line 5a opportunity to benefit during the exercise period 1099-R should have code 8 in box 7. Add of Form 1040 or 1040-SR. Report the taxable from a decrease in the value of the property the income amount to your wages on your amount shown in box 2a of Form 1099-R on subject to the option. 2022 income tax return, regardless of line 5b of Form 1040 or 1040-SR. If you or a member of your family is an when the excess deferral was made. Even though a corrective distribution of ! officer, director, or more-than-10% Report a loss on a corrective distribution of an TIP excess annual additions is reported on CAUTION owner of an expatriated corporation, excess deferral in the year the excess amount Form 1099-R, it isn't otherwise treated you may owe an excise tax on the value of non- (reduced by the loss) is distributed to you. In- as a distribution from the plan. It can't be rolled statutory options and other stock-based com- clude the loss as a negative amount on Sched- over into another plan, and it isn't subject to the pensation from that corporation. For more infor- ule 1 (Form 1040), line 8z, and identify it as additional tax on early distributions. mation on the excise tax, see section 4985. “Loss on Excess Deferral Distribution.” Option with readily determinable value. Even though a corrective distribution of Stock Options If you receive a nonstatutory stock option that TIP excess deferrals is reported on Form has a readily determinable FMV at the time it's 1099-R, it isn't otherwise treated as a Employee stock options aren’t subject to granted to you, the option is treated like other distribution from the plan. It can't be rolled over Railroad Retirement Tax. In Wisconsin Cen- property received as compensation. See Re- into another plan, and it isn't subject to the addi- tral Ltd. v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 2067, the stricted Property, later, for rules on how much tional tax on early distributions. U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “money remu- income to include and when to include it. How- neration” is “currency issued by a recognized ever, the rule described in that discussion for Publication 525 (2022) Page 11 |
Page 12 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. choosing to include the value of property in your you generally recognize compensation income Grant of option. If you receive a statutory income for the year of the transfer doesn't apply at the time and in the amount of the reduction. stock option, don't include any amount in your to a nonstatutory option. income when the option is granted. Tax form. If you have income from the exer- Option without readily determinable cise of nonstatutory stock options, your em- Exercise of option. If you exercise a statutory value. If the FMV of the option isn't readily de- ployer should report the amount to you in stock option, don't include any amount in in- terminable at the time it's granted to you (even if box 12 of Form W-2 with code V. The employer come when you exercise the option. it's determined later), you don't have income should show the spread (that is, the FMV of until you exercise or transfer the option. stock over the exercise price of options granted Alternative minimum tax (AMT). For the to you for that stock) from your exercise of the AMT, you must treat stock acquired through the nonstatutory stock options. Your employer exercise of an ISO as if no special treatment ap- Exercise or transfer of option. When you ex- should include this amount in boxes 1, 3 (up to plied. This means that, when your rights in the ercise a nonstatutory stock option, the amount the social security wage base), and 5. Your em- stock are transferable or no longer subject to a to include in your income depends on whether ployer should include this amount in box 14 if substantial risk of forfeiture, you must include the option had a readily determinable value. it's a railroad employer. as an adjustment in figuring alternative mini- Option with readily determinable value. If you're a nonemployee spouse and you ex- mum taxable income the amount by which the When you exercise a nonstatutory stock option ercise nonstatutory stock options you received FMV of the stock exceeds the option price. En- that had a readily determinable value at the time incident to a divorce, the income is reported to ter this adjustment on line 2i of Form 6251. In- the option was granted, you don't have to in- you in box 3 of Form 1099-MISC. crease your AMT basis in any stock you acquire by exercising the ISO by the amount of the ad- clude any amount in income. justment. However, no adjustment is required if Sale of the stock. There are no special in- Option without readily determinable come rules for the sale of stock acquired you dispose of the stock in the same year you value. When you exercise a nonstatutory through the exercise of a nonstatutory stock op- exercise the option. stock option that didn't have a readily determi- tion. Report the sale as explained in the Instruc- See Restricted Property, later, for more in- nable value at the time the option was granted, tions for Schedule D (Form 1040) for the year of formation. the restricted property rules apply to the prop- the sale. You may receive a Form 1099-B re- Your AMT basis in stock acquired erty received. The amount to include in your in- porting the sales proceeds. through an ISO is likely to differ from come is the difference between the amount you Your basis in the property you acquire under RECORDS your regular tax basis. Therefore, keep pay for the property and its FMV when it be- the option is the amount you pay for it plus any adequate records for both the AMT and regular comes substantially vested. If it isn't substan- amount you included in income upon grant or tax so that you can figure your adjusted gain or tially vested at the time you exercise this non- exercise of the option. loss. statutory stock option (so that you may have to Your holding period begins as of the date give the stock back), you don't have to include you acquired the option, if it had a readily deter- Example 7. Your employer, Elm Company, any amount in income. You include the differ- minable value, or as of the date you exercised granted you an ISO on April 8, 2021, to buy 100 ence in income when the option becomes sub- or transferred the option if it had no readily de- shares of Elm Company at $9 a share, its FMV stantially vested. For more information on re- terminable value. at the time. You exercised the option on Janu- stricted property, see Restricted Property, later. For options granted on or after January 1, ary 7, 2022, when the stock was selling on the Transfer in arm's-length transaction. If 2014, the basis information reported to you on open market for $14 a share. On January 27, you transfer a nonstatutory stock option without Form 1099-B won't reflect any amount you in- 2022, when the stock was selling on the open a readily determinable value in an arm's-length cluded in income upon grant or exercise of the market for $16 a share, your rights to the stock transaction to an unrelated person, you must in- option. For options granted before January 1, first became transferable. You include $700 clude in your income the money or other prop- 2014, any basis information reported to you on ($1,600 value when your rights first became erty you received for the transfer as if you had Form 1099-B may or may not reflect any transferable minus $900 option price) as an ad- exercised the option. amount you included in income upon grant or justment on Form 6251, line 2i. exercise; therefore, the basis may need to be Transfer in non-arm's-length transac- adjusted. If you exercise an ISO during 2022, you tion. If you transfer a nonstatutory stock option TIP should receive Form 3921, or a state- without a readily determinable value in a It’s your responsibility to make any ap- ment, from the corporation for each non-arm's-length transaction (for example, a ! propriate adjustments to the basis in- transfer made during 2022. The corporation gift), the option isn't treated as exercised or CAUTION formation reported on Form 1099-B by must send or provide you with the form by Janu- closed at that time. You must include in your in- completing Form 8949. ary 31, 2023. Keep this information for your re- come, as compensation, any money or property cords. received. When the transferee exercises the option, you must include in your income, as Statutory Stock Options Sale of the stock. You have taxable income compensation, the excess of the FMV of the There are two kinds of statutory stock options. or a deductible loss when you sell the stock that stock acquired by the transferee over the sum • Incentive stock options (ISOs). you bought by exercising the option. Your in- of the exercise price paid and any amount you • Options granted under employee stock come or loss is the difference between the included in income at the time you transferred purchase plans. amount you paid for the stock (the option price) the option. At the time of the exercise, the trans- and the amount you receive when you sell it. feree recognizes no income and has a basis in For either kind of option, you must be an You generally treat this amount as capital gain the stock acquired equal to the FMV of the employee of the company granting the option, or loss and report it as explained in the Instruc- stock. or a related company, at all times during the pe- tions for Schedule D (Form 1040) for the year of Any transfer of this kind of option to a rela- riod beginning on the date the option is granted the sale. ted person is treated as a non-arm's-length and ending 3 months before the date you exer- However, you may have ordinary income for transaction. See Regulations section 1.83-7 for cise the option (for an ISO, 1 year before if the year that you sell or otherwise dispose of the definition of a related person. you're disabled). Also, the option must be non- the stock in either of the following situations. Recourse note in satisfaction of the ex- transferable except at death. • You don't satisfy the holding period re- ercise price of an option. If you're an em- quirement. ployee, and you issue a recourse note to your If you don't meet the employment require- • You satisfy the conditions described under employer in satisfaction of the exercise price of ments, or you receive a transferable option, Option granted at a discount under Em- an option to acquire your employer's stock, and your option is a nonstatutory stock option. ployee stock purchase plan, later. your employer and you subsequently agree to Your employer or former employer should re- reduce the stated principal amount of the note, port the ordinary income to you as wages in Page 12 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 13 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. box 1 of Form W-2, and you must report this or- buy 100 shares of Oak Corporation stock at $10 For this purpose, if the option price wasn't fixed dinary income amount on Form 1040 or a share, its FMV at the time. You exercised the or determinable at the time the option was gran- 1040-SR, line 1a. Enter on Schedule 1 (Form option on January 7, 2021, when the stock was ted, the option price is figured as if the option 1040), line 8k, any income from the exercise of selling on the open market for $12 a share. On had been exercised at the time it was granted. stock options not otherwise reported on Form January 27, 2022, you sold the stock for $15 a Any excess gain is capital gain. If you have 1040 or 1040-SR, line 1a. share. Although you held the stock for more a loss from the sale, it's a capital loss, and you For options granted on or after January 1, than a year, less than 2 years had passed from don't have any ordinary income. 2014, the basis information reported to you on the time you were granted the option. In 2022, Form 1099-B won't reflect any amount you in- you must report the difference between the op- Example 10. Your employer, Willow Cor- cluded in income upon grant or exercise of the tion price ($10) and the value of the stock when poration, granted you an option under its em- option. For options granted before January 1, you exercised the option ($12) as wages. The ployee stock purchase plan to buy 100 shares 2014, any basis information reported to you on rest of your gain is capital gain, figured as fol- of stock of Willow Corporation for $20 a share Form 1099-B may or may not reflect any lows. at a time when the stock had a value of $22 a amount you included in income upon grant or share. 18 months later, when the value of the exercise; therefore, the basis may need to be Selling price ($15 × 100 shares) . . . . . . . . . $ 1,500 stock was $23 a share, you exercised the op- adjusted. Purchase price ($10 × 100 shares) . . . . . . . − 1,000 tion, and 14 months after that you sold your It’s your responsibility to make any ap- Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 500 stock for $30 a share. In the year of sale, you Amount reported as wages must report as wages the difference between ! propriate adjustments to the basis in- [($12 × 100 shares) − $1,000] . . . . . . . . . . − 200 the option price ($20) and the value at the time CAUTION formation reported on Form 1099-B by the option was granted ($22). The rest of your completing Form 8949. Amount reported as capital gain . . . . . $ 300 gain ($8 per share) is capital gain, figured as follows. Holding period requirement. You satisfy Employee stock purchase plan. If you sold the holding period requirement if you don't sell stock acquired by exercising an option granted Selling price ($30 × 100 shares) . . . . . . . . . $ 3,000 the stock until the end of the later of the 1-year under an employee stock purchase plan, you Purchase price (option price) period after the stock was transferred to you or need to determine if you satisfied the holding ($20 × 100 shares) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . − 2,000 the 2-year period after the option was granted. period requirement. Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,000 However, you're considered to satisfy the hold- Amount reported as wages ing period requirement if you sold the stock to Holding period requirement satisfied. If [($22 × 100 shares) − $2,000] . . . . . . . . . . . − 200 comply with conflict-of-interest requirements. you sold stock acquired by exercising an option Amount reported as capital gain . . . . . $ 800 Your holding period for the property you ac- granted under an employee stock purchase quire when you exercise an option begins on plan, and you satisfy the holding period require- the day after you exercise the option. ment, determine your ordinary income as fol- Holding period requirement not satis- lows. fied. If you don't satisfy the holding period re- ISOs. If you sell stock acquired by exercising Your basis is equal to the option price at the quirement, your ordinary income is the amount an ISO, you need to determine if you satisfied time you exercised your option and acquired by which the stock's FMV when you exercised the holding period requirement. the stock. The timing and amount of pay period the option exceeded the option price. This ordi- deductions don't affect your basis. nary income isn't limited to your gain from the Holding period requirement satisfied. If sale of the stock. Increase your basis in the you sell stock acquired by exercising an ISO Example 9. Pine Company has an em- stock by the amount of this ordinary income. and satisfy the holding period requirement, your ployee stock purchase plan. The option price is The difference between your increased basis gain or loss from the sale is capital gain or loss. the lower of the stock price at the time the op- and the selling price of the stock is a capital Report the sale as explained in the Instructions tion is granted or at the time the option is exer- gain or loss. for Schedule D (Form 1040). The basis of your cised. The value of the stock when the option stock is the amount you paid for the stock. was granted was $25. Pine Company deducts Example 11. The facts are the same as in Holding period requirement not satis- $5 from Adrian's pay every week for 48 weeks Example 10, except that you sold the stock only fied. If you sell stock acquired by exercising (total = $240 ($5 × 48)). The value of the stock 6 months after you exercised the option. You an ISO, don't satisfy the holding period require- when the option is exercised is $20. Adrian re- didn't satisfy the holding period requirement, so ment, and have a gain from the sale, the gain is ceives 12 shares of Pine Company’s stock you must report $300 as wages and $700 as ordinary income up to the amount by which the ($240 ÷ $20). Adrian's holding period for all 12 capital gain, figured as follows. stock's FMV when you exercised the option ex- shares begins the day after the option is exer- ceeded the option price. Any excess gain is cised, even though the money used to pur- Selling price ($30 × 100 shares) . . . . . . . . . $3,000 capital gain. If you have a loss from the sale, it's chase the shares was deducted from Adrian's Purchase price (option price) a capital loss and you don't have any ordinary pay on 48 separate days. Adrian's basis in each ($20 × 100 shares) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . − 2,000 income. share is $20. Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,000 Amount reported as wages Your employer or former employer should Option granted at a discount. If, at the [($23 × 100 shares) − $2,000] . . . . . . . . . . . − 300 report the ordinary income to you as wages in time the option was granted, the option price Amount reported as capital gain box 1 of Form W-2, and you must report this or- per share was less than 100% (but not less than [$3,000 – ($2,000 + $300)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . $700 dinary income amount on Form 1040 or 85%) of the FMV of the share, and you dispose 1040-SR, line 1a. If your employer or former of the share after meeting the holding period re- If you sold stock in 2022 that you ac- employer doesn't provide you with a Form W-2, quirement, or you die while owning the share, TIP quired by exercising an option granted or if the Form W-2 doesn't include the ordinary you must include in your income as compensa- at a discount under an employee stock income in box 1, you must report the ordinary tion the lesser of: purchase plan, you should receive Form 3922 income as wages on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), • The excess of the FMV of the share at the from the corporation. The corporation must line 8k, for the year of the sale or other disposi- time the option was granted over the op- send or provide you with the form by January tion of the stock. Report the capital gain or loss tion price, or 31, 2023. Keep this information for your re- as explained in the Instructions for Schedule D • The excess of the FMV of the share at the cords. (Form 1040). In determining capital gain or loss, time of the disposition or death over the your basis is the amount you paid when you ex- amount paid for the share under the op- ercised the option plus the amount reported as tion. Qualified Equity Grants wages. P.L. 115-97 made a change in the law that al- Example 8. Your employer, Oak Corpora- lows a new election for “qualified employees” of tion, granted you an ISO on March 12, 2020, to private corporations to elect to defer income Publication 525 (2022) Page 13 |
Page 14 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. taxation for up to 5 years from the date of vest- Restricted Property resell the stock to the corporation at $100 a ing on “qualified stock” granted in connection share if you leave your job for any reason within with broad-based compensatory stock option In most cases, if you receive property for your 3 years from the date of transfer. You must per- and restricted stock unit (RSU) programs. This services, you must include its FMV in your in- form substantial services over a period of time, election is available for stock attributable to op- come in the year you receive the property. How- and you must resell the stock to the corporation tions exercised or RSUs settled after 2017. The ever, if you receive stock or other property that at $100 a share (regardless of its value) if you corporation must have a written plan providing has certain restrictions that affect its value, you don't perform the services; so, your rights to the RSU or option to at least 80% of U.S. employ- don't include the value of the property in your in- stock are subject to a substantial risk of forfei- ees. The recipients must have the same rights come until it has been substantially vested. ture. and privileges under RSU or option plan. (You can choose to include the value of the The term “qualified employee” doesn’t in- property in your income in the year it's transfer- Choosing to include in income for year of clude: red to you, as discussed later, rather than the transfer.- You can choose to include the value • 1% owner of corporation (current or any year it's substantially vested.) of restricted property at the time of transfer (mi- nus any amount you paid for the property) in point during prior 10 calendar years), Until the property becomes substantially your income for the year it's transferred. If you • Current or former CEO or CFO (current or vested, it's owned by the person who makes the make this choice, the substantial vesting rules any point previously), transfer to you, usually your employer. How- don't apply and, generally, any later apprecia- ever, any income from the property, or the right tion in value isn't included in your compensation • Family of previously mentioned individuals, to use the property, is included in your income when the property becomes substantially ves- or as additional compensation in the year you re- ted. Your basis for figuring gain or loss when • One of the four highest compensated offi- ceive the income or have the right to use the you sell the property is the amount you paid for cers (current or any point during prior 10 property. it plus the amount you included in income as calendar years). When the property becomes substantially compensation. The term “qualified stock” means any stock vested, you must include its FMV, minus any If you make this choice, you can't re- in a corporation that is the employer of the em- amount you paid for it, in your income for that ! voke it without the consent of the IRS. ployee if: year. Your holding period for this property be- CAUTION Consent will be given only if you were • Stock is received relating to the exercise of gins when the property becomes substantially under a mistake of fact as to the underlying an option, or vested. transaction. • Stock is received in settlement of an RSU, Example 12. Your employer, the Holly If you forfeit the property after you have in- and Corporation, sells you 100 shares of its stock at cluded its value in income, your loss is the • Option or RSU was granted by the corpo- $10 a share. At the time of the sale, the FMV of amount you paid for the property minus any ration. the stock is $100 a share. Under the terms of amount you realized on the forfeiture. the sale, the stock is under a substantial risk of You can't make this choice for a non- The term “qualified stock” can’t include forfeiture (you have a good chance of losing it) ! statutory stock option. stock from stock-settled stock appreciation for a 5-year period. Your stock isn't substantially CAUTION rights or restricted stock awards (restricted vested when it's transferred, so you don't in- property). It won’t include any stock if the em- clude any amount in your income in the year How to make the choice. You make the ployee may receive cash instead of stock. The you buy it. At the end of the 5-year period, the choice by filing a written statement with the In- election is made in a manner similar to the elec- FMV of the stock is $200 a share. You must in- ternal Revenue Service Center where you file tion described under Choosing to include in in- clude $19,000 in your income [100 shares × your return. You must file this statement no later come for year of transfer, later, under Restricted ($200 FMV − $10 you paid)]. Dividends paid by than 30 days after the date the property was Property, even though the “qualified stock” isn't the Holly Corporation on your 100 shares of transferred. Mail your statement to the address restricted property. The election must be made stock are taxable to you as additional compen- listed for your state under “Are requesting a re- no later than 30 days after the first date the sation during the period the stock can be forfei- fund or aren’t enclosing a check or money or- rights of the employee in such stock are trans- ted. der...” given in Where Do You File in the Instruc- ferable or aren’t subject to a substantial risk of tions for Forms 1040 and 1040-SR. You must forfeiture, whichever occurs earlier. See Re- Substantially vested. Property is substantially give a copy of this statement to the person for stricted Property, later, for how to make the vested when: whom you performed the services and, if some- choice. • It’s transferable, or one other than you received the property, to If an employee elects to defer income inclu- • It isn't subject to a substantial risk of forfei- that person. sion under the provision, the income must be in- ture. (You don't have a good chance of los- You must sign the statement and indicate on cluded in the employee's income for the year ing it.) it that you're making the choice under section 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code. The state- that includes the earliest of (1) the first date the Transferable property. Property is trans- ment must contain all of the following informa- qualified stock becomes transferable, (2) the ferable if you can sell, assign, or pledge your in- tion. date the employee first becomes an excluded terest in the property to any person (other than • Your name, address, and TIN. employee (as excluded from “qualified em- the transferor), and if the person receiving your • A description of each property for which ployee”), (3) the first date on which any stock of interest in the property isn't required to give up you're making the choice. the employer becomes readily tradable on an the property, or its value, if the substantial risk • The date or dates on which the property established securities market, (4) the date 5 of forfeiture occurs. was transferred and the tax year for which years after the first date the employee's right to the stock becomes substantially vested, or (5) Substantial risk of forfeiture. Generally, you're making the choice. the date on which the employee revokes his or a substantial risk of forfeiture exists only if rights • The nature of any restrictions on the prop- her inclusion deferral election. in property that are transferred are conditioned, erty. directly or indirectly, on the future performance • The FMV at the time of transfer (ignoring The employer corporation is required to pro- (or refraining from performance) of substantial restrictions except those that will never vide notification of rights to employees covered services by any person, or on the occurrence of lapse) of each property for which you're under a qualified program or face penalties. a condition related to a purpose of the transfer if making the choice. There will be withholding at the highest mar- the possibility of forfeiture is substantial. • Any amount that you paid for the property. ginal rate. • A statement that you have provided copies Example 13. The Redwood Corporation to the appropriate persons. transfers to you as compensation for services 100 shares of its corporate stock for $100 a share. Under the terms of the transfer, you must Page 14 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 15 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. You can't make this choice for a non- Inherited property not substantially vested. in the exercise of duties required by the order, ! statutory stock option. If you inherit property not substantially vested at don't include in your income the amounts turned CAUTION the time of the decedent's death, any income over to the order. you receive from the property is considered in- If your order directs you to perform services Dividends received on restricted stock. come in respect of a decedent and is taxed ac- for another agency of the supervising church or Dividends you receive on restricted stock are cording to the rules for restricted property re- an associated institution, you're considered to treated as compensation and not as dividend ceived for services. For information about be performing the services as an agent of the income. Your employer should include these income in respect of a decedent, see Pub. 559. order. Any wages you earn as an agent of an payments on your Form W-2. If they are also re- order that you turn over to the order aren't inclu- ported on a Form 1099-DIV, you should list ded in your income. them on Schedule B (Form 1040), with a state- Special Rules for ment that you have included them as wages. Example 15. You're a member of a church Don’t include them in the total dividends re- Certain Employees order and have taken a vow of poverty. You re- ceived. nounce any claims to your earnings and turn This part of the publication deals with special over to the order any salaries or wages you Stock you chose to include in your in- rules for people in certain types of employment: earn. You're a registered nurse, so your order come. Dividends you receive on restricted members of the clergy, members of religious or- assigns you to work in a hospital that is an as- stock you chose to include in your income in the ders, people working for foreign employers, sociated institution of the church. However, you year transferred are treated the same as any military personnel, and volunteers. remain under the general direction and control other dividends. You should receive a Form of the order. You're considered to be an agent 1099-DIV showing these dividends. Don’t in- of the order and any wages you earn at the hos- clude the dividends in your wages on your re- Clergy pital that you turn over to your order aren't inclu- turn. Report them as dividends. ded in your income. If you’re a member of the clergy, you must in- Sale of property not substantially vested. clude in your income offerings and fees you re- Services performed outside the order. If These rules apply to the sale or other disposi- ceive for marriages, baptisms, funerals, you're directed to work outside the order, your tion of property that you didn't choose to include masses, etc., in addition to your salary. If the of- services aren't an exercise of duties required by in your income in the year transferred and that fering is made to the religious institution, it isn't the order unless they meet both of the following isn't substantially vested. taxable to you. requirements. If you sell or otherwise dispose of the prop- • They're the kind of services that are ordi- erty in an arm's-length transaction, include in If you’re a member of a religious organiza- your income as compensation for the year of tion and you give your outside earnings to the narily the duties of members of the order. sale the amount realized minus the amount you organization, you must still include the earnings • They're part of the duties that you must ex- paid for the property. If you exchange the prop- in your income. However, you may be entitled ercise for, or on behalf of, the religious or- erty in an arm's-length transaction for other to a charitable contribution deduction for the der as its agent. property that isn't substantially vested, treat the amount paid to the organization. See Pub. 526. If you're an employee of a third party, the serv- new property as if it were substituted for the ex- Also, see Members of Religious Orders, later. ices you perform for the third party won't be changed property. considered directed or required of you by the Pension. A pension or retirement pay for a order. Amounts you receive for these services The sale or other disposition of a nonstatu- member of the clergy is usually treated as any are included in your income, even if you have tory stock option to a related person isn't con- other pension or annuity. It must be reported on taken a vow of poverty. sidered an arm's-length transaction. See Regu- lines 5a and 5b of Form 1040 or 1040-SR. lations section 1.83-7 for the definition of a “related person.” Example 16. You are a member of a reli- If you sell the property in a transaction that Housing gious order and have taken a vow of poverty. You renounce all claims to your earnings and isn't at arm's length, include in your income as turn over your earnings to the order. compensation for the year of sale the total of Special rules for housing apply to members of any money you received and the FMV of any the clergy. Under these rules, you don't include You are a schoolteacher. You were instruc- substantially vested property you received on in your income the rental value of a home (in- ted by the superiors of the order to get a job the sale. In addition, you'll have to report in- cluding utilities) or a designated housing allow- with a private tax-exempt school. You became come when the original property becomes sub- ance provided to you as part of your pay. How- an employee of the school, and, at your re- stantially vested, as if you still held it. Report as ever, the exclusion can't be more than the quest, the school made the salary payments di- compensation its FMV minus the total of the reasonable pay for your service. If you pay for rectly to the order. amount you paid for the property and the the utilities, you can exclude any allowance Because you are an employee of the school, amount included in your income from the earlier designated for utility cost, up to your actual you’re performing services for the school rather sale. cost. The home or allowance must be provided than as an agent of the order. The wages you as compensation for your services as an or- earn working for the school are included in your Example 14. In 2019, you paid your em- dained, licensed, or commissioned minister. income. ployer $50 for a share of stock that had an FMV However, you must include the rental value of of $100 and was subject to forfeiture until 2022. the home or the housing allowance as earnings Example 17. You are a member of a reli- In 2021, you sold the stock to your spouse for from self-employment on Schedule SE (Form gious order who, as a condition of membership, $10 in a transaction not at arm's length. You 1040) if you’re subject to the self-employment have taken vows of poverty and obedience. All had compensation of $10 from this transaction. tax. For more information, see Pub. 517. claims to your earnings are renounced. You re- ceived permission from the order to establish a In 2022, when the stock had an FMV of $120, it private practice as a psychologist and counsel became substantially vested. For 2021, you Members of Religious members of religious orders as well as non- must report additional compensation of $60, fig- members. Although the order reviews your ured as follows. Orders budget annually, you control not only the details If you're a member of a religious order who has of your practice but also the means by which FMV of stock at time of substantial taken a vow of poverty, how you treat earnings your work as a psychologist is accomplished. vesting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $120 Your private practice as a psychologist Minus: Amount paid for stock . . . . . . . $50 that you renounce and turn over to the order de- Minus: Compensation previously pends on whether your services are performed doesn't make you an agent of the religious or- included in income from sale to for the order. der. The psychological services you provide spouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 − 60 aren't the type of services that are provided by Additional income . . . . . . . . . . $60 Services performed for the order. If you're the order. The income you earn as a psycholo- performing the services as an agent of the order gist is earned in your individual capacity. You Publication 525 (2022) Page 15 |
Page 16 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. must include in your income the earnings from Differential wage payments. Any payments years after the date you paid the tax, whichever your private practice. made to you by an employer during the time is later. See the Instructions for Form 1040-X for you're performing service in the uniformed serv- information on filing that form. ices are treated as compensation. These wages Foreign Employer are subject to income tax withholding and are reported on Form W-2. See the discussion un- Volunteers Special rules apply if you work for a foreign em- der Miscellaneous Compensation, earlier. The tax treatment of amounts you receive as a ployer. Military retirement pay. If your retirement pay volunteer is covered in the following discus- U.S. citizen. If you're a U.S. citizen who works is based on age or length of service, it’s taxable sions. in the United States for a foreign government, and must be included in your income as a pen- Peace Corps. Living allowances you receive an international organization, a foreign em- sion on lines 5a and 5b of Form 1040 or as a Peace Corps volunteer or volunteer leader bassy, or any foreign employer, you must in- 1040-SR. Don’t include in your income the for housing, utilities, household supplies, food, clude your salary in your income. amount of any reduction in retirement or re- and clothing are exempt from tax. Social security and Medicare taxes. tainer pay to provide a survivor annuity for your You're exempt from social security and Medi- spouse or children under the Retired Service- Taxable allowances. The following allow- care employee taxes if you're employed in the man's Family Protection Plan or the Survivor ances must be included in your income and re- United States by an international organization Benefit Plan. ported as wages. or a foreign government. However, you must For a more detailed discussion of survivor • Allowances paid to your spouse and minor pay self-employment tax on your earnings from annuities, see Pub. 575. children while you're a volunteer leader training in the United States. services performed in the United States, even Disability. If you're retired on disability, see • Living allowances designated by the Direc- though you aren't self-employed. This rule also Military and Government Disability Pensions tor of the Peace Corps as basic compen- applies if you're an employee of a qualifying under Sickness and Injury Benefits, later. sation. These are allowances for personal wholly owned instrumentality of a foreign gov- items such as domestic help, laundry and ernment. Qualified reservist distribution (QRD). If you clothing maintenance, entertainment and received a QRD of all or part of the balance in recreation, transportation, and other mis- Employees of international organizations or your health FSA because you're a reservist and cellaneous expenses. foreign governments. Your compensation you have been ordered or called to active duty • Leave allowances. for official services to an international organiza- for a period of 180 days or more, the QRD is • Readjustment allowances or termination tion is exempt from federal income tax if you treated as wages and is reportable on Form payments. These are considered received aren't a citizen of the United States or you're a W-2. by you when credited to your account. citizen of the Philippines (whether or not you're a citizen of the United States). Veterans' benefits. Don’t include in your in- Example 18. You are a Peace Corps vol- Your compensation for official services to a come any veterans' benefits paid under any unteer and get $175 a month as a readjustment foreign government is exempt from federal in- law, regulation, or administrative practice ad- allowance during your period of service, to be come tax if all of the following are true. ministered by the Department of Veterans Af- paid to you in a lump sum at the end of your tour • You aren't a citizen of the United States or fairs (VA). The following amounts paid to veter- of duty. Although the allowance isn't available to you're a citizen of the Philippines (whether ans or their families aren't taxable. you until the end of your service, you must in- or not you're a citizen of the United States). • Education, training, and subsistence allow- clude it in your income on a monthly basis as • Your work is like the work done by employ- ances. it’s credited to your account. ees of the United States in foreign coun- • Disability compensation and pension pay- tries. ments for disabilities paid either to veter- Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA). If • The foreign government gives an equal ex- ans or their families. you're a VISTA volunteer, you must include emption to employees of the United States • Grants for homes designed for wheelchair meal and lodging allowances paid to you in in its country. living. your income as wages. Waiver of alien status. If you're an alien • Grants for motor vehicles for veterans who who works for a foreign government or interna- lost their sight or the use of their limbs. National Senior Service Corps programs. tional organization and you file a waiver under • Veterans' insurance proceeds and divi- Don’t include in your income amounts you re- section 247(b) of the Immigration and National- dends paid either to veterans or their bene- ceive for supportive services or reimburse- ity Act to keep your immigrant status, any salary ficiaries, including the proceeds of a veter- ments for out-of-pocket expenses from the fol- you receive after the date you file the waiver an's endowment policy paid before death. lowing programs. isn't exempt under this rule. However, it may be • Interest on insurance dividends left on de- • Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). exempt under a treaty or agreement. See Pub. posit with the VA. • Foster Grandparent Program. 519, U.S. Tax Guide for Aliens, for more infor- • Benefits under a dependent-care assis- • Senior Companion Program. mation about treaties. tance program. • The death gratuity paid to a survivor of a Service Corps of Retired Executives Nonwage income. This exemption applies member of the U.S. Armed Forces who (SCORE). If you receive amounts for suppor- only to employees' wages, salaries, and fees. died after September 10, 2001. tive services or reimbursements for Pensions and other income, such as investment • Payments made under the compensated out-of-pocket expenses from SCORE, don't in- income, don't qualify for this exemption. work therapy program. clude these amounts in gross income. • Any bonus payment by a state or political Employment abroad. For information on the subdivision because of service in a combat Volunteer tax counseling. Don’t include in tax treatment of income earned abroad, see zone. your income any reimbursements you receive Pub. 54. for transportation, meals, and other expenses Note. If, in a previous year, you received a you have in training for, or actually providing, bonus payment by a state or political subdivi- volunteer federal income tax counseling for the Military sion because of service in a combat zone that elderly (TCE). you included in your income, you can file a You can deduct as a charitable contribution Payments you receive as a member of a military claim for refund of the taxes on that income. your unreimbursed out-of-pocket expenses in service are generally taxed as wages except for Use Form 1040-X to file the claim. File a sepa- taking part in the volunteer income tax assis- retirement pay, which is taxed as a pension. Al- rate form for each tax year involved. In most ca- tance (VITA) program. lowances generally aren't taxed. For more infor- ses, you must file your claim within 3 years after mation on the tax treatment of military allowan- the date you filed your original return or within 2 ces and benefits, see Pub. 3. Page 16 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 17 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Volunteer firefighters and emergency medi- a loss to offset other income. See Activity not amount to arrive at your taxable income from cal responders. If you are a volunteer fire- for profit under Other Income, later. the property. fighter or emergency medical responder, do not include in your income the following benefits you receive from a state or local government. Royalties Partnership Income • Rebates or reductions of property or in- A partnership generally isn't a taxable entity. come taxes you receive because of serv- Royalties from copyrights; patents; and oil, gas, ices you performed as a volunteer fire- and mineral properties are taxable as ordinary The income, gains, losses, deductions, and fighter or emergency medical responder. income. credits of a partnership are passed through to the partners based on each partner's distribu- • Payments you receive because of services tive share of these items. For more information, you performed as a volunteer firefighter or In most cases, you report royalties on emergency medical responder, up to $50 Schedule E (Form 1040). However, if you hold see Pub. 541. for each month you provided services. an operating oil, gas, or mineral interest or are in business as a self-employed writer, inventor, Partner's distributive share. Your distribu- The excluded income reduces any related artist, etc., report your income and expenses on tive share of partnership income, gains, losses, tax or contribution deduction. Schedule C (Form 1040). deductions, or credits is generally based on the partnership agreement. You must report your Copyrights and patents. Royalties from distributive share of these items on your return Business and copyrights on literary, musical, or artistic works, whether or not they are actually distributed to and similar property, or from patents on inven- you. However, your distributive share of the Investment Income tions, are amounts paid to you for the right to partnership losses is limited to the adjusted ba- use your work over a specified period of time. sis of your partnership interest at the end of the This section provides information on the treat- Royalties are generally based on the number of partnership year in which the losses took place. ment of income from certain rents and royalties, units sold, such as the number of books, tickets Partnership agreement. The partnership and from interests in partnerships and S corpo- to a performance, or machines sold. agreement usually covers the distribution of rations. profits, losses, and other items. However, if the Oil, gas, and minerals. Royalty income from agreement doesn't state how a specific item of Note. You may be subject to the Net Invest- oil, gas, and mineral properties is the amount gain or loss will be shared, or the allocation sta- ment Income Tax (NIIT). The NIIT is a 3.8% tax you receive when natural resources are extrac- ted in the agreement doesn't have substantial on the lesser of net investment income or the ted from your property. The royalties are gener- economic effect, your distributive share is fig- excess of your modified adjusted gross income ally based on production or revenue and are ured according to your interest in the partner- (MAGI) over a threshold amount. For details, paid to you by a person or company who leases ship. see Form 8960 and its instructions. the property from you. Income from sales at auctions, includ- Depletion. If you're the owner of an eco- Partnership return. Although a partnership ! ing online auctions, may be business nomic interest in mineral deposits or oil and gas generally pays no tax, it must file an information CAUTION income. For more information, see return on Form 1065. This shows the result of wells, you can recover your investment through Pub. 334. the depletion allowance. For information on this the partnership's operations for its tax year and subject, see chapter 9 of Pub. 535. the items that must be passed through to the partners. Rents From Personal Coal and iron ore. Under certain circum- Property stances, you can treat amounts you receive Schedule K-1 (Form 1065). You should from the disposal of coal and iron ore as pay- receive from each partnership in which you're a If you rent out personal property, such as equip- ments from the sale of a capital asset, rather member a copy of Schedule K-1 (Form 1065) ment or vehicles, how you report your income than as royalty income. For information about showing your share of income, deductions, and expenses is in most cases determined by: gain or loss from the sale of coal and iron ore, credits, and tax preference items of the partner- • Whether or not the rental activity is a busi- see chapter 2 of Pub. 544. ship for the tax year. Keep Schedule K-1 for ness, and your records. Don’t attach it to your Form 1040 • Whether or not the rental activity is con- Sale of property interest. If you sell your or 1040-SR, unless you're specifically required ducted for profit. complete interest in oil, gas, or mineral rights, to do so. the amount you receive is considered payment In most cases, if your primary purpose is in- for the sale of section 1231 property, not royalty Partner's return. You must generally report come or profit and you're involved in the rental income. Under certain circumstances, the sale partnership items on your individual return the activity with continuity and regularity, your rental is subject to capital gain or loss treatment as same way as they're reported on the partner- activity is a business. See Pub. 535 for details explained in the Instructions for Schedule D ship return. That is, if the partnership had a cap- on deducting expenses for both business and (Form 1040). For more information on selling ital gain, you report your share as explained in not-for-profit activities. section 1231 property, see chapter 3 of Pub. the Instructions for Schedule D (Form 1040). 544. You report your share of partnership ordinary Reporting business income and expenses. If you retain a royalty, an overriding royalty, income on Schedule E (Form 1040). If you're in the business of renting personal or a net profit interest in a mineral property for property, report your income and expenses on the life of the property, you have made a lease In many cases, Schedule K-1 (Form Schedule C (Form 1040). The form instructions or a sublease, and any cash you receive for the TIP 1065) will tell you where to report an have information on how to complete them. assignment of other interests in the property is item of income on your individual re- ordinary income subject to a depletion allow- turn. Reporting nonbusiness income. If you ance. aren't in the business of renting personal prop- Qualified joint venture. If you and your erty, report your rental income on Schedule 1 Part of future production sold (carved spouse each materially participate as the only (Form 1040), line 8l. out production payment). If you own mineral members of a jointly owned and operated busi- property but sell part of the future production, in ness, and you file a joint return for the tax year, Reporting nonbusiness expenses. If you most cases you treat the money you receive you can make a joint election to be treated as a rent personal property for profit, include your from the buyer at the time of the sale as a loan qualified joint venture instead of a partnership. rental expenses in the total amount you enter from the buyer. Don’t include it in your income To make this election, you must divide all items on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 24b. or take depletion based on it. of income, gain, loss, deduction, and credit at- If you don't rent personal property for profit, When production begins, you include all the tributable to the business between you and your your deductions are limited and you can't report proceeds in your income, deduct all the produc- spouse in accordance with your respective tion expenses, and deduct depletion from that Publication 525 (2022) Page 17 |
Page 18 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. interests in the venture. For further information Sickness and Injury Benefits, later in this dis- Contact the company or agency mak- on how to make the election and which sched- cussion. TIP ing these payments if it incorrectly re- ule(s) to file, see the instructions for your indi- ports your payments as taxable income vidual tax return. Don’t report as income any amounts to the IRS on Form W-2, or on Form 1099-R, to TIP paid to reimburse you for medical ex- request that it reissue the form to report some penses you incurred after the plan was or all of these payments as nontaxable income S Corporation Income established. in box 12 (under code J) of Form W-2 or in box 1 but not in box 2a of Form 1099-R. If in- In most cases, an S corporation doesn't pay tax Cost paid by you. If you pay the entire cost of come taxes are being incorrectly withheld from on its income. Instead, the income, losses, de- an accident or health plan, don't include any these payments, you may also submit Form ductions, and credits of the corporation are amounts you receive from the plan for personal W-4 to the company or agency to stop the with- passed through to the shareholders based on injury or sickness as income on your tax return. holding of income taxes from payments repor- each shareholder's pro rata share. You must re- If your plan reimbursed you for medical expen- ted on Form W-2 or you may submit Form W-4P port your share of these items on your return. In ses you deducted in an earlier year, you may to stop the withholding of income taxes from most cases, the items passed through to you have to include some, or all, of the reimburse- payments reported on Form 1099-R. will increase or decrease the basis of your S ment in your income. See Recoveries under corporation stock as appropriate. Miscellaneous Income, later. Disability payments you receive for injuries not incurred as a direct result of a terrorist at- S corporation return. An S corporation must Cafeteria plans. In most cases, if you're cov- tack or military action or for illnesses or disea- file a return on Form 1120-S. This shows the re- ered by an accident or health insurance plan ses not resulting from an injury incurred as a di- sults of the corporation's operations for its tax through a cafeteria plan, and the amount of the rect result of a terrorist attack or military action year and the items of income, losses, deduc- insurance premiums wasn't included in your in- can't be excluded from your income under this tions, or credits that affect the shareholders' in- come, you aren't considered to have paid the provision but may be excludable for other rea- dividual income tax returns. premiums and you must include any benefits sons. See Pub. 907. Schedule K-1 (Form 1120-S). You should you receive in your income. If the amount of the receive a copy of Schedule K-1 (Form 1120-S) premiums was included in your income, you're Retirement and profit-sharing plans. If you from any S corporation in which you're a share- considered to have paid the premiums and any receive payments from a retirement or holder. Schedule K-1 (Form 1120-S) shows benefits you receive aren't taxable. profit-sharing plan that doesn't provide for disa- bility retirement, don't treat the payments as a your share of income, losses, deductions, and disability pension. The payments must be re- credits for the tax year. Keep Schedule K-1 Disability Pensions ported as a pension or annuity. (Form 1120-S) for your records. Don’t attach it to your Form 1040 or 1040-SR, unless you're If you retired on disability, you must include in Accrued leave payment. If you retire on disa- specifically required to do so. income any disability pension you receive under bility, any lump-sum payment you receive for a plan that is paid for by your employer. You accrued annual leave is a salary payment. The Shareholder's return. Your distributive share must report your taxable disability payments as payment isn't a disability payment. Include it in of the items of income, losses, deductions, or wages on line 1a of Form 1040 or 1040-SR until your income in the tax year you receive it. credits of the S corporation must be shown sep- you reach minimum retirement age. Minimum arately on your Form 1040 or 1040-SR. The retirement age is generally the age at which you Military and Government character of these items is generally the same can first receive a pension or annuity if you as if you had realized or incurred them person- aren't disabled. Disability Pensions ally. You may be entitled to a tax credit if Certain military and government disability pen- In many cases, Schedule K-1 (Form TIP you were permanently and totally disa- sions aren't taxable. TIP 1120-S) will tell you where to report an bled when you retired. For information item of income on your individual re- on this credit, see Pub. 524. Service-connected disability. You may be turn. able to exclude from income amounts you re- Beginning on the day after you reach mini- ceive as a pension, annuity, or similar allow- Distributions. In most cases, S corpora- mum retirement age, payments you receive are ance for personal injury or sickness resulting tion distributions are a nontaxable return of your taxable as a pension or annuity. Report the pay- from active service in one of the following gov- basis in the corporation stock. However, in cer- ments on lines 5a and 5b of Form 1040 or ernment services. tain cases, part of the distributions may be taxa- 1040-SR. For more information on pensions • The armed forces of any country. ble as a dividend, or as a long-term or and annuities, see Pub. 575. • The National Oceanic and Atmospheric short-term capital gain, or as both. The corpora- Administration. tion's distributions may be in the form of cash or Terrorist attacks or military action. Don’t in- • The Public Health Service. property. clude in your income disability payments you • The Foreign Service. receive for injuries incurred as a direct result of More information. For more information, see terrorist attacks or military action directed Conditions for exclusion. Don’t include the Instructions for Form 1120-S. against the United States (or its allies), whether the disability payments in your income if any of outside or within the United States. In the case the following conditions apply. of the September 11 attacks, injuries eligible for 1. You were entitled to receive a disability Sickness and coverage by the September 11 Victim Compen- payment before September 25, 1975. sation Fund are treated as incurred as a direct Injury Benefits result of the attack. However, you must include 2. You were a member of a listed govern- in your income any amounts that you received ment service or its reserve component, or In most cases, you must report as income any that you would have received in retirement had were under a binding written commitment amount you receive for personal injury or sick- you not become disabled as a result of a terro- to become a member, on September 24, ness through an accident or health plan that is rist attack or military action. Accordingly, you 1975. paid for by your employer. If both you and your must include in your income any payments you 3. You receive the disability payments for a employer pay for the plan, only the amount you receive from a 401(k), pension, or other retire- combat-related injury. This is a personal receive that is due to your employer's payments ment plan to the extent that you would have re- injury or sickness that: is reported as income. However, certain pay- ceived the amount at the same or later time re- ments may not be taxable to you. For informa- gardless of whether you had become disabled. a. Results directly from armed conflict; tion on nontaxable payments, see Military and See Pub. 907. b. Takes place while you're engaged in Government Disability Pensions and Other extra-hazardous service; Page 18 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 19 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. c. Takes place under conditions simulat- tax year that began more than 5 years before only to reduce future premiums or increase ing war, including training exercises the date of the determination. future benefits; and such as maneuvers; or • In most cases, not pay or reimburse ex- Example 19. You retired in 2016 and re- penses incurred for services or items that d. Is caused by an instrumentality of war. ceive a pension based on your years of service. would be reimbursed under Medicare, ex- 4. You would be entitled to receive disability On August 3, 2022, you receive a determination cept where Medicare is a secondary payer compensation from the VA if you filed an of service-connected disability retroactive to or the contract makes per diem or other application for it. Your exclusion under this 2016. Generally, you could claim a refund for periodic payments without regard to ex- condition is equal to the amount you would the taxes paid on your pension for 2019, 2020, penses. be entitled to receive from the VA. and 2021. However, under the special limitation period, you can also file a claim for 2018 as Qualified long-term care services. Qualified Pension based on years of service. If you long as you file the claim by August 3, 2023. long-term care services are: receive a disability pension based on years of You can't file a claim for 2016 and 2017 be- • Necessary diagnostic, preventive, thera- service, in most cases, you must include it in cause those tax years began more than 5 years peutic, curing, treating, mitigating, rehabili- your income. However, if the pension qualifies before the determination. tative services, and maintenance and per- for the exclusion for a service-connected disa- sonal care services; and bility (discussed earlier), don't include in income Terrorist attack or military action. Don’t in- • Required by a chronically ill individual and the part of your pension that you would have re- clude in your income disability payments you provided pursuant to a plan of care prescri- ceived if the pension had been based on a per- receive for injuries resulting directly from a ter- bed by a licensed health care practitioner. centage of disability. You must include the rest rorist or military action. In the case of the Sep- of your pension in your income. tember 11 attacks, injuries eligible for coverage Chronically ill individual. A chronically ill indi- by the September 11 Victim Compensation vidual is one who has been certified by a li- Retroactive VA determination. If you re- Fund are treated as incurred as a direct result of censed health care practitioner within the previ- tire from the U.S. Armed Forces based on years the attack. However, you must include in your ous 12 months as one of the following. of service and are later given a retroactive serv- income any amounts that you received that you • An individual who, for at least 90 days, is ice-connected disability rating by the VA, your would have received in retirement had you not unable to perform at least two activities of retirement pay for the retroactive period is ex- become disabled as a result of a terrorist or daily living without substantial assistance cluded from income up to the amount of VA dis- military action. Accordingly, you must include in due to a loss of functional capacity. Activi- ability benefits you would have been entitled to your income any payments you receive from a ties of daily living are eating, toileting, receive. You can claim a refund of any tax paid 401(k), pension, or other retirement plan to the transferring, bathing, dressing, and conti- on the excludable amount (subject to the stat- extent that you would have received the amount nence. ute of limitations) by filing an amended return at the same or later time regardless of whether • An individual who requires substantial su- on Form 1040-X for each previous year during you had become disabled. Disability payments pervision to be protected from threats to the retroactive period. You must include with you receive for injuries not incurred as a direct health and safety due to severe cognitive each Form 1040-X a copy of the official VA de- result of a terrorist or military action or for ill- impairment. termination letter granting the retroactive bene- nesses or diseases not resulting from an injury fit. The letter must show the amount withheld incurred as a direct result of a terrorist or mili- Limit on exclusion. The exclusion for pay- and the effective date of the benefit. tary action may be excludable from income for ments made on a per diem or other periodic ba- Generally, the VA determination letter will other reasons. See Pub. 907. sis under a long-term care insurance contract is contain a table with five headings. The table on A terrorist action is one that is directed subject to a limit. The limit applies to the total of the letter must cover the same dates for the tax against the United States or any of its allies (in- these payments and any accelerated death year reported on the Form 1040-X. To calculate cluding a multinational force in which the United benefits made on a per diem or other periodic the correct tax reduction, multiply the Effective States is participating). A military action is one basis under a life insurance contract because Months by the Amount Withheld for the tax that involves the U.S. Armed Forces and is a re- the insured is chronically ill. (For more informa- year. For example, Form 1040-X filed for tax sult of actual or threatened violence or aggres- tion on accelerated death benefits, see Life In- year 2019. The table shows the Amount With- sion against the United States or any of its al- surance Proceeds under Miscellaneous In- held effective December 2018 is $320.00. To lies, but doesn't include training exercises. come, later.) calculate the amount for the tax reduction, mul- Under this limit, the excludable amount for tiply the 2019 Effective Months by the Amount any period is figured by subtracting any reim- Withheld. In this case, January–December Long-Term Care bursement received (through insurance or oth- (2019) is 12 months x $320.00 (Amount With- Insurance Contracts erwise) for the cost of qualified long-term care held) = $3,840.00; this amount should be the services during the period from the larger of the amount claimed as a reduction on Line 1 Adjus- In most cases, long-term care insurance con- following amounts. ted Gross Income (AGI), Column B, of the 2019 tracts are treated as accident and health insur- • The cost of qualified long-term care serv- Form 1040-X. ance contracts. Amounts you receive from them ices during the period. If you receive a lump-sum disability sever- (other than policyholder dividends or premium • The dollar amount for the period ($390 per ance payment and are later awarded VA disa- refunds) are excludable in most cases from in- day for any period in 2022). bility benefits, exclude 100% of the severance come as amounts received for personal injury benefit from your income. However, you must or sickness. To claim an exclusion for payments See Section C of Form 8853 and its instructions include in your income any lump-sum readjust- made on a per diem or other periodic basis un- for more information. ment or other nondisability severance payment der a long-term care insurance contract, you you received on release from active duty, even must file Form 8853 with your return. Workers' Compensation if you're later given a retroactive disability rating by the VA. A long-term care insurance contract is an in- surance contract that only provides coverage Amounts you receive as workers' compensation Special statute of limitations. In most ca- for qualified long-term care services. The con- for an occupational sickness or injury are fully ses, under the statute of limitations a claim for tract must: exempt from tax if they're paid under a workers' credit or refund must be filed within 3 years • Be guaranteed renewable; compensation act or a statute in the nature of a from the time a return was filed. However, if you • Not provide for a cash surrender value or workers' compensation act. The exemption also receive a retroactive service-connected disabil- other money that can be paid, assigned, applies to your survivors. The exemption, how- ity rating determination, the statute of limitations pledged, or borrowed; ever, doesn't apply to retirement plan benefits is extended by a 1-year period beginning on the • Provide that refunds, other than refunds on you receive based on your age, length of serv- date of the determination. This 1-year extended the death of the insured or complete sur- ice, or prior contributions to the plan, even if you period applies to claims for credit or refund filed render or cancellation of the contract, and retired because of an occupational sickness or after June 17, 2008, and doesn't apply to any dividends under the contract may be used injury. Publication 525 (2022) Page 19 |
Page 20 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. If part of your workers' compensation Other compensation. Many other amounts services, such as in Example 23, later, you may ! reduces your social security or equiva- you receive as compensation for sickness or in- have to use another form or schedule instead. CAUTION lent railroad retirement benefits re- jury aren't taxable. These include the following ceived, that part is considered social security amounts. Example 20. You're a self-employed attor- (or equivalent railroad retirement) benefits and • Compensatory damages you receive for ney who performs legal services for a client, a may be taxable. See Pub. 554 and Pub. 915, physical injury or physical sickness, small corporation. The corporation gives you Social Security and Equivalent Railroad Retire- whether paid in a lump sum or in periodic shares of its stock as payment for your serv- ment Benefits, for more information. payments. See Court awards and dam- ices. You must include the FMV of the shares in ages under Other Income, later. your income on Schedule C (Form 1040) in the Return to work. If you return to work after • Benefits you receive under an accident or year you receive them. qualifying for workers' compensation, salary health insurance policy on which either you payments you receive for performing light du- paid the premiums or your employer paid Example 21. You're a self-employed ac- ties are taxable as wages. the premiums but you had to include them countant. You and a house painter are mem- in your income. bers of a barter club. Members contact each Disability pension. If your disability pension is • Disability benefits you receive for loss of other directly and bargain for the value of the paid under a statute that provides benefits only income or earning capacity as a result of services to be performed. In return for account- to employees with service-connected disabili- injuries under a no-fault car insurance pol- ing services you provided, the house painter ties, part of it may be workers' compensation. icy. painted your home. You must report as your in- That part is exempt from tax. The rest of your • Compensation you receive for permanent come on Schedule C (Form 1040) the FMV of pension, based on years of service, is taxable loss or loss of use of a part or function of the house painting services you received. The as pension or annuity income. If you die, the your body, or for your permanent disfigure- house painter must include in income the FMV part of your survivors' benefit that is a continua- ment. This compensation must be based of the accounting services you provided. tion of the workers' compensation is exempt only on the injury and not on the period of from tax. your absence from work. These benefits Example 22. You're self-employed and a aren't taxable even if your employer pays member of a barter club. The club uses credit for the accident and health plan that pro- units as a means of exchange. It adds credit Other Sickness vides these benefits. units to your account for goods or services you and Injury Benefits provide to members, which you can use to pur- Reimbursement for medical care. A reim- chase goods or services offered by other mem- In addition to disability pensions and annuities, bursement for medical care is generally not tax- bers of the barter club. The club subtracts credit you may receive other payments for sickness or able. However, it may reduce your medical ex- units from your account when you receive injury. pense deduction. If you receive reimbursement goods or services from other members. You for an expense you deducted in an earlier year, must include in your income the value of the Railroad sick pay. Payments you receive as see Recoveries, later. credit units that are added to your account, sick pay under the Railroad Unemployment In- If you receive an advance reimbursement or even though you may not actually receive surance Act are taxable and you must include loan for future medical expenses from your em- goods or services from other members until a them in your income. However, don't include ployer without regard to whether you suffered a later tax year. them in your income if they're for an on-the-job personal injury or sickness or incurred medical injury. expenses, that amount is included in your in- Example 23. You own a small apartment come, whether or not you incur uninsured medi- building. In return for 6 months rent-free use of Black lung benefit payments. These pay- cal expenses during the year. an apartment, an artist gives you a work of art ments are similar to workers' compensation and Reimbursements received under your em- she created. You must report as rental income aren't taxable in most cases. ployer's plan for expenses incurred before the on Schedule E (Form 1040) the FMV of the art- plan was established are included in income. work, and the artist must report as income on Federal Employees' Compensation Act Amounts you receive under a reimburse- Schedule C (Form 1040) the fair rental value of (FECA). Payments received under FECA for ment plan that provides for the payment of un- the apartment. personal injury or sickness, including payments used reimbursement amounts in cash or other Form 1099-B from barter exchange. If you to beneficiaries in case of death, aren't taxable. benefits are included in your income. For de- exchanged property or services through a bar- However, you're taxed on amounts you receive tails, see Pub. 969. ter exchange, Form 1099-B or a similar state- under FECA as continuation of pay for up to 45 days while a claim is being decided. Report this ment from the barter exchange should be sent to you by February 15, 2023. It should show the income on line 1a of Form 1040 or 1040-SR. Miscellaneous Income value of cash, property, services, credits, or Also, pay for sick leave while a claim is being scrip you received from exchanges during processed is taxable and must be included in This section discusses various types of income. 2022. The IRS will also receive a copy of Form your income as wages. You may have taxable income from certain 1099-B. If part of the payments you receive un- transactions even if no money changes hands. For example, you may have taxable income if Backup withholding. In most cases, the in- CAUTION or equivalent railroad retirement bene- ! der FECA reduces your social security you lend money at a below-market interest rate come you receive from bartering isn't subject to fits received, that part is considered social se- or have a debt you owe canceled. regular income tax withholding. However, curity (or equivalent railroad retirement) benefits backup withholding will apply in certain circum- and may be taxable. See Pub. 554 for more in- Bartering stances to ensure that income tax is collected formation. on this income. Bartering is an exchange of property or serv- Under backup withholding, the barter ex- Qualified Indian health care benefit. For ices. You must include in your income, at the change must withhold, as income tax, 28% of benefits and coverage provided after March 23, time received, the FMV of property or services the income if: 2010, the value of any qualified Indian health you receive in bartering. If you exchange serv- • You don't give the barter exchange your care benefit isn't taxable. These benefits in- ices with another person and you both have TIN, or clude any health service or benefits provided by agreed ahead of time on the value of the serv- • The IRS notifies the barter exchange that the Indian Health Service, amounts to reim- ices, that value will be accepted as FMV unless you gave it an incorrect TIN. burse medical care expenses provided by an the value can be shown to be otherwise. If you join a barter exchange, you must certify Indian tribe, coverage under accident or health Generally, you report this income on Sched- under penalties of perjury that your TIN is cor- insurance, and any other medical care provided ule C (Form 1040). However, if the barter in- rect and that you aren't subject to backup with- by an Indian tribe. volves an exchange of something other than holding. If you don't make this certification, Page 20 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 21 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. backup withholding may begin immediately. exceeds the FMV of the property, it's income in 2022 due to meeting certain work require- The barter exchange will give you a Form W-9, from discharge of indebtedness unless it quali- ments, you may not have to include the can- or a similar form, for you to make this certifica- fies for exclusion under Excluded debt, later. celed debt in your income. To qualify for this tion. The barter exchange will withhold tax only Report any income from discharge of indebted- work-related exclusion, your loan must have up to the amount of any cash paid to you or de- ness on nonbusiness debt that doesn't qualify been made by a qualified lender to assist you in posited in your account and any scrip or credit for exclusion as other income on Schedule 1 attending an eligible educational organization issued to you (and converted to cash). (Form 1040), line 8c. described in section 170(b)(1)(A)(ii). In addition, the cancellation must be pursuant to a provision If tax is withheld from your barter in- You may be able to exclude part of the in the student loan that all or part of the debt will TIP come, the barter exchange will report TIP mortgage relief on your principal resi- be canceled if you work: the amount of tax withheld on Form dence. See Excluded debt, later. For a certain period of time, 1099-B or similar statement. • If you aren't personally liable for a mortgage • In certain professions, and (nonrecourse debt), and you're relieved of the Canceled Debts mortgage when you dispose of the property • For any of a broad class of employers. (such as through foreclosure), that relief is in- The cancellation of your loan won’t In most cases, if a debt you owe is canceled or cluded in the amount you realize. You may have ! qualify for tax-free treatment if it was forgiven, other than as a gift or bequest, you a taxable gain if the amount you realize ex- CAUTION made by an educational organization must include the canceled amount in your in- ceeds your adjusted basis in the property. Re- or tax-exempt section 501(c)(3) organization come. You have no income from the canceled port any gain on nonbusiness property as a and was canceled because of the services you debt if it's intended as a gift to you. A debt in- capital gain. performed for either organization. See Excep- cludes any indebtedness for which you're liable See Pub. 4681 for more information. tion, later. or which attaches to property you hold. Stockholder debt. If you're a stockholder in a Educational organization described in If the debt is a nonbusiness debt, report the corporation and the corporation cancels or for- section 170(b)(1)(A)(ii). This is an educa- canceled amount on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), gives your debt to it, the canceled debt is a con- tional organization that maintains a regular fac- line 8c. If it's a business debt, report the amount structive distribution that is generally dividend ulty and curriculum and normally has a regularly on Schedule C (Form 1040) or on Schedule F income to you. For more information, see Pub. enrolled body of students in attendance at the (Form 1040) if the debt is farm debt and you're 542. place where it carries on its educational activi- a farmer. If you're a stockholder in a corporation and ties. you cancel a debt owed to you by the corpora- Starting in 2014, you must include the in- tion, you generally don't realize income. This is Qualified lenders. These include the fol- come you elected to defer in 2009 or 2010 from because the canceled debt is considered as a lowing. a cancellation, reacquisition, or modification of contribution to the capital of the corporation 1. The United States, or an instrumentality or a business debt. For information on this elec- equal to the amount of debt principal that you agency thereof. tion, see Revenue Procedure 2009-37, availa- canceled. ble at IRS.gov/irb/2009-36_IRB#RP-2009-37. 2. A state, territory, or possession of the Uni- Repayment of canceled debt. If you inclu- ted States; or the District of Columbia; or Form 1099-C. If a federal government agency, ded a canceled amount in your income and any political subdivision thereof. financial institution, or credit union cancels or later pay the debt, you may be able to file a 3. A public benefit corporation that is tax-ex- forgives a debt you owe of $600 or more, you claim for refund for the year the amount was in- empt under section 501(c)(3); and that may receive a Form 1099-C. Form 1099-C, cluded in income. You can file a claim on Form has assumed control of a state, county, or box 2, shows the amount of debt either actually 1040-X if the statute of limitations for filing a municipal hospital; and whose employees or deemed discharged. If you don't agree with claim is still open. The statute of limitations gen- are considered public employees under the amount reported in box 2, contact your erally doesn't end until 3 years after the due state law. creditor. date of your original return. Interest included in canceled debt. If any 4. An educational organization described in interest is forgiven and included in the amount Exceptions section 170(b)(1)(A)(ii), if the loan is of canceled debt in box 2, the amount of inter- made: est will also be shown in box 3. Whether or not There are several exceptions to the inclusion of a. As part of an agreement with an entity you must include the interest portion of the can- canceled debt in income. These are explained described in (1), (2), or (3) under celed debt in your income depends on whether next. which the funds to make the loan the interest would be deductible if you paid it. were provided to the educational or- See Deductible debt under Exceptions, later. Student loans. Generally, if you are responsi- ganization; or If the interest would not be deductible (such ble for making loan payments, and the loan is as interest on a personal loan), include in your canceled or repaid by someone else, you must b. Under a program of the educational income the amount from box 2 of Form 1099-C. include the amount that was canceled or paid organization that is designed to en- If the interest would be deductible (such as on a on your behalf in your gross income for tax pur- courage its students to serve in occu- business loan), include in your income the net poses. However, in certain circumstances, you pations with unmet needs or in areas amount of the canceled debt (the amount may be able to exclude amounts from gross in- with unmet needs where services pro- shown in box 2 less the interest amount shown come as a result of the cancellation or repay- vided by the students (or former stu- in box 3). ment of certain student loans. These exclusions dents) are for or under the direction of are for: a governmental unit or a tax-exempt Discounted mortgage loan. If your financial • Student loan cancellation due to meeting section 501(c)(3) organization. institution offers a discount for the early pay- certain work requirements; ment of your mortgage loan, the amount of the • Cancellation of certain loans after Decem- Special rule for student loan discharges for discount is canceled debt. You must include the ber 31, 2020, and before January 1, 2026 2021 through 2025. The American Rescue canceled amount in your income. (see Special rule for student loan dis- Plan Act of 2021 modified the treatment of stu- charges for 2021 through 2025); or dent loan forgiveness for discharges in 2021 Mortgage relief upon sale or other disposi- • Certain student loan repayment assistance through 2025. Generally, if you are responsible tion. If you're personally liable for a mortgage programs. for making loan payments, and the loan is can- (recourse debt), and you're relieved of the mort- celed or repaid by someone else, you must in- gage when you dispose of the property, you Exclusion for student loan cancellation due clude the amount that was canceled or paid on may realize gain or loss up to the FMV of the to meeting certain work requirements. If your behalf in your gross income for tax purpo- property. To the extent the mortgage discharge your student loan is canceled in part or in whole ses. However, in certain circumstances you Publication 525 (2022) Page 21 |
Page 22 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. may be able to exclude this amount from gross The cancellation of your loan won’t required of the students are for or under the di- income if the loan was one of the following. ! qualify for tax-free treatment if it is can- rection of a governmental unit or a tax-exempt • A loan for postsecondary educational ex- CAUTION celed because of services you per- section 501(c)(3) organization. penses. formed for the private educational lender that • A private education loan. made the loan or other organization that provi- Student loan repayment assistance. Stu- • A loan from an educational organization ded the funds. dent loan repayments made to you are tax free described in section 170(b)(1)(A)(ii). if you received them for any of the following. • A loan from an organization exempt from Loan from an educational organization de- • The National Health Service Corps tax under section 501(a) to refinance a stu- scribed in section 170(b)(1)(A)(ii). This is (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program. dent loan. any loan made by the organization if the loan is • A state education loan repayment program See Pubs. 4681 and 970 for further details. made: eligible for funds under the Public Health • As part of an agreement with an entity de- Service Act. Loan for postsecondary educational expen- scribed earlier under which the funds to • Any other state loan repayment or loan for- ses. This is any loan provided expressly for make the loan were provided to the educa- giveness program that is intended to pro- postsecondary education, regardless of tional organization; or vide for the increased availability of health whether provided through the educational or- • Under a program of the educational organi- services in underserved or health profes- ganization or directly to the borrower, if such zation that is designed to encourage its sional shortage areas (as determined by loan was made, insured, or guaranteed by one students to serve in occupations with un- such state). of the following. met needs or in areas with unmet needs You can’t deduct the interest you paid • The United States, or an instrumentality or where the services provided by the stu- ! on a student loan to the extent pay- agency thereof. dents (or former students) are for or under CAUTION ments were made through your partici- • A state, territory, or possession of the Uni- the direction of a governmental unit or a pation in any of the above programs. ted States; or the District of Columbia; or tax-exempt section 501(c)(3) organization. any political subdivision thereof. Deductible debt. You don't have income from • An eligible educational organization. Educational organization described in sec- tion 170(b)(1)(A)(ii). This is an educational the cancellation of a debt if your payment of the Eligible educational organization. An eligi- organization that maintains a regular faculty and debt would be deductible. This exception ap- ble educational organization is generally any curriculum and normally has a regularly enrolled plies only if you use the cash method of ac- accredited public, nonprofit, or proprietary (pri- body of students in attendance at the place counting. For more information, see chapter 5 vately owned profit-making) college, university, where it carries on its educational activities. of Pub. 334. vocational school, or other postsecondary edu- Price reduced after purchase. In most ca- cational organization. Also, the organization The cancellation of your loan won’t must be eligible to participate in a student aid ! qualify for tax-free treatment if it was ses, if the seller reduces the amount of debt you program administered by the U.S. Department CAUTION made by an educational organization, a owe for property you purchased, you don't have of Education. tax-exempt section 501(c)(3) organization, or a income from the reduction. The reduction of the private education lender (as defined in section debt is treated as a purchase price adjustment An eligible educational organization also in- 140(a)(7) of the Truth in Lending Act) and was and reduces your basis in the property. cludes certain educational organizations loca- canceled because of the services you per- ted outside the United States that are eligible to formed for either such organization or private Excluded debt. Don’t include a canceled debt participate in a student aid program adminis- education lender. See Exception, later. in your gross income in the following situations. tered by the U.S. Department of Education. • The debt is canceled in a bankruptcy case The educational organization should Section 501(c)(3) organization. This is under title 11 of the U.S. Code. See Pub. TIP be able to tell you if it is an eligible edu- any corporation, community chest, fund, or 908. cational organization. foundation organized and operated exclusively • The debt is canceled when you're insol- for one or more of the following purposes. vent. However, you can't exclude any Private education loan. A private education • Charitable. amount of canceled debt that is more than loan is a loan provided by a private educational • Religious. the amount by which you're insolvent. See lender that: • Educational. Pub. 908. • Is not made, insured, or guaranteed under • Scientific. • The debt is qualified farm debt and is can- Title IV of the Higher Education Act of • Literary. celed by a qualified person. See chapter 3 1965; and • Testing for public safety. of Pub. 225. • Is issued expressly for postsecondary edu- • Fostering national or international amateur • The debt is qualified real property business cational expenses to a borrower, regard- sports competition (but only if none of its debt. See chapter 5 of Pub. 334. less of whether the loan is provided activities involve providing athletic facilities • The cancellation is intended as a gift. through the educational organization that or equipment). • The debt is qualified principal residence in- the student attends or directly to the bor- • The prevention of cruelty to children or ani- debtedness, discussed next. rower from the private educational lender. mals. Qualified principal residence indebted- A private education loan does not include Exception. In most cases, the cancellation ness (QPRI). This is debt secured by your an extension of credit under an open end of a student loan made by an educational or- principal residence that you took out to buy, consumer credit plan, a reverse mortgage ganization because of services you performed build, or substantially improve your principal transaction, a residential mortgage trans- for that organization or another organization residence. QPRI can't be more than the cost of action, or any other loan that is secured by that provided the funds for the loan must be in- your principal residence plus improvements. real property or a dwelling. cluded in gross income on your tax return. You must reduce the basis of your principal residence by the amount excluded from gross Private educational lender. A private educa- Refinanced loan. If you refinanced a stu- income. To claim the exclusion, you must file tional lender is one of the following. dent loan with another loan from an eligible ed- Form 982 with your tax return. • A financial institution that solicits, makes, ucational organization or a tax-exempt organi- or extends private education loans. zation, that loan may also be considered as Principal residence. Your principal resi- • A federal credit union that solicits, makes, made by a qualified lender. The refinanced loan dence is the home where you ordinarily live or extends private education loans. is considered made by a qualified lender if it’s most of the time. You can have only one princi- • Any other person engaged in the business made under a program of the refinancing organ- pal residence at any one time. of soliciting, making, or extending private ization that is designed to encourage students Amount eligible for exclusion. The ex- education loans. to serve in occupations with unmet needs or in clusion applies only to debt discharged after areas with unmet needs where the services Page 22 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 23 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. 2006 and in most cases before 2026. The maxi- amount payable to you at the time of the in- Interest option on insurance. If an insurance mum amount you can treat as QPRI is sured person's death. If the benefit payable at company pays you interest only on proceeds $750,000 ($375,000 if married filing sepa- death isn't specified, you include in your income from life insurance left on deposit, the interest rately). You can't exclude debt canceled be- the benefit payments that are more than the you've paid is taxable. cause of services performed for the lender or on present value of the payments at the time of If your spouse died before October 23, account of any other factor not directly related death. 1986, and you chose to receive only the interest to a decline in the value of your residence or to from your insurance proceeds, the $1,000 inter- your financial condition. Proceeds received in installments. If you est exclusion for a surviving spouse doesn't ap- receive life insurance proceeds in installments, ply. If you later decide to receive the proceeds Limitation. If only part of a loan is QPRI, you can exclude part of each installment from from the policy in installments, you can take the the exclusion applies only to the extent the can- your income. interest exclusion from the time you begin to re- celed amount is more than the amount of the To determine the excluded part, divide the ceive the installments. loan immediately before the cancellation that amount held by the insurance company (gener- isn't QPRI. ally, the total lump sum payable at the death of Surrender of policy for cash. If you surren- the insured person) by the number of install- der a life insurance policy for cash, you must in- Example 24. You file a joint return. Your ments to be paid. Include anything over this ex- clude in income any proceeds that are more principal residence is secured by a debt of cluded part in your income as interest. than the cost of the life insurance policy. In most $900,000, of which $700,000 is QPRI. Your res- cases, your cost (or investment in the contract) idence is sold for $600,000 and $300,000 of Example 25. The face amount of the pol- is the total of premiums that you paid for the life debt is canceled. Only $100,000 of the can- icy is $75,000 and, as beneficiary, you choose insurance policy, less any refunded premiums, celed debt may be excluded from income (the to receive 120 monthly installments of $1,000 rebates, dividends, or unrepaid loans that $300,000 that was discharged minus the each. The excluded part of each installment is weren’t included in your income. $200,000 of nonqualified debt). $625 ($75,000 ÷ 120), or $7,500 for an entire You should receive a Form 1099-R showing year. The rest of each payment, $375 a month the total proceeds and the taxable part. Report Host (or $4,500 for an entire year), is interest income these amounts on lines 5a and 5b of Form 1040 to you. or 1040-SR. If you host a party or event at which sales are made, any gift or gratuity you receive for giving Installments for life. If, as the beneficiary For information on when the proceeds the event is a payment for helping a direct seller under an insurance contract, you're entitled to TIP are excluded from income, see Accel- make sales. You must report this item as in- receive the proceeds in installments for the rest erated Death Benefits, later. come at its FMV. of your life without a refund or period-certain guarantee, you figure the excluded part of each Split-dollar life insurance. In most cases, a Your out-of-pocket party expenses are sub- installment by dividing the amount held by the split-dollar life insurance arrangement is an ar- ject to the 50% limit for meal expenses. For tax insurance company by your life expectancy. If rangement between an owner and a nonowner years beginning after 2017, no deduction is al- there is a refund or period-certain guarantee, of a life insurance contract under which either lowed for any expenses related to activities the amount held by the insurance company for party to the arrangement pays all or part of the generally considered entertainment, amuse- this purpose is reduced by the actuarial value of premiums, and one of the parties paying the ment, or recreation. Taxpayers may continue to the guarantee. premiums is entitled to recover all or part of deduct 50% of the cost of business meals if the those premiums from the proceeds of the con- taxpayer (or an employee of the taxpayer) is Surviving spouse. If your spouse died be- present and the food or beverages aren’t con- fore October 23, 1986, and insurance proceeds tract. There are two mutually exclusive rules to sidered lavish or extravagant. The meals may paid to you because of the death of your tax split-dollar life insurance arrangements. be provided to a current or potential business spouse are received in installments, you can 1. Under the economic benefit rule, the customer, client, consultant, or similar business exclude up to $1,000 a year of the interest in- owner of the life insurance contract is trea- contact. Food and beverages that are provided cluded in the installments. If you remarry, you ted as providing current life insurance pro- during entertainment events won’t be consid- can continue to take the exclusion. tection and other taxable economic bene- fits to the nonowner of the contract. ered entertainment if purchased separately Employer-owned life insurance contract. If from the event. you're the policyholder of an employer-owned 2. Under the loan rule, the nonowner of the Section 210 of the Taxpayer Certainty and life insurance contract, you must include in in- life insurance contract is treated as loan- Disaster Relief Act of 2020 provides for the tem- come any life insurance proceeds received that ing premium payments to the owner of the porary allowance of a 100% business meal de- are more than the premiums and any other contract. duction for food or beverages provided by a amounts you paid on the policy. You're subject Only one of these rules applies to any one pol- restaurant and paid or incurred after December to this rule if you have a trade or business, you icy. For more information, see sections 1.61-22 31, 2020, and before January 1, 2023. own a life insurance contract on the life of your and 1.7872-15 of the regulations. employee, and you (or a related person) are a For more information about the limit for meal beneficiary under the contract. expenses, see 50% Limit in Pub. 463. However, you may exclude the full amount Endowment Contract Proceeds of the life insurance proceeds if the following Life Insurance Proceeds apply. An endowment contract is a policy under which you're paid a specified amount of money on a 1. Before the policy is issued, you provide certain date unless you die before that date, in Life insurance proceeds paid to you because of written notice about the insurance to the which case the money is paid to your designa- the death of the insured person aren't taxable employee and the employee provides writ- ted beneficiary. Endowment proceeds paid in a unless the policy was turned over to you for a ten consent to be insured. lump sum to you at maturity are taxable only if price. This is true even if the proceeds were the proceeds are more than the cost (invest- paid under an accident or health insurance pol- 2. Either: ment in the contract) of the policy. To determine icy or an endowment contract issued on or be- a. The employee was your employee your cost, subtract any amount that you previ- fore December 31, 1984. However, interest in- within the 12-month period before ously received under the contract and excluded come received as a result of life insurance death, or, at the time the contract was from your income from the total premiums (or proceeds may be taxable. issued, was a director or highly com- other consideration) paid for the contract. In- pensated employee; or Proceeds not received in installments. If clude the part of the lump payment that is more death benefits are paid to you in a lump sum or b. The amount is paid to the family or than your cost in your income. other than at regular intervals, include in your designated beneficiary of the em- income only the benefits that are more than the ployee. Publication 525 (2022) Page 23 |
Page 24 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Endowment proceeds that you choose to re- Recoveries Mortgage interest refund. If you received a ceive in installments instead of a lump sum pay- refund or credit in 2022 of mortgage interest ment at the maturity of the policy are taxed as A recovery is a return of an amount you deduc- paid in an earlier year, the amount should be an annuity. This is explained in Pub. 575. For ted or took a credit for in an earlier year. The shown in box 4 of your Form 1098. Don’t sub- this treatment to apply, you must choose to re- most common recoveries are refunds, reim- tract the refund amount from the interest you ceive the proceeds in installments before re- bursements, and rebates of itemized deduc- paid in 2022. You may have to include it in your ceiving any part of the lump sum. This election tions. You may also have recoveries of noni- income under the rules explained in the follow- must be made within 60 days after the temized deductions (such as payments on ing discussions. lump-sum payment first becomes payable to previously deducted bad debts) and recoveries you. of items for which you previously claimed a tax Interest on recovery. Interest on any of the credit. amounts you recover must be reported as inter- Accelerated Death Benefits est income in the year received. For example, Tax benefit rule. You must include a recovery report any interest you received on state or lo- Certain amounts paid as accelerated death in your income in the year you receive it up to cal income tax refunds on Form 1040, benefits under a life insurance contract or viati- the amount by which the deduction or credit you 1040-SR, or 1040-NR, line 2b.. cal settlement before the insured's death are took for the recovered amount reduced your tax excluded from income if the insured is termi- in the earlier year. For this purpose, any in- Recovery and expense in same year. If the nally or chronically ill. crease to an amount carried over to the current refund or other recovery and the expense occur year that resulted from the deduction or credit is in the same year, the recovery reduces the de- Viatical settlement. This is the sale or assign- considered to have reduced your tax in the ear- duction or credit and isn't reported as income. ment of any part of the death benefit under a life lier year. insurance contract to a viatical settlement pro- Recovery for 2 or more years. If you receive vider. A viatical settlement provider is a person Federal income tax refund. Refunds of fed- a refund or other recovery that is for amounts who regularly engages in the business of buy- eral income taxes aren't included in your in- you paid in 2 or more separate years, you must ing or taking assignment of life insurance con- come because they're never allowed as a de- allocate, on a pro rata basis, the recovered tracts on the lives of insured individuals who are duction from income. amount between the years in which you paid it. terminally or chronically ill and who meets the This allocation is necessary to determine the requirements of section 101(g)(2)(B) of the In- State tax refund. If you received a state or lo- amount of recovery from any earlier years and ternal Revenue Code. cal income tax refund (or credit or offset) in to determine the amount, if any, of your allowa- 2022, you must generally include it in income if ble deduction for this item for the current year. Exclusion for terminal illness. Accelerated you deducted the tax in an earlier year. The death benefits are fully excludable if the insured payer should send Form 1099-G to you by Jan- Example 28. You paid 2021 estimated is a terminally ill individual. This is a person who uary 31, 2023. The IRS will also receive a copy state income tax of $4,000 in four equal pay- has been certified by a physician as having an of the Form 1099-G. If you file Form 1040 or ments. You made your fourth payment in Janu- illness or physical condition that can reasonably 1040-SR, use the worksheet in the 2022 In- ary 2022. You had no state income tax withheld be expected to result in death within 24 months structions for Schedule 1 (Form 1040) to figure during 2021. In 2022, you received a $400 tax from the date of the certification. the amount (if any) to include in your income. refund based on your 2021 state income tax re- See Itemized Deduction Recoveries, later, for turn. You claimed itemized deductions each Exclusion for chronic illness. If the insured when you must use Worksheet 2, later in this year on Schedule A (Form 1040). is a chronically ill individual who isn't terminally publication. You must allocate the $400 refund between ill, accelerated death benefits paid on the basis If you could choose to deduct for a tax year 2021 and 2022, the years in which you paid the of costs incurred for qualified long-term care either: tax on which the refund is based. You paid 75% services are fully excludable. Accelerated death • State and local income taxes, or ($3,000 ÷ $4,000) of the estimated tax in 2021, benefits paid on a per diem or other periodic • State and local general sales taxes, then so 75% of the $400 refund, or $300, is for amounts you paid in 2021 and is a recovery basis are excludable up to a limit. For 2022, this the maximum refund that you may have to in- item. If all of the $300 is a taxable recovery limit is $390. It applies to the total of the accel- clude in income is limited to the excess of the item, you'll include $300 on Schedule 1 (Form erated death benefits and any periodic pay- tax you chose to deduct for that year over the 1040), line 1, for 2022, and attach a copy of ments received from long-term care insurance tax you didn't choose to deduct for that year. your calculation showing why that amount is contracts. For information on the limit and the definitions of chronically ill individual, qualified Example 26. For 2021, you can choose a less than the amount shown on the Form long-term care services, and long-term care in- $10,000 state income tax deduction or a $9,000 1099-G you received from the state. surance contracts, see Long-Term Care Insur- state general sales tax deduction. You choose The balance ($100) of the $400 refund is for ance Contracts under Sickness and Injury Ben- to deduct the state income tax. In 2022, you re- your January 2022 estimated tax payment. efits, earlier. ceive a $2,500 state income tax refund. The When you figure your deduction for state and maximum refund that you may have to include local income taxes paid during 2022, you'll re- Exception. The exclusion doesn't apply to any in income is $1,000, because you could have duce the $1,000 paid in January by $100. Your amount paid to a person (other than the in- deducted $9,000 in state general sales tax. deduction for state and local income taxes paid sured) who has an insurable interest in the life during 2022 will include the January net amount of the insured because the insured: Example 27. For 2021, you can choose a of $900 ($1,000 − $100), plus any estimated • Is a director, officer, or employee of the $9,500 state general sales tax deduction based state income taxes paid in 2022 for 2022, and person; or on actual expenses or a $9,200 state income any state income tax withheld during 2022. • Has a financial interest in the person's tax deduction. You choose to deduct the gen- business. eral sales tax deduction. In 2022, you return an Joint state or local income tax return. If you item you had purchased and receive a $500 filed a joint state or local income tax return in an Form 8853. To claim an exclusion for acceler- sales tax refund. In 2022, you also receive a earlier year and you aren't filing a joint Form ated death benefits made on a per diem or $1,500 state income tax refund. The maximum 1040 or 1040-SR with the same person for other periodic basis, you must file Form 8853 refund that you may have to include in income 2022, any refund of a deduction claimed on that with your return. You don't have to file Form is $500, because it's less than the excess of the state or local income tax return must be alloca- 8853 to exclude accelerated death benefits tax deducted ($9,500) over the tax you didn't ted to the person that paid the expense. If both paid on the basis of actual expenses incurred. choose to deduct ($9,200 − $1,500 = $7,700). persons paid a portion of the expense, allocate Because you didn't choose to deduct the state the refund based on your individual portion. For income tax, you don't include the state income example, if you paid 25% of the expense, then tax refund in income. you would use 25% of the refund to figure if you Page 24 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 25 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. must include any portion of the refund in your total credits were more than the amount 5. You weren’t subject to AMT. (If you were income. shown on your 2021 Form 1040, line 18. subject to AMT, see Subject to AMT, Registered domestic partners (RDPs) domi- 9. You could be claimed as a dependent by later.) ciled in community property states. For the someone else in 2021. If any of the earlier statements aren’t true, rules that apply to RDPs who are domiciled in 10. You received a refund because of a jointly see Total recovery not included in income, later. community property states, see Pub. 555 and filed state or local income tax return, but State tax refund. In addition to the previ- Form 8958. you aren't filing a joint 2022 Form 1040 or ous six items, you must include in your income 1040-SR with the same person. the full amount of a refund of state or local in- Deductions not itemized. If you didn't item- come tax or general sales tax if the excess of ize deductions for the year for which you re- If you also recovered an amount de- the tax you deducted over the tax you didn't de- ceived the recovery of an expense that was de- ! ducted as a nonitemized deduction, duct is more than the refund of the tax deduc- ductible only if you itemized, don't include any CAUTION figure the amount of that recovery to in- of the recovery amount in your income. clude in your income and add it to your adjusted ted. gross income (AGI) before applying the rules If the refund is more than the excess, see Example 29. You claimed the standard explained here. See Nonitemized Deduction Total recovery not included in income, later. deduction on your 2021 federal income tax re- Recoveries, later. Where to report. Enter your state or local turn. In 2022, you received a refund of your income tax refund on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), 2021 state income tax. Don’t report any of the Nonresident aliens. If you're a nonresident line 1, and the total of all other recoveries as refund as income because you didn't itemize alien and file Form 1040-NR, you can't claim the other income on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), deductions for 2021. standard deduction. If you recover an itemized line 8z. deduction that you claimed in an earlier year, Itemized Deduction Recoveries you must generally include the full amount of Example 30. For 2021, you filed a joint re- the recovery in your income in the year you re- turn on Form 1040. Your taxable income was The following discussion explains how to deter- ceive it. However, if you had no taxable income $60,000 and you weren’t entitled to any tax mine the amount to include in your income from in that earlier year (see Negative taxable in- credits. Your standard deduction was $25,100, a recovery of an amount deducted in an earlier come, later), you should complete Worksheet 2 and you had itemized deductions of $26,600. In year as an itemized deduction. However, you to determine the amount you must include in in- 2022, you received the following recoveries for generally don't need to use this discussion if come. If any other statement under Total recov- amounts deducted on your 2021 return. you file Form 1040 or 1040-SR and the recov- ery included in income isn't true, see the discus- ery is for state or local income taxes paid in sion referenced in the statement to determine Medical expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $200 2021. Instead, use the State and Local Income the amount to include in income. State and local income tax refund . . . . . . . . . 400 Refund of mortgage interest . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 Tax Refund Worksheet—Schedule 1, Line 1, in Total recoveries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $925 the 2022 Instructions for Schedule 1 (Form Capital gains. If you determined your tax in 1040) for line 1 to figure the amount (if any) to the earlier year by using the Schedule D Tax include in your income. See the Instructions for Worksheet, or the Qualified Dividends and Cap- None of the recoveries were more than the Forms 1040 and 1040-SR. ital Gain Tax Worksheet, and you receive a re- deductions taken for 2021. The difference be- fund in 2022 of a deduction claimed in that year, tween the state and local income tax you de- you'll have to refigure your tax for the earlier ducted and your local general sales tax you You can't use the State and Local Income year to determine if the recovery must be inclu- could have deducted was more than $400. Tax Refund Worksheet—Schedule 1, Line 1, ded in your income. If inclusion of the recovery Your total recoveries are less than the and must use this discussion if you're a nonresi- doesn't change your total tax, you don't include amount by which your itemized deductions ex- dent alien (discussed later) or any of the follow- the recovery in income. However, if your total ceeded the standard deduction ($26,600 − ing statements are true. tax increases by any amount, you must include $25,100 = $1,500), so you must include your to- 1. You received a refund in 2022 that is for a the recovery in your income up to the amount of tal recoveries in your income for 2022. Report tax year other than 2021. the deduction that reduced your tax in the ear- the state and local income tax refund of $400 lier year. on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 1, and the bal- 2. You received a refund other than an in- ance of your recoveries, $525, on Schedule 1 come tax refund, such as a general sales Total recovery included in income. If you (Form 1040), line 8z. tax or real property tax refund, in 2022 of recover any itemized deduction that you an amount deducted or credit claimed in claimed in an earlier year, you must generally Total recovery not included in income. If an earlier year. include the full amount of the recovery in your one or more of the five statements listed earlier 3. The amount on your 2021 Form 1040, income in the year you receive it. This rule ap- under Total recovery included in income isn't line 13, was more than the amount on your plies if, for the earlier year, all of the following true, you may be able to exclude at least part of 2021 Form 1040, line 11 minus line 12c. statements are true. the recovery from your income. See the discus- 4. You had taxable income on your 2021 1. Your itemized deductions exceeded the sion referenced in the statement. You may be Form 1040, line 15, but no tax on your standard deduction by at least the amount able to use Worksheet 2 to determine the part Form 1040, line 16, because of the 0% tax of the recovery. (If your itemized deduc- of your recovery to include in your income. You rate on net capital gains and qualified divi- tions didn't exceed the standard deduction can also use Worksheet 2 to determine the part dends in certain situations. See Capital by at least the amount of the recovery, see of a state tax refund (discussed earlier) to in- gains, later. Standard deduction limit, later.) clude in income. 5. Your 2021 state and local income tax re- 2. You had taxable income. (If you had no Allocating the included part. If you aren't fund is more than your 2021 state and lo- taxable income, see Negative taxable in- required to include all of your recoveries in your cal income tax deduction minus the come, later.) income, and you have both a state income tax refund and other itemized deduction recoveries, amount you could have deducted as your 3. Your deduction for the item recovered you must allocate the taxable recoveries be- 2021 state and local general sales taxes. equals or exceeds the amount recovered. tween the state income tax refund you report on 6. You made your last payment of 2021 esti- (If your deduction was less than the Schedule 1 (Form 1040 or 1040-NR), line 1, mated state or local income tax in 2022. amount recovered, see Recovery limited and the amount you report as other income on to deduction, later.) Schedule 1 (Form 1040 or 1040-NR), line 8z. If 7. You owed AMT in 2021. you don't use Worksheet 2, make the allocation 4. You had no unused tax credits. (If you had 8. You couldn't use the full amount of credits unused tax credits, see Unused tax cred- as follows. you were entitled to in 2021 because the its, later.) Publication 525 (2022) Page 25 |
Page 26 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. 1. Divide your state income tax refund by the the filing status for that prior year. If you filed deducting medical expenses, you deducted total of all your itemized deduction recov- Form 1040-NR, you couldn't claim the standard only $200 as an itemized deduction. In 2022, eries. deduction. you received a $500 reimbursement from your medical insurance for your 2021 expenses. The 2. Multiply the amount of taxable recoveries Example 32. You filed a joint return on only amount of the $500 reimbursement that by the percentage in (1). This is the Form 1040 for 2021 with taxable income of must be included in your income for 2022 is amount you report as a state income tax $45,000. Your itemized deductions were $200, the amount actually deducted. refund. $25,350. The standard deduction that you could 3. Subtract the result in (2) above from the have claimed was $25,100. In 2021, you recov- Overall limitation on itemized deductions amount of taxable recoveries. This is the ered $2,100 of your 2021 itemized deductions. no longer applies. For tax years beginning amount you report as other income. None of the recoveries were more than the ac- after 2017, there is no limitation on itemized de- tual deductions for 2021. Include $250 of the re- ductions based on your AGI. Example 31. In 2022, you recovered coveries in your 2022 income. This is the To determine the part of the recovery you $2,500 of your 2021 itemized deductions smaller of your recoveries ($2,100) or the must include in income, follow the two steps be- claimed on Schedule A (Form 1040), but the re- amount by which your itemized deductions low. coveries you must include in your 2022 income were more than the standard deduction are only $1,500. Of the $2,500 you recovered, ($25,350 − $25,100 = $250). 1. Figure the greater of: $500 was due to your state income tax refund. a. The standard deduction for the earlier Your state income tax was more than your state Negative taxable income. If your taxable in- year, or general sales tax by $600. The amount you re- come for the prior year (Worksheet 2, line 10) port as a state tax refund on Schedule 1 (Form was a negative amount, the recovery you must b. The amount of itemized deductions 1040), line 1, is $300 [($500 ÷ $2,500) × include in income is reduced by that amount. you would have been allowed for the $1,500]. The balance of the taxable recoveries, You have a negative taxable income for 2021 if earlier year if you had figured them $1,200, is reported as other income on Sched- your: using only the net amount of the re- ule 1 (Form 1040), line 8z. • Form 1040, the sum of lines 12c and 13, covery item. The net amount is the was more than line 11; or amount you actually paid reduced by Standard deduction limit. You are generally • Form 1040-NR, line 14, was more than the recovery amount. allowed to claim the standard deduction if you line 11. Note. If you were required to itemize don't itemize your deductions. Only your item- your deductions in the earlier year, use ized deductions that are more than your stand- Example 33. The facts are the same as in step 1b and not step 1a. ard deduction are subject to the recovery rule Example 32, except line 14 was $200 more (unless you're required to itemize your deduc- than line 11 on your 2021 Form 1040, giving 2. Subtract the amount in step 1 from the tions). If your total deductions on the earlier you a negative taxable income of $200. You amount of itemized deductions actually al- year return weren’t more than your income for must include $50 in your 2022 income, rather lowed in the earlier year after applying the that year, include in your income this year the than $250. limit on itemized deductions. lesser of: • Your recoveries, or Recovery limited to deduction. You don't in- The result of step 2 is the amount of the recov- • The amount by which your itemized deduc- clude in your income any amount of your recov- ery to include in your income for the year you tions exceeded the standard deduction. ery that is more than the amount you deducted receive the recovery. If your taxable income for in the earlier year. The amount you include in the earlier year was a negative amount, reduce Standard deduction for earlier years. your income is limited to the smaller of: your recovery by the negative amount. To determine if amounts recovered in the cur- • The amount deducted, or If you had unused tax credits in the earlier rent year must be included in your income, you • The amount recovered. year, see Unused tax credits, later. must know the standard deduction for your filing For more information on this calculation, see status for the year the deduction was claimed. Example 34. For 2021, you paid $1,700 Revenue Ruling 93-75. This ruling is in Cumula- Look in the instructions for your tax return from for medical expenses. Because of the limit on tive Bulletin 1993-2. prior years to locate the standard deduction for Page 26 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 27 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Worksheet 2a. Computations for Worksheet 2, lines 1a and 1b Keep for Your Records To determine amounts to enter on lines 1a and 1b of Worksheet 2, complete the following. 1. Enter the income tax refund from Form(s) 1099-G (or similar statement) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. 2. Enter the refunds received for state and local real estate taxes and state and local personal property taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. 3. Total state and local refunds. Add lines 1 and 2. But don’t enter more than the amount of your state and local taxes shown on your 2021 Schedule A, line 5d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. 4. Is the amount of state and local income taxes (or general sales taxes), real estate taxes, and personal property taxes paid in 2021 (generally, this is the amount reported on your 2021 Schedule A, line 5d), more than the amount on your 2021 Schedule A, line 5e? No. Enter the amount from line 3 on line 4 and go to line 5. Yes. Subtract the amount on your 2021 Schedule A, line 5e, from the amount of state and local income taxes (or general sales taxes), real estate taxes, and personal property taxes paid in 2021 (generally, this is the amount reported on your 2021 Schedule A, line 5d). Enter the result here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. 5. Is the amount on line 3 more than the amount on line 4? No. [STOP] None of the refunds on line 1 or 2 are taxable. Yes. Subtract line 4 from line 3 and enter the result here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. 6. Add lines 1 and 2 and enter the result here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. 7. Divide line 1 by line 6. Then multiply by the amount on line 5 and enter the result here and on Worksheet 2, line 1a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. 8. Divide line 2 by line 6. Then multiply by the amount on line 5 and enter the result here and on Worksheet 2, line 1b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. Publication 525 (2022) Page 27 |
Page 28 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Worksheet 2. Recoveries of Itemized Deductions Keep for Your Records To determine whether you should complete this worksheet to figure the part of a recovery amount to include in income on your 2022 tax return, see Itemized Deduction Recoveries. If you recovered amounts from more than 1 year, such as a state income tax refund from 2021 and a casualty loss reimbursement from 2020, complete a separate worksheet for each year. Use information from your tax return for the year the expense was deducted. A recovery is included in income only to the extent of the deduction amount that reduced your tax in the prior year (year of the deduction). If you were subject to the AMT or your tax credits reduced your tax to zero, see Unused tax credits and Subject to AMT under Itemized Deduction Recoveries. If your recovery was for an itemized deduction that was limited, you should read Itemized deductions limited under Itemized Deduction Recoveries. NOTE: Before completing lines 1a and 1b, see Worksheet 2a, Computations for Worksheet 2, lines 1a and 1b. 1a. State/local income tax refund or credit1a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1a. 1b. State/local real estate and personal property taxes1a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1b. 2. Enter the total of all other Schedule A refunds or reimbursements 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. (excluding the amounts you entered on lines 1a and 1b) 3. Add lines 1a, 1b, and 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. 4. Itemized deductions for the prior year. For 2021: • Form 1040, Schedule A, line 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • Form 1040-NR, Schedule A, line 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. 5. Enter any amount previously refunded to you (don't enter an amount from line 1a or 1b or line 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. 6. Subtract line 5 from line 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. 7. Standard deduction for the prior year. If you filed Form 1040-NR, 3 enter -0- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. 8. Subtract line 7 from line 6. If the result is zero or less, stop here. The amounts on lines 1a, 1b, and 2 aren't taxable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8. 9. Enter the smaller of line 3 or line 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9. 10. Taxable income for prior year (2021 Form 1040, line 15; or 2021 Form 4 1040-NR, line 15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10. 11. Amount to include in income for 2022: • If line 10 is zero or more, enter the amount from line 9. • If line 10 is a negative amount, add lines 9 and 10 and enter the result 5 11. (but not less than zero) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If line 11 equals line 3— Enter the amount from line 1a on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 1. Enter the amounts from lines 1b and 2 on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8z. If line 11 is less than line 3 and either line 1a or 1b or line 2 is zero— If there is an amount on line 1a, enter the amount from line 11 on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 1. If there is an amount on lines 1b and/or 2, enter the amount from line 11 on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8z. If line 11 is less than line 3, and there are amounts on line 1a and on line 1b or 2, complete the following worksheet. A. Divide the amount on line 1a by the amount on line 3. Enter the percentage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. B. Multiply the amount on line 11 by the percentage on line A. Enter the result here and on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. C. Subtract the amount on line B from the amount on line 11. Enter the result here and on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. 1a Don’t enter more than the amount deducted for the prior year. Don’t enter more than the excess of your state and local income tax deduction over your state and local general sales taxes you could have deducted. 2 Don’t enter more than the amount deducted for the prior year. If you deducted state and local general sales taxes and received a refund of those taxes, include the amount on line 2, but don't enter more than the excess of your sales tax deduction over your state and local income tax you could have deducted. 3 See the instructions for prior year forms at IRS.gov for prior year standard deduction. 4 If taxable income is a negative amount, enter that amount in brackets. Don’t enter zero unless your taxable income is exactly zero. See Negative taxable income. Taxable income will have to be adjusted for any net operating loss carryover. For more information, see Pub. 536. 5 For example, $700 + ($400) = $300. Unused tax credits. If you recover an item de- amount of the recovery to your earlier year's covery in your income up to the amount of the ducted in an earlier year in which you had un- taxable income and refigure the tax and the deduction that reduced the tax in the earlier used tax credits, you must refigure the earlier credits on the refigured amount. If the refigured year. For this purpose, any increase to a credit year's tax to determine if you must include the tax, after application of the credits, is more than carried over to the current year that resulted recovery in your income. To do this, add the the actual tax in the earlier year, include the re- from deducting the recovered amount in the Page 28 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 29 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. earlier year is considered to have reduced your If you had a net operating loss (NOL) in a prior explain the tax treatment of certain payments tax in the earlier year. If the recovery is for an year, you'll have to adjust your taxable income made to survivors. For additional information, itemized deduction claimed in a year in which for any NOL carryover. See Pub. 536 for more see Pub. 559. the deductions were limited, see Itemized de- information. ductions limited, earlier. Lump-sum payments. Lump-sum payments If your tax, after application of the credits, Unused tax credits. If you recover an item de- you receive from a decedent's employer as the doesn't change, you didn't have a tax benefit ducted in an earlier year in which you had un- surviving spouse or beneficiary may be accrued from the deduction. Don’t include the recovery used tax credits, you must refigure the earlier salary payments; distributions from employee in your income. year's tax to determine if you must include the profit-sharing, pension, annuity, or stock bonus recovery in your income. To do this, add the plans; or other items that should be treated sep- Example 35. In 2021, you filed as head of amount of the recovery to your earlier year's arately for tax purposes. The tax treatment of household and itemized your deductions on taxable income and refigure the tax and the these lump-sum payments depends on the type Schedule A (Form 1040). Your taxable income credits on the refigured amount. If the refigured of payment. was $5,260 and your tax was $528. You tax, after application of the credits, is more than claimed a child care credit of $1,200. The credit the actual tax in the earlier year, include the re- Salary or wages. Salary or wages re- reduced your tax to zero, and you had an un- covery in your income up to the amount of the ceived after the death of the employee are usu- used tax credit of $672 ($1,200 − $528). In deduction that reduced the tax in the earlier ally ordinary income to you. 2022, you recovered $1,000 of your itemized year. For this purpose, any increase to a credit Qualified employee retirement plans. deductions. You reduce your 2021 itemized de- carried over to the current year that resulted Lump-sum distributions from qualified em- ductions by $1,000 and refigure that year's tax from deducting the recovered amount in the ployee retirement plans are subject to special on taxable income of $6,260. However, the earlier year is considered to have reduced your tax treatment. For information on these distribu- child care credit exceeds the refigured tax of tax in the earlier year. tions, see Pub. 575 (or Pub. 721 if you're the $628. Your tax liability for 2021 isn't changed by If your tax, after application of the credits, survivor of a federal employee or retiree). reducing your deductions by the recovery. You doesn't change, you didn't have a tax benefit didn't have a tax benefit from the recovered de- from the deduction. Don’t include the recovery Public safety officer killed in the line of duction and don’t include any of the recovery in in your income. duty. If you're a survivor of a public safety offi- your income for 2022. cer who was killed in the line of duty, you can Capital gains. If you determined your tax in exclude from income any amount received as a Subject to AMT. If you were subject to the the earlier year by using the Schedule D Tax survivor annuity on account of the death of a AMT in the year of the deduction, you'll have to Worksheet, or the Qualified Dividends and Cap- public safety officer killed in the line of duty. refigure your tax for the earlier year to deter- ital Gain Tax Worksheet, and you receive a re- For this purpose, the term “public safety offi- mine if the recovery must be included in your in- fund in 2022 of a deduction claimed in that year, cer” includes law enforcement officers, firefight- come. This will require a refiguring of your regu- you'll have to refigure your tax for the earlier ers, chaplains, and rescue squad and ambu- lar tax, as shown in Example 35, and a year to determine if the recovery must be inclu- lance crew members. For more information, see refiguring of your AMT. If inclusion of the recov- ded in your income. If inclusion of the recovery Pub. 559. ery doesn't change your total tax, you don't in- doesn't change your total tax, you don't include clude the recovery in your income. However, if the recovery in income. However, if your total your total tax increases by any amount, you re- tax increases by any amount, you must include Unemployment Benefits ceived a tax benefit from the deduction and you the recovery in your income up to the amount of must include the recovery in your income up to the deduction that reduced your tax in the ear- The tax treatment of unemployment benefits the amount of the deduction that reduced your lier year. you receive depends on the type of program tax in the earlier year. paying the benefits. Amounts Recovered for Credits Unemployment compensation. Generally, Nonitemized Deduction you must include in income all unemployment Recoveries If you received a recovery in 2022 for an item compensation you receive. You should receive for which you claimed a tax credit in an earlier a Form 1099-G showing in box 1 the total un- This section discusses recovery of deductions year, you must increase your 2021 tax by the employment compensation paid to you. In most other than itemized deductions. amount of the recovery, up to the amount by cases, you enter unemployment compensation which the credit reduced your tax in the earlier on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 7. Total recovery included in income. If you year. You had a recovery if there was a down- recover an amount that you deducted in an ear- ward price adjustment or similar adjustment on If you received unemployment com- lier year when you were figuring your AGI, you the item for which you claimed a credit. ! pensation but didn't receive Form must generally include the full amount of the re- CAUTION 1099-G, Certain Government Pay- covery in your income in the year received. This rule doesn't apply to the investment ments, through the mail, you may need to ac- credit or the foreign tax credit. Recoveries of cess your information through your state’s web- Total recovery not included in income. If these credits are covered by other provisions of site to get your electronic Form 1099-G. any part of the deduction you took for the recov- the law. See Pub. 514 or Form 4255 for details. ered amount didn't reduce your tax, you may be Types of unemployment compensation. able to exclude at least part of the recovery Unemployment compensation generally in- from your income. You must include the recov- Sharing/Gig Economy cludes any amount received under an unem- ery in your income only up to the amount of the ployment compensation law of the United deduction that reduced your tax in the year of Generally, if you work in the gig economy or did the deduction. (See Tax benefit rule, earlier.) gig work, you must include all income received States or of a state. It includes the following from all jobs whether you received a Form benefits. Negative taxable income. If your taxable in- 1099-K, Payment Card and Third-Party Net- • Benefits paid by a state or the District of come for the prior year was a negative amount, work Transactions, or not. See the Instructions Columbia from the Federal Unemployment the recovery you must include in income is re- for Schedule C (Form 1040) and the Instruc- Trust Fund. duced by that amount. You have a negative tax- tions for Schedule SE (Form 1040). • State unemployment insurance benefits. • Railroad unemployment compensation able income for 2021 if your: benefits. • Form 1040, the sum of lines 12c and 13, Survivor Benefits • Disability payments from a government was more than line 11; or program paid as a substitute for unemploy- • Form 1040-NR, line 14, was more than In most cases, payments made by or for an em- ment compensation. (Amounts received as line 11. ployer because of an employee's death must be workers' compensation for injuries or ill- included in income. The following discussions ness aren't unemployment compensation. Publication 525 (2022) Page 29 |
Page 30 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. See Workers' Compensation under Sick- able to take a credit against your tax for the later Persons with disabilities. If you have a disa- ness and Injury Benefits, earlier.) year instead of deducting the amount repaid. bility, you must include in income compensation • Trade readjustment allowances under the For information on this, see Repayments, later. you receive for services you perform unless the Trade Act of 1974. compensation is otherwise excluded. However, • Unemployment assistance under the Dis- Private unemployment fund. Unemployment you don't include in income the value of goods, aster Relief and Emergency Assistance benefit payments from a private (nonunion) services, and cash that you receive, not in re- Act of 1974. fund to which you voluntarily contribute are tax- turn for your services, but for your training and • Unemployment assistance under the Air- able only if the amounts you receive are more rehabilitation because you have a disability. Ex- line Deregulation Act of 1978 Program. than your total payments into the fund. Report cludable amounts include payments for trans- the taxable amount on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), portation and attendant care, such as inter- Governmental program. If you contribute line 8z. preter services for the deaf, reader services for to a governmental unemployment compensa- the blind, and services to help individuals with tion program and your contributions aren't de- Payments by a union. Benefits paid to you as an intellectual disability do their work. ductible, amounts you receive under the pro- an unemployed member of a union from regular gram aren't included as unemployment union dues are included in your income on Disaster relief grants. Don’t include post-dis- compensation until you recover your contribu- Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8z. However, if aster grants received under the Disaster Relief tions. If you deducted all of your contributions to you contribute to a special union fund and your and Emergency Assistance Act in your income the program, the entire amount you receive un- payments to the fund aren't deductible, the un- if the grant payments are made to help you der the program is included in your income. employment benefits you receive from the fund meet necessary expenses or serious needs for Repayment of unemployment compen- are includible in your income only to the extent medical, dental, housing, personal property, sation. If you repaid in 2022 unemployment they're more than your contributions. transportation, or funeral expenses. Don’t de- compensation you received in 2022, subtract duct casualty losses or medical expenses that the amount you repaid from the total amount Guaranteed annual wage. Payments you re- are specifically reimbursed by these disaster re- you received and enter the difference on ceive from your employer during periods of un- lief grants. If you have deducted a casualty loss Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 7. On the dotted employment, under a union agreement that for the loss of your personal residence and you line next to your entry, enter “Repaid” and the guarantees you full pay during the year, are tax- later receive a disaster relief grant for the loss of amount you repaid. If you repaid unemployment able as wages. Include them on line 1a of Form the same residence, you may have to include compensation in 2022 that you included in your 1040 or 1040-SR. part or all of the grant in your taxable income. income in an earlier year, you can deduct the See Recoveries, earlier. Unemployment assis- amount repaid on Schedule A (Form 1040), State employees. Payments similar to a tance payments under the Act are taxable un- line 16, if you itemize deductions and if the state's unemployment compensation may be employment compensation. See Unemploy- amount is more than $3,000. See Repayments, made by the state to its employees who aren't ment compensation under Unemployment later. covered by the state's unemployment compen- Benefits, earlier. sation law. Although the payments are fully tax- Tax withholding. You can choose to have able, don't report them as unemployment com- Disaster relief payments. You can exclude federal income tax withheld from your unem- pensation. Report these payments on Schedule from income any amount you receive that is a ployment compensation. To make this choice, 1 (Form 1040), line 8z. qualified disaster relief payment. A qualified dis- complete Form W-4V and give it to the paying aster relief payment is an amount paid to you: office. Tax will be withheld at 10% of your pay- Welfare and Other 1. To reimburse or pay reasonable and nec- ment. essary personal, family, living, or funeral Public Assistance Benefits If you don't choose to have tax withheld expenses that result from a qualified dis- ! from your unemployment compensa- Don’t include in your income governmental ben- aster; CAUTION tion, you may be liable for estimated efit payments from a public welfare fund based 2. To reimburse or pay reasonable and nec- tax. If you don't pay enough tax, either through upon need, such as payments due to blindness. essary expenses incurred for the repair or withholding or estimated tax, or a combination Payments from a state fund for the victims of rehabilitation of your home or repair or re- of both, you may have to pay a penalty. For crime shouldn't be included in the victims' in- placement of its contents to the extent it’s more information, see Pub. 505. comes if they're in the nature of welfare pay- due to a qualified disaster; ments. Don’t deduct medical expenses that are Supplemental unemployment benefits. reimbursed by such a fund. You must include in 3. By a person engaged in the furnishing or Benefits received from an employer-financed your income any welfare payments that are sale of transportation as a common carrier fund (to which the employees didn't contribute) compensation for services or that are obtained because of the death or personal physical aren't unemployment compensation. They're fraudulently. injuries incurred as a result of a qualified taxable as wages and are subject to withholding disaster; or for income tax. They may be subject to social Work-training program. Payments you re- 4. By a federal, state, or local government, or security and Medicare taxes. For more informa- ceive from a state welfare agency for taking part agency or instrumentality in connection tion, see Supplemental Unemployment Benefits in a work-training program aren't included in with a qualified disaster in order to pro- in section 5 of Pub. 15-A. Report these pay- your income, as long as the payments (exclu- mote the general welfare. ments on line 1a of Form 1040 or 1040-SR. sive of extra allowances for transportation or other costs) don't total more than the public wel- You can exclude this amount only to the extent Repayment of benefits. You may have to fare benefits you would have received other- any expense it pays for isn't paid for by insur- repay some of your supplemental unemploy- wise. If the payments are more than the welfare ance or otherwise. The exclusion doesn't apply ment benefits to qualify for trade readjustment benefits you would have received, the entire if you were a participant or conspirator in a ter- allowances under the Trade Act of 1974. If you amount must be included in your income as wa- rorist action or a representative of one. repay supplemental unemployment benefits in ges. A qualified disaster is: the same year you receive them, reduce the to- • A disaster that results from a terrorist or tal benefits by the amount you repay. If you re- Reemployment Trade Adjustment Assis- pay the benefits in a later year, you must in- tance (RTAA) payments. Payments you re- military action; clude the full amount of the benefits in your ceive from a state agency under the RTAA must • A federally declared disaster; or income for the year you received them. be included in your income. The state must • A disaster that results from an accident in- Deduct the repayment in the later year as an send you Form 1099-G to advise you of the volving a common carrier, or from any adjustment to gross income on Form 1040 or amount you should include in income. The other event, which is determined to be 1040-SR. Include the repayment on Schedule 1 amount should be reported on Schedule 1 catastrophic by the Secretary of the Treas- (Form 1040), line 24e. If the amount you repay (Form 1040), line 8z. ury or his or her delegate. in a later year is more than $3,000, you may be Page 30 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 31 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. For amounts paid under item 4, a disaster is form Relocation Assistance and Real Property Social security benefits (including qualified if it's determined by an applicable fed- Acquisition Policies Act for Federal and Feder- lump-sum payments attributable to prior eral, state, or local authority to warrant assis- ally Assisted Programs aren't includible in gross years), Supplemental Security Income (SSI) tance from the federal, state, or local govern- income, but are includible in the basis of the benefits, and lump-sum death benefits. ment, agency, or instrumentality. newly acquired property. The Social Security Administration (SSA) pro- vides benefits such as old-age benefits, bene- Disaster mitigation payments. You can Relocation payments and home rehabilita- fits to disabled workers, and benefits to spou- also exclude from income any amount you re- tion grants. A relocation payment under sec- ses and dependents. These benefits may be ceive that is a qualified disaster mitigation pay- tion 105(a)(11) of the Housing and Community subject to federal income tax depending on ment. Qualified disaster mitigation payments Development Act made by a local jurisdiction to your filing status and other income. See Pub. are commonly paid to you in the period immedi- a displaced individual moving from a flood-dam- 915 for more information. An individual origi- ately following damage to property as a result of aged residence to another residence isn't in- nally denied benefits, but later approved, may a natural disaster. However, disaster mitigation cludible in gross income. Home rehabilitation receive a lump-sum payment for the period payments are used to mitigate (reduce the se- grants received by low-income homeowners in when benefits were denied (which may be prior verity of) potential damage from future natural a defined area under the same Act are also not years). See Pub. 915 for information on how to disasters. They're paid to you through state and includible in gross income. make a lump-sum election, which may reduce local governments based on the provisions of your tax liability. There are also other types of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Indian financing grants. Nonreimbursable benefits paid by the SSA. However, SSI bene- Emergency Assistance Act or the National grants under title IV of the Indian Financing Act fits and lump-sum death benefits (one-time pay- Flood Insurance Act. of 1974 to Indians to expand profit-making In- ment to spouse and children of deceased) You can't increase the basis or adjusted ba- dian-owned economic enterprises on or near aren't subject to federal income tax. For more sis of your property for improvements made reservations aren't includible in gross income. information on these benefits, go to SSA.gov. with nontaxable disaster mitigation payments. Indian general welfare benefit. Gross in- Form SSA-1099. If you received social se- Home Affordable Modification Program come doesn't include the value of any Indian curity benefits during the year, you'll receive (HAMP). If you benefit from Pay-for-Perform- general welfare benefit. “Indian general welfare Form SSA-1099, Social Security Benefit State- ance Success Payments under HAMP, the pay- benefit” includes any payment made or services ment. An IRS Notice 703 will be enclosed with ments aren't taxable. provided to or on behalf of a member (or any your Form SSA-1099. This notice includes a spouse or dependent of that member) of an In- worksheet you can use to figure whether any of Hardest Hit Fund and Emergency Home- dian tribe or Alaska Native Corporation under your benefits are taxable. owners' Loan Program. If you receive or ben- an Indian tribal government program, but only if: For an explanation of the information found efit from payments made under: on your Form SSA-1099, see Pub. 915. • A State Housing Finance agency (State 1. The program is administered under speci- HFA) Hardest Hit Fund program in which fied guidelines and doesn't discriminate in Form RRB-1099. If you received equiva- program payments can be used to pay favor of members of the governing body of lent railroad retirement or special guaranty ben- mortgage interest, or the Indian tribe or Alaska Native Corpora- efits during the year, you'll receive Form • An Emergency Homeowners' Loan Pro- tion; and RRB-1099, Payments by the Railroad Retire- ment Board. gram (EHLP) administered by the Depart- 2. The benefits provided under the program For an explanation of the information found ment of Housing and Urban Development (a) are available to any tribal member who on your Form RRB-1099, see Pub. 915. (HUD) or a state, meets guidelines, (b) are for the promotion • The Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) of general welfare, (c) aren't lavish or ex- Joint return. If you're married and file a program in which program payments are travagant, and (d) aren't compensation for joint return, you and your spouse must combine used to provide financial assistance to eli- services. your incomes and your social security and gible homeowners for purposes of paying equivalent railroad retirement benefits when fig- certain expenses related to their principal Generally, any items of cultural significance, uring whether any of your combined benefits residence to prevent mortgage delinquen- reimbursement of costs, or cash honorarium for are taxable. Even if your spouse didn't receive cies, defaults, foreclosures, loss of utilities participation in cultural or ceremonial activities any benefits, you must add your spouse's in- or home energy services, and also dis- for the transmission of tribal culture aren't trea- come to yours when figuring if any of your bene- placements of homeowners experiencing ted as compensation for services. fits are taxable. financial hardship after January 21, 2020, the payments aren't included in gross income Note. The above exclusion was enacted by Taxable amount. Use the worksheet in and aren't taxable. the Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act of the Forms 1040 and 1040-SR instruction pack- 2014, September 26, 2014. The exclusion ap- age to determine the amount of your benefits to For more details about the HAF program, go plies to tax years for which the period of limita- include in your income. Pub. 915 also has work- to Home.Treasury.gov/Policy-Issues/ tion on refund or credit under section 6511 has sheets you can use. However, you must use the Coronavirus/Assistance-for-State-Local-and- not expired (generally, within 3 years from the worksheets in Pub. 915 if any of the following Tribal-Governments/Homeowner-Assistance- time the return was filed or 2 years from the situations apply. Fund. time the tax was paid, whichever expires later). • You received a lump-sum benefit payment If you are a tribal member and wish more Additionally, a claim for the above exclusion will during the year that is for one or more ear- details about the HAF program, go to IRS.gov/ be allowed if made within 1 year of the enact- lier years. Newsroom/FAQs-for-Payments-by-Indian- ment of the exclusion. • You exclude employer-provided adoption Tribal-Governments-and-Alaska-Native- benefits or interest from qualified U.S. sav- Corporations-to-Individuals-Under-Covid- Note. The enactment of the above exclusion ings bonds. Relief-Legislation. generally codifies the exclusion afforded under • You take the foreign earned income exclu- Revenue Procedure 2014-35, June 4, 2014. sion, the foreign housing exclusion or de- Mortgage assistance payments under sec- See Revenue Procedure 2014-35 for more de- duction, the exclusion of income from tion 235 of the National Housing Act. Pay- tails. American Samoa, or the exclusion of in- ments made under section 235 of the National come from Puerto Rico by bona fide resi- Housing Act for mortgage assistance aren't in- Medicare. Medicare benefits received under ti- dents of Puerto Rico. cluded in the homeowner's income. Interest tle XVIII of the Social Security Act aren't includi- paid for the homeowner under the mortgage as- ble in the gross income of the individuals for sistance program can't be deducted. whom they're paid. This includes basic (Part A (Hospital Insurance Benefits for the Aged)) and Replacement housing payments. Replace- supplementary (Part B (Supplementary Medical ment housing payments made under the Uni- Insurance Benefits for the Aged)). Publication 525 (2022) Page 31 |
Page 32 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Benefits may affect your IRA deduction. Don’t include alimony payments you Carpools. Don’t include in your income You must use the special worksheets in Appen- ! receive under a divorce or separation amounts you receive from the passengers for dix B of Pub. 590-A to figure your taxable bene- CAUTION agreement (1) executed after 2018, or driving a car in a carpool to and from work. fits and your IRA deduction if all of the following (2) executed before 2019 but later modified if These amounts are considered reimbursement conditions apply. the modification expressly states the repeal of for your expenses. However, this rule doesn't • You receive social security or equivalent the deduction for alimony payments applies to apply if you have developed carpool arrange- railroad retirement benefits. the modification. ments into a profit-making business of trans- • You have taxable compensation. porting workers for hire. • You contribute to your IRA. Below-market loans. A below-market loan is • You or your spouse is covered by a retire- a loan on which no interest is charged or on Cash rebates. A cash rebate you receive from ment plan at work. which the interest is charged at a rate below the a dealer or manufacturer of an item you buy How to report. If any of your benefits are applicable federal rate. If you make a be- isn't income, but you must reduce your basis by taxable, you must use Form 1040 or 1040-SR to low-market gift or demand loan, you must in- the amount of the rebate. report the taxable part. Report your net benefits clude the forgone interest (at the federal rate) (as shown on your Forms SSA-1099 and as interest income on your return. These loans Example 36. You buy a new car for RRB-1099) on line 6a of Form 1040 or are considered a transaction in which you, the $24,000 cash and receive a $2,000 rebate 1040-SR. Report the taxable part on line 6b of lender, are treated as having made: check from the manufacturer. The $2,000 isn't Form 1040 or 1040-SR. If you elect to use the • A loan to the borrower in exchange for a income to you. Your basis in the car is $22,000. lump-sum election method, check the box on note that requires the payment of interest This is the basis on which you figure gain or line 6c of Form 1040 or 1040-SR and see the at the applicable federal rate; and loss if you sell the car, and figure depreciation if instructions. • An additional payment to the borrower, you use it for business. which the borrower transfers back to you Casualty insurance and other reimburse- Nutrition Program for the Elderly. Food ben- as interest. ments. You generally shouldn't report these re- efits you receive under the Nutrition Program for Depending on the transaction, the additional imbursements on your return unless you're fig- the Elderly aren't taxable. If you prepare and payment to the borrower is treated as a: uring gain or loss from the casualty or theft. See serve free meals for the program, include in • Gift, Pub. 547. your income as wages the cash pay you re- • Dividend, ceive, even if you're also eligible for food bene- • Contribution to capital, Charitable gift annuities. If you're the benefi- fits. • Payment of compensation, or ciary of a charitable gift annuity, you must in- • Another type of payment. clude the yearly annuity or fixed percentage Payments to reduce cost of winter energy. payment in your income. Payments made by a state to qualified people The borrower may have to report this payment to reduce their cost of winter energy use aren't as income, depending on its classification. The payer will report the types of income taxable. For more information on below-market you received on Form 1099-R. Report the gross loans, see chapter 1 of Pub. 550. distribution from box 1 on Form 1040 or 1040-SR, line 5a, and the part taxed as ordinary Other Income Bribes. If you receive a bribe, include it in your income (box 2a minus box 3) on Form 1040 or income. 1040-SR, line 5b. Report the portion taxed as The following brief discussions are arranged in capital gain as explained in the Instructions for alphabetical order. Other income items briefly Campaign contributions. These contribu- Schedule D (Form 1040). discussed below are referenced to publications tions aren't income to a candidate unless that provide more information. they're diverted to the candidate’s personal use. Child support payments. You shouldn't re- To be exempt from tax, the contributions must port these payments on your return. See Pub. Activity not for profit. You must include on be spent for campaign purposes or kept in a 504 for more information. your return income from an activity from which fund for use in future campaigns. However, in- you don't expect to make a profit. An example terest earned on bank deposits, dividends re- Court awards and damages. To determine if of this type of activity is a hobby or a farm you ceived on contributed securities, and net gains settlement amounts you receive by compromise operate mostly for recreation and pleasure. En- realized on sales of contributed securities are or judgment must be included in your income, ter this income on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), taxable and must be reported on Form you must consider the item that the settlement line 8j. Deductions for expenses related to the 1120-POL. Excess campaign funds transferred replaces. The character of the income as ordi- activity are limited. They can't total more than to an office account must be included in the of- nary income or capital gain depends on the na- the income you report and can be taken only if ficeholder's income on Schedule 1 (Form ture of the underlying claim. Include the follow- you itemize deductions on Schedule A (Form 1040), line 8z, in the year transferred. ing as ordinary income. 1040). See Not-for-Profit Activities in chapter 1 1. Interest on any award. of Pub. 535 for information on whether an activ- Canceled sales contract. If you sell property ity is considered carried on for a profit. (such as land or a residence) under a contract, 2. Compensation for lost wages or lost profits but the contract is canceled and you return the in most cases. Alaska Permanent Fund dividend. If you re- buyer's money in the same tax year as the origi- 3. Punitive damages in most cases. It doesn't ceived a payment from Alaska's mineral income nal sale, you have no income from the sale. If matter if they relate to a physical injury or fund (Alaska Permanent Fund dividend), report the contract is canceled and you return the buy- physical sickness. it as income on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), er's money in a later tax year, you must include line 8g. The state of Alaska sends each recipi- your gain in your income for the year of the sale. 4. Amounts received in settlement of pension ent a document that shows the amount of the When you return the money and take back the rights (if you didn't contribute to the plan). payment with the check. The amount is also re- property in the later year, you treat the transac- 5. Damages for: ported to the IRS. tion as a purchase that gives you a new basis in the property equal to the funds you return to the a. Patent or copyright infringement, Alimony. Include in your income on Schedule buyer. b. Breach of contract, or 1 (Form 1040), line 2a, any taxable alimony Special rules apply to the reacquisition of payments you receive. Amounts you receive for real property where a secured indebtedness c. Interference with business operations. child support aren't income to you. For com- (mortgage) to the original seller is involved. For 6. Back pay and damages for emotional dis- plete information, see Pub. 504 and the Instruc- further information, see Repossession in Pub. tress received to satisfy a claim under title tions for Forms 1040 and 1040-SR. 537. VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Page 32 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 33 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. 7. Attorney fees and costs (including contin- Down payment assistance. If you purchase Losses. Losses of estates and trusts gen- gent fees) where the underlying recovery a home and receive assistance from a nonprofit erally aren't deductible by the beneficiaries. is included in gross income. corporation to make the down payment, that as- 8. Attorney fees and costs relating to whistle- sistance isn't included in your income. If the cor- Grantor trust. Income earned by a grantor blower awards where the underlying re- poration qualifies as a tax-exempt charitable or- trust is taxable to the grantor, not the benefi- covery is included in gross income. ganization, the assistance is treated as a gift ciary, if the grantor keeps certain control over and is included in your basis of the house. If the the trust. (The grantor is the one who transfer- Don’t include in your income compensatory corporation doesn't qualify, the assistance is red property to the trust.) This rule applies if the damages for personal physical injury or physi- treated as a rebate or reduction of the purchase property (or income from the property) put into cal sickness (whether received in a lump sum or price and isn't included in your basis. the trust will or may revert (be returned) to the installments). grantor or the grantor's spouse. Employment agency fees. If you get a job Generally, a trust is a grantor trust if the Emotional distress. Emotional distress it- through an employment agency, and the fee is grantor has a reversionary interest valued (at self isn't a physical injury or physical sickness, paid by your employer, the fee isn't includible in the date of transfer) at more than 5% of the but damages you receive for emotional distress your income if you aren't liable for it. However, if value of the transferred property, or has certain due to a physical injury or sickness are treated you pay it and your employer reimburses you other powers. as received for the physical injury or sickness. for it, it’s includible in your income. Don’t include them in your income. Expenses paid by another. If your personal If the emotional distress is due to a personal Energy conservation subsidies. You can ex- expenses are paid for by another person, such injury that isn't due to a physical injury or sick- clude from gross income any subsidy provided, as a corporation, the payment may be taxable ness (for example, unlawful discrimination or in- either directly or indirectly, by public utilities for to you depending upon your relationship with jury to reputation), you must include the dam- the purchase or installation of an energy con- that person and the nature of the payment. But ages in your income, except for any damages servation measure for a dwelling unit. if the payment makes up for a loss caused by you receive for medical care due to that emo- that person, and only restores you to the posi- tional distress. Emotional distress includes Energy conservation measure. This in- tion you were in before the loss, the payment physical symptoms that result from emotional cludes installations or modifications that are pri- isn't includible in your income. distress, such as headaches, insomnia, and marily designed to reduce consumption of elec- stomach disorders. tricity or natural gas, or improve the Exxon Valdez settlement income. Include in management of energy demand. your income on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), Deduction for costs involved in unlawful line 8z, any qualified settlement income you re- discrimination suits. You may be able to de- Dwelling unit. This includes a house, ceive as a qualified taxpayer. See Statement, duct attorney fees and court costs paid to re- apartment, condominium, mobile home, boat, later. Qualified settlement income is any inter- cover a judgment or settlement for a claim of or similar property. If a building or structure con- est and punitive damage awards that are: unlawful discrimination under various provisions tains both dwelling and other units, any subsidy • Otherwise includible in taxable income, of federal, state, and local law listed in section must be properly allocated. and 62(e), a claim against the U.S. Government, or • Received in connection with the civil action a claim under section 1862(b)(3)(A) of the So- Estate and trust income. An estate or trust, In re Exxon Valdez, No. 89-095-CV (HRH) cial Security Act. You can claim this deduction unlike a partnership, may have to pay federal in- (Consolidated) (D. Alaska). as an adjustment to income on Schedule 1 come tax. If you're a beneficiary of an estate or (Form 1040), line 24h. The following rules ap- trust, you may be taxed on your share of its in- You're a qualified taxpayer if you were a ply. come distributed or required to be distributed to plaintiff in the civil action mentioned earlier or • The attorney fees and court costs may be you. However, there is never a double tax. Es- you were a beneficiary of the estate of your paid by you or on your behalf in connection tates and trusts file their returns on Form 1041, spouse or a close relative who was such a with the claim for unlawful discrimination, and your share of the income is reported to you plaintiff and from whom you acquired the right the claim against the U.S. Government, or on Schedule K-1 (Form 1041). to receive qualified settlement income. The income can be received as a lump sum the claim under section 1862(b)(3)(A) of Current income required to be distrib- or as periodic payments. You'll receive a Form the Social Security Act. uted. If you're the beneficiary of an estate or 1099-MISC showing the gross amount of the • The deduction you're claiming can't be trust that must distribute all of its current in- settlement income paid to you in the tax year. more than the amount of the judgment or come, you must report your share of the distrib- settlement you're including in income for utable net income, whether or not you actually Contributions to eligible retirement plan. the tax year. received it. If you're a qualified taxpayer, you can contribute • The judgment or settlement to which your all or part of your qualified settlement income, attorney fees and court costs apply must Current income not required to be dis- up to $100,000, to an eligible retirement plan, occur after October 22, 2004. tributed. If you're the beneficiary of an estate including an IRA. Contributions to eligible retire- or trust and the fiduciary has the choice of ment plans, other than a Roth IRA or a designa- Pre-existing agreement. If you receive whether to distribute all or part of the current in- ted Roth account, reduce the qualified settle- damages under a written binding agreement, come, you must report all income that is re- ment income that you must include in income. court decree, or mediation award that was in ef- quired to be distributed to you, whether or not See Statement, later. For more information on fect (or issued on or before) September 13, it's actually distributed, plus all other amounts these contributions, see Pubs. 575 and 590-A. 1995, don't include in income any of those dam- actually paid or credited to you, up to the ages received on account of personal injuries or amount of your share of distributable net in- Legal expenses. For tax years after 2017, sickness. come. you can no longer deduct legal expenses that were subject to the 2%-of-adjusted-gross-in- Credit card insurance. In most cases, if you How to report. Treat each item of income come floor. If the qualified settlement income receive benefits under a credit card disability or the same way that the estate or trust would treat was received in connection with your trade or unemployment insurance plan, the benefits are it. For example, if a trust's dividend income is business (other than as an employee), you can taxable to you. These plans make the minimum distributed to you, you report the distribution as reduce the taxable amount of qualified settle- monthly payment on your credit card account if dividend income on your return. The same rule ment income by these expenses. you can't make the payment due to injury, ill- applies to distributions of tax-exempt interest ness, disability, or unemployment. Report on and capital gains. Statement. If you report on Schedule 1 Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8z, the amount of The fiduciary of the estate or trust must tell (Form 1040), line 8z, qualified settlement in- benefits you received during the year that is you the type of items making up your share of come that is less than the gross amount shown more than the amount of the premiums you paid the estate or trust income and any credits you're on Form 1099-MISC, you must attach a state- during the year. allowed on your individual income tax return. ment to your tax return. The statement must identify and show the gross amount of the Publication 525 (2022) Page 33 |
Page 34 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. qualified settlement income, the reductions for to provide food to individuals eligible for help at its FMV in the first year it's your undisputed the amount contributed to an eligible retirement under the program. possession. plan, and the net amount. Foreign currency transactions. If you have a Free tour. If you received a free tour from a Income averaging. For purposes of the in- gain on a personal foreign currency transaction travel agency for organizing a group of tourists, come averaging rules that apply to an individual because of changes in exchange rates, you you must include its value in your income. Re- engaged in a farming or fishing business, quali- don't have to include that gain in your income port the FMV of the tour on Schedule 1 (Form fied settlement income is treated as attributable unless it's more than $200. If the gain is more 1040), line 8z, if you aren't in the trade or busi- to a fishing business for the tax year in which it's than $200, report it as a capital gain. ness of organizing tours. You can't deduct your received. See Schedule J (Form 1040) and its expenses in serving as the voluntary leader of instructions for more information. Foster care providers. Generally, payment the group at the group's request. If you organize you receive from a state, political subdivision, or tours as a trade or business, report the tour's Fees for services. Include all fees for your a qualified foster care placement agency for value on Schedule C (Form 1040). services in your income. Examples of these caring for a qualified foster individual in your fees are amounts you receive for services you home is excluded from your income. However, Gambling winnings. You must include your perform as: you must include in your income payment to the gambling winnings in your income on Schedule • A corporate director; extent it's received for the care of more than 5 1 (Form 1040), line 8b. Winnings from fantasy • An executor, administrator, or personal qualified foster individuals age 19 years or sports leagues are gambling winnings. If you representative of an estate; older. itemize your deductions on Schedule A (Form • A manager of a trade or business you op- A qualified foster individual is a person who: 1040), you can deduct gambling losses you had erated before declaring chapter 11 bank- during the year, but only up to the amount of ruptcy; 1. Is living in a foster family home; and your winnings. If you're in the trade or business • A notary public; or 2. Was placed there by: of gambling, use Schedule C (Form 1040). For • An election precinct official. tax years 2018 through 2025, professional gam- a. An agency of a state or one of its polit- bling losses and expenses are limited to the If you aren't an employee and the fees ical subdivisions, or amount of your winnings. TIP for your services from a single payer in the course of the payer's trade or busi- b. A qualified foster care placement Lotteries and raffles. Winnings from lot- ness total $600 or more for the year, the payer agency. teries and raffles are gambling winnings. In ad- should send you Form 1099-MISC. dition to cash winnings, you must include in Difficulty-of-care payments. These are Corporate director. Corporate director payments that are designated by the payer as your income the FMV of bonds, cars, houses, fees are self-employment income. Report these compensation for providing the additional care and other noncash prizes. However, the differ- payments on Schedule C (Form 1040). that is required for physically, mentally, or emo- ence between the FMV and the cost of an oil tionally handicapped qualified foster individuals. and gas lease obtained from the government Personal representatives. All personal A state must determine that the additional com- through a lottery isn't includible in income. representatives must include in their gross in- pensation is needed, and the care for which the Installment payments. Generally, if you come fees paid to them from an estate. If you payments are made must be provided in the win a state lottery prize payable in installments, aren't in the trade or business of being an exec- foster care provider's home in which the quali- you must include in your gross income the an- utor (for instance, you're the executor of a fied foster individual was placed. nual payments and any amounts you receive friend's or relative's estate), report these fees Certain Medicaid waiver payments are trea- designated as interest on the unpaid install- on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8z. If you're in ted as difficulty-of-care payments when re- ments. If you sell future lottery payments for a the trade or business of being an executor, re- ceived by an individual care provider for caring lump sum, you must report the amount you re- port these fees as self-employment income on for an eligible individual (whether related or un- ceive from the sale as ordinary income (on Schedule C (Form 1040). The fee isn't includi- related) living in the provider's home. See No- Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8b) in the year ble in income if it's waived. tice 2014-7, available at IRS.gov/irb/ you receive it. 2014-4_IRB#NOT-2014-7, and related ques- Manager of trade or business for bank- tions and answers, available at IRS.gov/ Form W-2G. You may have received a ruptcy estate. Include in your income all pay- Individuals/Certain-Medicaid-Waiver- Form W-2G showing the amount of your gam- ments received from your bankruptcy estate for Payments-May-Be-Excludable-From-Income, bling winnings and any tax taken out of them. managing or operating a trade or business that for more information. Include the amount from box 1 on Schedule 1 you operated before you filed for bankruptcy. You must include in your income diffi- (Form 1040), line 8b. Include the amount shown Report this income on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), culty-of-care payments to the extent they're re- in box 4 on Form 1040 or 1040-SR, line 25c, as line 8z. ceived for more than: federal income tax withheld. Notary public. Report payments for these • 10 qualified foster individuals under age services on Schedule C (Form 1040). These 19, or Gifts and inheritances. In most cases, prop- payments aren't subject to self-employment tax. • Five qualified foster individuals age 19 or erty you receive as a gift, bequest, or inheri- See the separate Instructions for Schedule SE older. tance isn't included in your income. However, if property you receive this way later produces in- (Form 1040) for details. Maintaining space in home. If you're come such as interest, dividends, or rents, that Election precinct official. You should re- paid to maintain space in your home for emer- income is taxable to you. If property is given to ceive a Form W-2 showing payments for serv- gency foster care, you must include the pay- a trust and the income from it is paid, credited, ices performed as an election official or election ment in your income. or distributed to you, that income is also taxable worker. Report these payments on line 1a of Reporting taxable payments. If you re- to you. If the gift, bequest, or inheritance is the Form 1040 or 1040-SR. ceive payments that you must include in your income from the property, that income is taxa- income and you're in business as a foster care ble to you. Food program payments to daycare provid- provider, report the payments on Schedule C Inherited pension or IRA. If you inherited ers. If you operate a daycare service and re- (Form 1040). See Pub. 587 to help you deter- a pension or an IRA, you may have to include ceive payments under the Child and Adult Care mine the amount you can deduct for the use of part of the inherited amount in your income. Food Program administered by the Department your home. See Survivors and Beneficiaries in Pub. 575 if of Agriculture that aren't for your services, the payments aren't included in your income in Found property. If you find and keep property you inherited a pension. See What if You Inherit most cases. However, you must include in your that doesn't belong to you that has been lost or an IRA? in Pubs. 590-A and 590-B if you inheri- income any part of the payments you don't use abandoned (treasure trove), it's taxable to you ted an IRA. Page 34 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 35 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Expected inheritance. If you sell an inter- termine the taxable part of social security bene- you pay qualified higher education expenses in est in an expected inheritance from a living per- fits. If the payments are made in property, your the same year. Qualified higher education ex- son, include the entire amount you receive in basis in the property is its FMV when you re- penses are those you pay for tuition and re- gross income on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), ceive it. quired fees at an eligible educational institution line 8z. Excludable restitution payments are pay- for you, your spouse, or your dependent. A ments or distributions made by any country or qualified U.S. savings bond is a series EE bond Bequest for services. If you receive cash any other entity because of persecution of an issued after 1989 or a series I bond. The bond or other property as a bequest for services you individual on the basis of race, religion, physical must have been issued to you when you were performed while the decedent was alive, the or mental disability, or sexual orientation by 24 years of age or older. For more information value is taxable compensation. Nazi Germany, any other Axis regime, or any on this exclusion, see Education Savings Bond Gulf oil spill. If you received payments for lost other Nazi-controlled or Nazi-allied country, Program in chapter 1 of Pub. 550 and in chap- wages or income, property damage, or physical whether the payments are made under a law or ter 10 of Pub. 970. injury due to the Gulf oil spill, the payment may as a result of a legal action. They include com- be taxable. pensation or reparation for property losses re- Interest on state and local government obli- sulting from Nazi persecution, including pro- gations. This interest is usually exempt from Lost wages or income. Payments you re- ceeds under insurance policies issued before federal tax. However, you must show the ceived for lost wages, lost business income, or and during World War II by European insurance amount of any tax-exempt interest on your fed- lost profits are taxable. companies. eral income tax return. For more information, see State or Local Government Obligations in Property damage. Payments you re- Illegal activities. Income from illegal activities, chapter 1 of Pub. 550. ceived for property damage aren't taxable if the such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must payments aren't more than your adjusted basis be included in your income on Schedule 1 Job interview expenses. If a prospective em- in the property. If the payments are more than (Form 1040), line 8z, or on Schedule C (Form ployer asks you to appear for an interview and your adjusted basis, you'll realize a gain. If the 1040) if from your self-employment activity. either pays you an allowance or reimburses you damage was due to an involuntary conversion, for your transportation and other travel expen- you may defer the tax on the gain if you pur- Indian fishing rights. If you're a member of a ses, the amount you receive isn't taxable in chase qualified replacement property. See Pub. qualified Indian tribe that has fishing rights se- most cases. You include in income only the 544. cured by treaty, executive order, or an Act of amount you receive that is more than your ac- If the payments (including insurance pro- Congress as of March 17, 1988, don't include in tual expenses. ceeds) you received, or expect to receive, are your income amounts you receive from activi- less than your adjusted basis, you may be able ties related to those fishing rights. The income Jury duty. Jury duty pay you receive must be to claim a casualty deduction. See Pub. 547. isn't subject to income tax, self-employment tax, included in your income on Schedule 1 (Form Physical injury. Payments you received or employment taxes. 1040), line 8h. If you must give the pay to your employer because your employer continues to for personal physical injuries or physical sick- Indian money account litigation settlement. pay your salary while you serve on the jury, you ness aren't taxable. This includes payments for Amounts received by an individual Indian as a can deduct the amount turned over to your em- emotional distress that is attributable to per- lump sum or periodic payment pursuant to the ployer as an adjustment to income. Enter the sonal physical injuries or physical sickness. Class Action Settlement Agreement dated De- amount you repay your employer on Schedule 1 Payments for emotional distress that aren't at- cember 7, 2009, aren't included in gross in- (Form 1040), line 24a. tributable to personal physical injuries or physi- come. This amount won't be used to figure AGI cal sickness are taxable. or MAGI in applying any Internal Revenue Code Kickbacks. You must include kickbacks, side More information. For the most recent provision that takes into account excludable in- commissions, push money, or similar payments guidance, go to IRS.gov and enter “Gulf Oil come. you receive in your income on Schedule 1 Spill” in the search box. (Form 1040), line 8z, or on Schedule C (Form Interest on frozen deposits. In general, you 1040) if from your self-employment activity. Historic preservation grants. Don’t include in exclude from your income the amount of inter- your income any payment you receive under est earned on a frozen deposit. A deposit is fro- Example 37. You sell cars and help ar- the National Historic Preservation Act to pre- zen if, at the end of the calendar year, you can't range car insurance for buyers. Insurance brok- serve a historically significant property. withdraw any part of the deposit because: ers pay back part of their commissions to you • The financial institution is bankrupt or in- for referring customers to them. You must in- Hobby losses. Losses from a hobby aren't de- solvent, or clude the kickbacks in your income. ductible from other income. A hobby is an activ- • The state where the institution is located ity from which you don't expect to make a profit. has placed limits on withdrawals because Manufacturer incentive payments. You must See Activity not for profit, earlier, under Other other financial institutions in the state are include as other income on Schedule 1 (Form Income. bankrupt or insolvent. 1040), line 8z (or Schedule C (Form 1040) if you're self-employed), incentive payments from If you collect stamps, coins, or other Excludable amount. The amount of inter- a manufacturer that you receive as a salesper- ! items as a hobby for recreation and est you exclude from income for the year is the son. This is true whether you receive the pay- CAUTION pleasure, and you sell any of the items, interest that was credited on the frozen deposit ment directly from the manufacturer or through your gain is taxable as a capital gain. However, for that tax year minus the sum of: your employer. if you sell items from your collection at a loss, 1. The net amount withdrawn from the de- you can't deduct the loss. posit during that year, and Example 38. You sell cars for an automo- bile dealership and receive incentive payments Holocaust victims restitution. Restitution 2. The amount that could have been with- from the automobile manufacturer every time payments you receive as a Holocaust victim (or drawn at the end of that tax year (not re- you sell a particular model of car. You report the the heir of a Holocaust victim) and interest duced by any penalty for premature with- incentive payments on Schedule 1 (Form earned on the payments aren't taxable. Exclud- drawals of a time deposit). 1040), line 8z. able interest is earned by escrow accounts or The excluded part of the interest is included in Medical savings accounts (Archer MSAs settlement funds established for holding funds your income in the tax year it becomes with- and Medicare Advantage MSAs). In most ca- prior to the settlement. You also don't include drawable. ses, you don't include in income amounts you the restitution payments and interest the funds withdraw from your Archer MSA or Medicare earned prior to disbursement in any calculation Interest on qualified savings bonds. You Advantage MSA if you use the money to pay for in which you ordinarily would add excludable in- may be able to exclude from income the interest qualified medical expenses. Generally, qualified come to your AGI, such as the calculation to de- from qualified U.S. savings bonds you redeem if Publication 525 (2022) Page 35 |
Page 36 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. medical expenses are those you can deduct on iii. The name and address of the or- Sale of home. You may be able to exclude Schedule A (Form 1040). For more information ganization to receive the prize or from income all or part of any gain from the sale about Archer MSAs or Medicare Advantage award; or exchange of your main home. See Pub. 523. MSAs, see Pub. 969. iv. Your name, address, and TIN; Sale of personal items. If you sold an item Moving expense reimbursements. For tax and you owned for personal use, such as a car, re- years beginning after 2017, reimbursements for v. Your signature and the date frigerator, furniture, stereo, jewelry, or silver- certain moving expenses are no longer exclu- signed. ware, your gain is taxable as a capital gain. Re- ded from the gross income of nonmilitary tax- port it as explained in the Instructions for payers. See Pub. 521 for more information. c. In the case of an unexpected presen- Schedule D (Form 1040). You can't deduct a tation, you must return the prize or loss. Prizes and awards. If you win a prize in a award before using it (or spending, lucky number drawing, television or radio quiz depositing, or investing it, etc., in the However, if you sold an item you held for in- program, beauty contest, or other event, you case of money) and then prepare the vestment, such as gold or silver bullion, coins, must include it in your income. For example, if statement as described in (b) above. or gems, any gain is taxable as a capital gain and any loss is deductible as a capital loss. you win a $50 prize in a photography contest, d. After the transfer, you should receive you must report this income on Schedule 1 from the payer a written response Example 39. You sold a painting on an on- (Form 1040), line 8i. If you refuse to accept a stating when and to whom the desig- line auction website for $100. You bought the prize, don't include its value in your income. nated amounts were transferred. painting for $20 at a garage sale years ago. Re- Prizes and awards in goods or services port your $80 gain as a capital gain as ex- must be included in your income at their FMV. These rules don't apply to scholarship or fel- plained in the Instructions for Schedule D (Form lowship awards. See Scholarships and fellow- 1040). Employee awards or bonuses. Cash ships, later. awards or bonuses given to you by your em- Scholarships and fellowships. A candidate ployer for good work or suggestions must gen- Qualified opportunity fund (QOF). Effective for a degree can exclude amounts received as erally be included in your income as wages. December 22, 2017, section 1400Z-2 provides a qualified scholarship or fellowship. A qualified However, certain noncash employee achieve- a temporary deferral of inclusion in gross in- scholarship or fellowship is any amount you re- ment awards can be excluded from income. come for eligible gains invested in QOFs, and a ceive that is for: See Bonuses and awards under Miscellaneous stepped-up basis to fair market value of the in- • Tuition and fees required to enroll at or at- Compensation, earlier. vestment in the QOF at time of sale or ex- tend an eligible educational institution; or change, if the investment is held for at least 10 • Course-related expenses, such as fees, Prize points. If you're a salesperson and years. See the Form 8949 instructions on how books, and equipment that are required for receive prize points redeemable for merchan- to report your election to defer eligible gains in- courses at the eligible educational institu- dise that are awarded by a distributor or manu- vested in a QOF. See Form 8997, Initial and tion. These items must be required of all facturer to employees of dealers, you must in- Annual Statement of Qualified Opportunity students in your course of instruction. clude their FMV in your income. The prize Fund (QOF) Investments, and its instructions Amounts used for room and board don't qualify points are taxable in the year they're paid or for reporting information. For additional informa- for the exclusion. See Pub. 970 for more infor- made available to you, rather than in the year tion, see Opportunity Zones Frequently Asked mation on qualified scholarships and fellowship you redeem them for merchandise. Questions, available at IRS.gov/Newsroom/ grants. Pulitzer, Nobel, and similar prizes. If you Opportunity-Zones-Frequently-Asked- were awarded a prize in recognition of accom- Questions. Payment for services. Generally, you plishments in religious, charitable, scientific, ar- can't exclude from your gross income the part tistic, educational, literary, or civic fields, you Qualified tuition program (QTP). A QTP of any scholarship or fellowship that represents must generally include the value of the prize in (also known as a 529 program) is a program set payment for teaching, research, or other serv- your income. However, you don't include this up to allow you to either prepay or contribute to ices required as a condition for receiving the prize in your income if you meet all of the follow- an account established for paying a student's scholarship. This applies even if all candidates ing requirements. qualified higher education expenses at an eligi- for a degree must perform the services to re- ble educational institution. A program can be ceive the degree. 1. You were selected without any action on established and maintained by a state, an your part to enter the contest or proceed- agency or instrumentality of a state, or an eligi- Exceptions. You don't have to include in ing. ble educational institution. income the part of any scholarship or fellowship 2. You aren't required to perform substantial The part of a distribution representing the that represents payment for teaching, research, future services as a condition for receiving amount paid or contributed to a QTP isn't inclu- or other services if you receive the amount un- the prize or award. ded in income. This is a return of the investment der: in the program. • The National Health Services Corps Schol- 3. The prize or award is transferred by the In most cases, the beneficiary doesn't in- arship Program, payer directly to a governmental unit or clude in income any earnings distributed from a • The Armed Forces Health Professions tax-exempt charitable organization as des- QTP if the total distribution is less than or equal Scholarship and Financial Assistance Pro- ignated by you. The following conditions to adjusted qualified higher education expen- gram, or apply to the transfer. ses. See Pub. 970 for more information. • A comprehensive student work-learn- a. You can't use the prize or award be- ing-service program (as defined in section fore it's transferred. Railroad retirement annuities. The following 448(e) of the Higher Education Act of types of payments are treated as pension or an- 1965) operated by a work college (as de- b. You should provide the designation nuity income and are taxable under the rules fined in that section). before the prize or award is presented explained in Pub. 575. For information about the rules that apply to to prevent a disqualifying use. The • Tier 1 railroad retirement benefits that are a tax-free qualified tuition reduction provided to designation should contain: more than the social security equivalent employees and their families by an educational i. The purpose of the designation benefit. institution, see Pub. 970. by making a reference to section • Tier 2 benefits. 74(b)(3); • Vested dual benefits. VA payments. Allowances paid by the VA for education, training, or subsistence under ii. A description of the prize or Rewards. If you receive a reward for providing any law administered by the Department of Vet- award; information, include it in your income. erans Affairs, aren't included in your income. Page 36 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 37 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. These allowances aren't considered scholar- The amount of the rate reduction or nonrefund- Method 1. Figure your tax for the year of ship or fellowship grants. able credit isn't included in your income. repayment claiming a deduction for the repaid amount. Prizes. Scholarship prizes won in a contest Whistleblower's award. If you receive a whis- aren't scholarships or fellowships if you don't tleblower's award from the IRS, you must in- Method 2. Figure your tax for the year of have to use the prizes for educational purpo- clude it in your income. Any deduction allowed repayment claiming a credit for the repaid ses. You must include these amounts in your in- for attorney fees and court costs paid by you, or amount. Follow these steps. come on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8i, on your behalf, in connection with the award are 1. Figure your tax for the year of repayment whether or not you use the amounts for educa- deducted as an adjustment to income, but can't without deducting the repaid amount. tional purposes. be more than the amount included in income for the tax year. 2. Refigure your tax from the earlier year Smallpox vaccine injuries. If you're an eligi- without including in income the amount ble individual who receives benefits under the you repaid in the year of repayment. Smallpox Emergency Personnel Protection Act of 2003 for a covered injury resulting from a Repayments 3. Subtract the tax in (2) from the tax shown covered countermeasure, you can exclude the on your return for the earlier year. This is payment from your income (to the extent it isn't If you had to repay an amount that you included the credit. allowed as a medical and dental expense de- in your income in an earlier year, you may be 4. Subtract the answer in (3) from the tax for duction on Schedule A (Form 1040)). Eligible able to deduct the amount repaid from your in- the year of repayment figured without the individuals include health care workers, emer- come for the year in which you repaid it. Or, if deduction (step 1). gency personnel, and first responders in a the amount you repaid is more than $3,000, you smallpox emergency who have received a may be able to take a credit against your tax for If method 1 results in less tax, deduct the smallpox vaccination. the year in which you repaid it. In most cases, amount repaid. If method 2 results in less tax, you can claim a deduction or credit only if the claim the credit figured in (3) above on Form Stolen property. If you steal property, you repayment qualifies as an expense or loss in- 1040 or 1040-SR. (If the year of repayment is must report its FMV in your income in the year curred in your trade or business or in a for-profit 2021, and you're taking the credit, enter the you steal it, unless in the same year you return it transaction. credit on Schedule 3 (Form 1040), line 13d, and to its rightful owner. see the instructions for it.) Type of deduction. The type of deduction Transporting school children. Don’t include you're allowed in the year of repayment de- Example 40. For 2021, you filed a return in your income a school board mileage allow- pends on the type of income you included in the and reported your income on the cash method. ance for taking children to and from school if earlier year. In most cases, you deduct the re- In 2022, you repaid $5,000 included in your you aren't in the business of taking children to payment on the same form or schedule on 2021 income under a claim of right. Your filing school. You can't deduct expenses for provid- which you previously reported it as income. For status in 2022 and 2021 is single. Your income ing this transportation. example, if you reported it as self-employment and tax for both years are as follows. income, deduct it as a business expense on Union benefits and dues. Amounts deducted Schedule C (Form 1040) or Schedule F (Form 2021 from your pay for union dues, assessments, 1040). If you reported it as a capital gain, de- With Income Without Income contributions, or other payments to a union duct it as a capital loss as explained in the In- Taxable can't be excluded from your income. structions for Schedule D (Form 1040). If you Income $15,000 $10,000 For tax years beginning after 2017, you can reported it as wages, unemployment compen- Tax $1,604 $1,004 no longer deduct job-related expenses or other sation, or other nonbusiness income, you may miscellaneous itemized deductions subject to be able to deduct it as an other itemized deduc- 2022 the 2%-of-adjusted-gross-income floor. tion if the amount repaid is over $3,000. Without Deduction With Deduction Strike and lockout benefits. Benefits paid For tax years beginning after 2017, you Taxable Income $49,950 $44,950 including both cash and the FMV of other prop- CAUTION itemized deductions; so, if the amount to you by a union as strike or lockout benefits, ! can no longer claim any miscellaneous Tax $6,606 $5,506 erty, are usually included in your income as repaid was $3,000 or less, you aren’t able to compensation. You can exclude these benefits deduct it from your income in the year you re- Your tax under method 1 is $5,506. Your tax from your income only when the facts clearly paid it. under method 2 is $6,006, figured as follows. show that the union intended them as gifts to Tax previously determined for 2021 . . . . . . $1,604 you. Repaid social security benefits. If you re- Less: Tax as refigured . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . − 1,004 paid social security or equivalent railroad retire- Reimbursed union convention expen- ment benefits, see Pub. 915. Decrease in 2021 tax. . . . . . . . . . . . $ 600 ses. If you're a delegate of your local union chapter and you attend the annual convention Repayment over $3,000. If the amount you Regular tax liability for 2022 . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,606 Less: Decrease in 2021 tax . . . . . . . . . . . . − 600 of the international union, don't include in your repaid was more than $3,000, you can deduct Refigured tax for 2022. . . . . . . . . . . $6,006 income amounts you receive from the interna- the repayment as an other itemized deduction tional union to reimburse you for expenses of on Schedule A (Form 1040), line 16, if you in- traveling away from home to attend the conven- cluded the income under a claim of right. This You pay less tax using method 1, so you should tion. You can't deduct the reimbursed expen- means that at the time you included the income, take a deduction for the repayment in 2022. ses, even if you're reimbursed in a later year. If it appeared that you had an unrestricted right to you're reimbursed for lost salary, you must in- it. However, you can choose to take a credit for Repaid wages subject to social security clude that reimbursement in your income. the year of repayment. Figure your tax under and Medicare taxes. If you had to repay an both methods and compare the results. Use the amount that you included in your wages or com- Utility rebates. If you're a customer of an elec- method (deduction or credit) that results in less pensation in an earlier year on which social se- tric utility company and you participate in the tax. curity, Medicare, or tier 1 RRTA taxes were utility's energy conservation program, you may paid, ask your employer to refund the excess receive on your monthly electric bill either: When determining whether the amount amount to you. If the employer refuses to refund • A reduction in the purchase price of elec- ! you repaid was less than $3,000, con- the taxes, ask for a statement indicating the tricity furnished to you (rate reduction), or CAUTION sider the total amount being repaid on amount of the overcollection to support your • A nonrefundable credit against the pur- the return. Each instance of repayment isn't claim. File a claim for refund using Form 843. chase price of the electricity. considered separately. Publication 525 (2022) Page 37 |
Page 38 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Repaid wages subject to Additional Medi- fillable forms. However, state tax prepara- • IRS.gov/Forms: Find forms, instructions, care Tax. Employers can't make an adjust- tion may not be available through Free and publications. You will find details on ment or file a claim for refund for Additional File. Go to IRS.gov/FreeFile to see if you the most recent tax changes and interac- Medicare Tax withholding when there is a re- qualify for free online federal tax prepara- tive links to help you find answers to your payment of wages received by an employee in tion, e-filing, and direct deposit or payment questions. a prior year because the employee determines options. • You may also be able to access tax law in- liability for Additional Medicare Tax on the em- • VITA. 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Watching IRS videos. The IRS Video portal Free options for tax preparation. Go to • IRS.gov/Help: A variety of tools to help you (IRSVideos.gov) contains video and audio pre- IRS.gov to see your options for preparing and get answers to some of the most common sentations for individuals, small businesses, filing your return online or in your local commun- tax questions. and tax professionals. ity, if you qualify, which include the following. • IRS.gov/ITA: The Interactive Tax Assistant, • Free File. This program lets you prepare a tool that will ask you questions and, Online tax information in other languages. and file your federal individual income tax based on your input, provide answers on a You can find information on IRS.gov/ return for free using brand-name tax-prep- number of tax law topics. MyLanguage if English isn’t your native lan- aration-and-filing software or Free File guage. Page 38 Publication 525 (2022) |
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Page 40 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Note. You can use Schedule LEP (Form rights. Their job is to ensure that every taxpayer TaxpayerAdvocate.IRS.gov/Contact-Us. You 1040), Request for Change in Language Prefer- is treated fairly and that you know and under- can also call them at 877-777-4778. ence, to state a preference to receive notices, stand your rights under the Taxpayer Bill of letters, or other written communications from Rights. How Else Does TAS Help the IRS in an alternative language. You may not Taxpayers? immediately receive written communications in How Can You Learn About Your the requested language. The IRS’s commitment Taxpayer Rights? TAS works to resolve large-scale problems that to LEP taxpayers is part of a multi-year timeline affect many taxpayers. 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If you still need help, IRS TACs TAS can help you resolve problems that you your practice. provide tax help when a tax issue can’t be han- can’t resolve with the IRS. And their service is dled online or by phone. All TACs now provide free. If you qualify for their assistance, you will Low Income Taxpayer service by appointment, so you’ll know in ad- be assigned to one advocate who will work with Clinics (LITCs) vance that you can get the service you need you throughout the process and will do every- without long wait times. Before you visit, go to thing possible to resolve your issue. TAS can LITCs are independent from the IRS. LITCs IRS.gov/TACLocator to find the nearest TAC help you if: represent individuals whose income is below a and to check hours, available services, and ap- • Your problem is causing financial difficulty certain level and need to resolve tax problems pointment options. Or, on the IRS2Go app, un- for you, your family, or your business; with the IRS, such as audits, appeals, and tax der the Stay Connected tab, choose the Con- • You face (or your business is facing) an collection disputes. In addition, LITCs can pro- tact Us option and click on “Local Offices.” immediate threat of adverse action; or vide information about taxpayer rights and re- • You’ve tried repeatedly to contact the IRS sponsibilities in different languages for individu- but no one has responded, or the IRS als who speak English as a second language. The Taxpayer Advocate hasn’t responded by the date promised. Services are offered for free or a small fee for Service (TAS) Is Here To eligible taxpayers. To find an LITC near you, go Help You How Can You Reach TAS? to TaxpayerAdvocate.IRS.gov/about-us/Low- What Is TAS? Income-Taxpayer-Clinics-LITC or see IRS Pub. TAS has offices in every state, the District of 4134, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic List. TAS is an independent organization within the Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Your local advo- IRS that helps taxpayers and protects taxpayer cate’s number is in your local directory and at To help us develop a more useful index, please let us know if you have ideas for index entries. Index See “Comments and Suggestions” in the “Introduction” for the ways you can reach us. Aircraft 9 Retirement pay 16 Business income 17 18, 1231 property sale 17 Airlines: Veterans benefits 16 401(k) plans 9 No-additional-cost services 8 Assistance (See Tax help) C Excess contributions 11 Valuation of flights on Athletic facilities, Cafeteria plans 18 403(b) plans 9 employer-provided aircraft 9 employer-provided 5 Limit for 10 Alaska Permanent Fund Automobile (See Vehicle, Campaign contributions 32 457 plans 9 dividend 32 employer-provided) Campus lodging 8 Limit for deferrals under 10 Alien status, waiver of 16 Awards (See Damages from Cancellation of debt 21 501(c)(18)(D) plans 9 Aliens: lawsuits) Cancellation of sales Contributions 10 Nonresident 25 contracts 32 529 program 36 Alimony 32 B Capital gains: Recoveries 25 29, 83(b) election 14 Alternative minimum tax (AMT): Babysitting 3 Capital gains or losses: Recoveries, refiguring of 29 Back pay, award for 3 Employee stock option plans A Stock options 12 Backup withholding: (ESOPs) 13 Annuities: Barter exchange ISOs (ISOs) 13 Academic health centers: Charitable gift 32 transactions 20 Sale of personal property 36 teaching and research Meals and lodging when Railroad retirement 36 Bankruptcy 3 Car (See Vehicle, employer- organization 8 Tax-sheltered 10 Canceled debt not deemed to be provided) Accelerated death benefits 24 Archer MSAs 5 35, income 22 Carpools 32 Accident insurance 5 Armed forces 16 Barter income 20 Cash or deferred arrangements Accidental death benefits 6 Combat zone bonus 16 Below-market loans 32 (CODAs) 9 Accrual method taxpayers 3 Disability 16 Bequest for services 35 Cash rebates 32 Accrued leave payment: Disability pensions 18 Bitcoin 4 Casualty insurance: At time of retirement or Health professions Black lung benefit payments 20 Reimbursements from 32 resignation 4 scholarship 9 Bonuses 4 36, Catch-up contributions 10 Disability retirement 18 Military action as cause of Breach of contract: Charitable gift annuities 32 Activity not for profit 32 disability injuries 19 Damages as income 32 Child and Adult Care Food Adoption: Qualified reservist Bribes 32 Program: distribution 16 Employer assistance 5 Rehabilitative program Business expenses: Payments to daycare Advance commissions 3 payments 16 Reimbursements 3 providers 34 Child support payments 32 Page 40 Publication 525 (2022) |
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Childcare providers 3 34, Unemployment compensation, Estimated tax: Royalties 17 Chronic illness 19 paid as substitute for 30 Unemployment Form 1040, Schedule D: Accelerated death benefits paid Disaster relief: compensation 30 Stock options 12 to 24 Disaster mitigation payments 31 Excess: Stock options reported on 12 Citizens outside U.S.: Disaster Relief and Emergency Annual additions 11 Form 1040, Schedule E: Exclusion of foreign income 2 Assistance Act: Contributions 11 Partner's return 17 Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII: Grants 30 Deferrals 10 Royalties 17 Back pay and damages for Unemployment benefits 29 Expected inheritance 35 Form 1041: emotional distress under 32 Payments 30 Expenses paid by another 33 Estates and trusts 33 Clergy 15 Discounts: Exxon Valdez settlement 33 Form 1041, Schedule K-1: Coal 17 Employee discounts 6 Eligible retirement plan 33 Beneficiary's share of income, Colleges and universities: Employee stock purchase Income averaging 34 deductions, credits, etc. 33 Faculty lodging 8 plans 13 Legal expenses 33 Form 1065: Scholarships and fellowships 36 Mortgage loan for early Reporting Partnership return 17 Commissions: payment 21 requirement-statement 33 Form 1065, Schedule K-1: Advance 3 Dividends: Partner's share of income 17 Commuter highway vehicles 8 Restricted stock 15 F Form 1098: Compensation: Divorced taxpayers: Mortgage interest statement 24 Employee 3 Stock options exercised incident Faculty lodging 8 Miscellaneous 3 to divorce 12 Fair Market Value (FMV) 3 Form 1099-B: Unemployment 29 Down payment assistance 33 Farming: Barter exchange Qualified farm debt, cancellation transactions 20 21, Workers' 19 of 22 Form 1099-C: Compensatory damages 20 33, E Cancellation of debt 21 Federal employees: Constructive receipt of income 2 Educational assistance: Accrued leave payment 4 Form 1099-DIV: Copyrights: Employer-provided 6 Compensation Act (FECA) Restricted stock dividends 15 Infringement damages 32 Scholarships and fellowships 36 payments 20 Form 1099-G: Royalties 17 Educational institutions: Cost-of-living allowances 4 State tax refunds 24 Corporate directors 34 Faculty lodging 8 Disability pensions 18 Unemployment Cost-of-living allowances 4 Elderly persons: Thrift Savings Plan for 9 compensation 29 Court awards 32 Nutrition Program for the Federal income tax: Form 1099-K: (See also Damages from lawsuits) Elderly 32 Refunds 24 Sharing/Gig economy 29 Credit card Insurance 33 Tax Counseling for the Fees for services 34 Form 1099-MISC: Credits: Elderly 16 Financial counseling fees 6 Services totaling $600 or Recoveries, refiguring of unused Election precinct officials 34 Fellowships 36 more 34 credits 28 29, Elective deferrals 9 FICA withholding: Stock options exercised incident to divorce 12 Currency transactions, Catch-up contributions 10 Foreign employers, U.S. citizens Form 1099-R: foreign 34 Excess annual additions 11 working for in U.S. 16 Excess contributions 11 Paid by employer 4 Charitable gift annuities 32 D Excess deferrals 10 Fiduciaries: Excess annual additions 11 Damages from lawsuits 32 Increased limit for last 3 years Fees for services 34 Excess deferral amounts 11 Back pay awards 3 prior to retirement age 10 Financial counseling fees 6 Surrender of life insurance policy Breach of contract 32 Limit on 9 (See also Retirement planning for cash 23 Compensatory damages 20 33, Reporting by employer 10 services) Form 1120-POL: Emotional distress under Title Emergency Homeowners' Loan Fitness programs: Political organizations 32 VII, Civil Rights Act of Program 31 Employer-provided 5 Form 1120-S: 1964 32 Emotional distress damages 33 Flights: S corporation return 18 Punitive damages 32 Employee achievement Employer-provided aircraft 9 Form 1120-S, Schedule K-1: Daycare providers 3 awards 4 No-additional-cost services 8 Shareholder's share of income, (See also Childcare providers) Employee awards or bonuses 36 Food benefits: credits, deductions, etc. 18 Food program payments to 34 Employee compensation 3 15- Daycare providers, food program Form 2441: De minimis (minimal) benefits 5, Fringe benefits 5 9- payments to 34 Child and dependent care 8 Restricted property 14 15, Nutrition Program for the expenses 6 Death benefits 23 Retirement plan contributions 9 Elderly 32 Form 4255: (See also Life insurance) Stock options 11 13- Foreign: Recapture of investment Accelerated 24 Employee discounts 6 Currency transactions 34 credit 29 Debts: Employee stock purchase Employment 16 Form 6251: Canceled 21 plans 12 13, Governments, employees of 16 Alternative minimum tax 12 Excluded debt 22 Employer-owned life Income 2 Form 8839: Nonrecourse debts 21 insurance 23 Service 18 Adoption assistance 5 Recourse 21 Employer-provided: Form 1040: Form 8853: Stockholder's 21 Educational assistance 6 Excess contributions to elective Accelerated death benefits 24 Deduction: Vehicles 9 deferrals 11 Archer MSAs and long-term care Costs of discrimination suits 33 Employer, foreign 16 Recoveries 25 insurance contracts 5 Deferred compensation: Employment: Unemployment Form 8919: Nonqualified plans 4 Abroad 16 compensation 29 Uncollected social security and Dependent care benefits 6 Agency fees 33 Wages from Form W-2 3 Medicare tax on wages 3 Depletion allowance 17 Contracts: Form 1040, Schedule A: Form RRB-1099: Differential wage payments 4 Severance pay for Repayment of commissions paid Railroad retirement board Armed forces 16 cancellation of 4 in advance 3 payments 31 Directors' fees 34 Endowment proceeds 23 Form 1040, Schedule B: Form SSA-1099: Disability: Energy: Restricted stock dividends 15 Social security benefit statement 31 Military 16 Assistance 32 Form 1040, Schedule C: Form W-2: Pensions 18 Conservation: Bartering 20 501(c)(18)(D) contributions 10 Workers' compensation 20 Subsidies 33 Childcare providers to use 3 Accrued leave payment at time Person with 30 Utility rebates 37 Personal property rental, of retirement or resignation 4 Estate income 33 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Failure to receive from Reimbursement arrangement 5 235 of National Housing employer 3 Savings account 5 Job interview expenses 35 Act) 31 Fringe benefits reported on 5 Highly compensated employees: Joint returns: Discounted loan 21 Stock options from Excess contributions to elective Social security benefits or Interest refund 24 employers 12 deferrals 11 railroad retirement Qualified principal residence payments 31 indebtedness 22 Wage and tax statement 3 Historic preservation grants 35 Joint state/local tax return: Relief 21 Form W-2G: Hobby losses 35 Recoveries 24 Motor vehicle, Gambling winnings 34 Holding period requirement 13 Jury duty pay 35 employer-provided 9 Form W-4V: Holiday gifts 5 Unemployment compensation, Holocaust victims restitution 35 Moving expenses: voluntary withholding Home, sale of 36 K Reimbursements 3 36, request 30 Host 23 Kickbacks 35 MSAs (Medical savings accounts) 35 Form W-9: Hotels: identification number 20 Request for taxpayer No-additional-cost services 8 L N Foster care 34 Housing (See Lodging) Labor unions: National Health Service Corps Foster Grandparent Program 16, Convention expenses, Scholarship Program 9 17 I reimbursed 37 National Oceanic and Found property 34 Illegal activities 35 Dues 37 Atmospheric Fringe benefit FMV 9 Income: Strike and lockout benefits 37 Administration 18 Fringe benefits 5 Assigned 2 Unemployment benefits paid National Senior Service Accident and health insurance 5 Business and investment 17 18, from 30 Corps 16 17, Adoption, employer Constructive receipt of 2 Last day of tax year, income No-additional-cost services 8 received on 2 No-fault car insurance: assistance 5 Estate and trust 33 Leave (See Accrued leave Disability benefits under 20 Athletic facilities 5 Foreign employers 16 payment) Nobel prize 36 Commuter highway vehicles 8 Illegal 35 Length-of-service awards 4 Nonrecourse debt 21 De minimis benefits 5 8, Miscellaneous 20 Life insurance: Nonstatutory stock options 11 Dependent care benefits 6 Other 32 Employer-owned 23 Nontaxable income 2 Educational assistance 6 Partnership 17 Proceeds 23 Not-for-profit activities 32 Employee discounts 6 Prepaid 3 Surrender of policy for cash 23 Notary fees 34 Faculty lodging 8 S corporation 18 Loans 21 Notes received for services 4 Financial counseling fees 6 Indian fishing rights 35 (See also Mortgage) Holiday gifts 5 Indian money account 35 Below-market 32 Nutrition Program for the Elderly 32 Meals and lodging 8 Individual retirement Student 21 Moving expenses (See Moving arrangements (IRAs): Lockout benefits 37 expenses) Deduction 32 Lodging: O No-additional-cost services 8 Inherited IRA 34 Campus lodging 8 Oil: Retirement planning Inheritance 34 Clergy 15 Royalties from 17 (See Retirement planning services) IRA 34 Employer-paid or reimbursed 8 Options, stock 11 13, Transit pass 8 Property not substantially Faculty lodging 8 Outplacement services 4 Tuition reduction 9 vested 15 Replacement housing Overseas work 2 Valuation of 9 Injury benefits 18 20- payments 31 Vehicle 9 Insurance Long-term care insurance 5 19, P Working condition benefits 9 Credit card 33 Lotteries and raffles 34 Frozen deposits: Health 5 Lump-sum distributions: Parking fees: Interest on 35 Life (See Life insurance) Survivor benefits 29 Employer-paid or reimbursed 8 Long-term care (See Long-term Partner and partnership care insurance) income 17 G Interest: M Patents: Gambling winnings and Canceled debt including 21 Manufacturer incentive Infringement damages 32 losses 34 Frozen deposits 35 payments 35 Royalties 17 Gas: Mortgage refunds 24 Meals: Peace Corps 16 Royalties from 17 Option on insurance 23 Employer-paid or reimbursed 8 Pensions: Gifts 34 Recovery amounts 24 Nutrition Program for the Clergy 15 Holiday gifts from employer 5 Savings bond 35 Elderly 32 Disability pensions 18 Government employees State and local government Medicaid waiver payments 2 34, Inherited pensions 34 (See Federal employees; State obligations 35 Medical: Military 16 employees) Interference with business Care reimbursements 20 Personal property: Grantor trusts 33 operations: Savings accounts 35 Rental income and expense 17 Group-term life insurance: Damages as income 32 Medicare: Sale of 36 Worksheets 6 7, International organizations, Advantage MSAs 35 Personal representatives Gulf oil spill 35 employees of 16 Benefits 31 (See Fiduciaries) Interview expenses 35 Tax paid by employer 4 Prepaid income 3 H Investment counseling fees 6 Medicare tax (See Social security Price reduced after purchase 22 (See also Retirement planning and Medicare taxes) Prizes and awards 4 36, HAMP: services) Military (See Armed forces) Achievement awards 4 Home affordable modification Investment income 17 18, Minerals: Employee awards or program: IRAs (See Individual retirement Royalties from 17 bonuses 36 Pay-for-performance success arrangements (IRAs)) Miscellaneous: Length-of-service awards 4 payments 31 Iron ore 17 Compensation 3 Pulitzer, Nobel, and similar Hardest Hit Fund Program 31 ISOs (ISOs) 12 13, Income 20 prizes 36 Safety achievement 4 Page 42 Publication 525 (2022) |
Page 43 of 43 Fileid: … tions/p525/2022/a/xml/cycle08/source 8:29 - 7-Feb-2023 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Scholarship prizes 37 Retirement: Stock options 11 13, Trusts: Profit-sharing plan 18 Settlement 2 Stock options, nonstatutory: Grantor trusts 33 Public assistance benefits 30 Retirement planning services 6, Exercise or transfer 12 Income 33 Public Health Service 18 8 Grant 11 Tuition program, qualified Public safety officers killed in Retirement plans 16 Sale 12 (QTP) 36 line of duty 29 (See also Pensions) Stock options, statutory: Tuition reduction 9 Public transportation passes, Automatic contribution Exercise 12 employer-provided 8 arrangements 9 Grant 12 U Publications (See Tax help) Contributions 9 11 12, , Sale 12 Unemployment Pulitzer prize 36 Elective deferrals (See Elective Stockholder debts 21 compensation 29 Punitive damages 32 deferrals) Rewards 36 Stolen property 37 Unions (See Labor unions) Q Roth contributions 10 Strike benefits 37 Unlawful discrimination suits: Royalties 17 Student loans: Deduction for costs 33 Qualified tuition program Cancellation of debt 21 (QTP) 36 S Substantial risk of forfeiture 14 V Substantially vested property 14 R S corporations 18 Supplemental unemployment VA payments 36 Safety achievement awards 4 benefits 30 Valuation: Raffles 34 Salary reduction simplified Surviving spouse: Fringe benefits 9 Railroad: employee pension plans Life insurance proceeds paid Stock options 11 Retirement annuities 36 (See SARSEPs) to 23 Vehicle: Sick pay 20 Sale of home 36 Survivor benefits 29 Commuter highway 8 Unemployment compensation Sales contracts: Employer-provided 9 benefits 29 Cancellation of 32 T Veterans benefits 16 Real estate: SARSEPs 9 Disability compensation 19 Qualified real property business Excess contributions 11 Tables and figures: Retroactive VA debt, cancellation of 22 Savings bonds 35 Group-term life insurance determination 19 (Table 1) 7 Special statute of limitations 19 Cash 32 for employees (See SIMPLE Rebates: Savings incentive match plans Tax benefit rule 24 Viatical settlements 24 Utility 37 plans) Tax Counseling for the Virtual Currency 4 Recovery of amounts previously Scholarships and fellowships 36 Elderly 16 deducted 24 26, Self-employed persons: Tax help 38 Volunteer work 16 Itemized deductions 24 25, U.S. citizens working for foreign Tax-sheltered annuity plans Tax counseling (Volunteer Non-itemized deductions 29 employers in U.S. treated (403(b) plans) 9 Income Tax Assistance Program) 16 Unused tax credits, refiguring as 16 Limit for 10 Volunteers in Service to America of 28 29, Senior Companion Program 16 Terminal illness 24 (VISTA) 16 Worksheet of itemized Service Corps of Retired Terrorist attacks: deductions (Worksheet Executives (SCORE) 16 Disability payments for injuries W 2) 27 28, Severance pay 4 from 19 Refunds: Outplacement services 4 Tax relief for victims 2 18, W-2 form (See Form W-2) Federal income tax 24 Sick pay 4 Thrift Savings Plan 9 Welfare benefits 30 Mortgage interest 24 Sickness and injury benefits 20 Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1964: Whistleblower 37 State tax 24 SIMPLE plans 9 Back pay and damages for Winter energy payments 32 Rehabilitative program Limit for deferrals under 10 emotional distress under 32 Withholding: payments 16 Smallpox vaccine injuries 37 Tour guides, free tours for 34 Barter exchange Reimbursements: Social security and Medicare Trade Act of 1974: transactions 20 Business expenses 3 taxes: Trade readjustment allowances Unemployment Casualty losses 32 Foreign employers, U.S. citizens under 30 compensation 30 Meals and lodging 8 working for in U.S. 16 Transferable property 14 Work-training programs 30 Medical expenses 20 Paid by employer 4 Transit passes 8 Workers' compensation 19 Moving expenses 3 36, Standard deduction: Travel agencies: Working condition benefits 9 Related party transactions: Recoveries 26 Free tour to organizer of group of Worksheets: Stock option transfer 12 State employees: tourists 34 Computations for Worksheet 2, Religious order members 15 Unemployment benefits paid Travel and transportation lines 1a and 1b (Worksheet Rental income and expenses: to 30 expenses: 2a) 27 Personal property rental 17 State or local governments: Free tours from travel Group-term life insurance agencies 34 (Worksheet 1) 6 7, Reporting of 17 Interest on obligations of 35 Fringe benefits 8 Recoveries of itemized Repayments 37 38, State or local taxes: Reimbursements 3 deductions (Worksheet Repossession 32 Refunds 24 School children, transporting 2) 27 28, Restricted property 14 15, Statutory stock option holding of 37 Retired Senior Volunteer period 13 Program (RSVP) 16 17, Stock appreciation rights 4 Publication 525 (2022) Page 43 |