hgadagkar wrote...
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You will not get a 1099-G for a FEDERAL REFUND

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You do not have to, it's not taxable income.

You are confusing this with STATE tax refunds, if your STATE
ES DEPOSITS were deducted as contributed, and you deducted
it on your Federal Schedule A, recovery of the deduction as
income in the following year as a "Taxable STATE income tax
refund"

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hgadagkar[at]gmail.com asked:

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Not to worry. As far as the IRS is concerned, your refund
is not income. The only possible issue would arise if you
had itemized a _state_ income tax return, and deducted your
_federal_ taxes paid.

BTW, I've never heard of the IRS issuing 1099-G's for
refunds of tax overpayment.

Bill

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If you deducted taxes paid in 2006 on your 2006 Schedule A,
that $4K was (or at least should have been) included in that
amount. In other words, you didn't count that $4K as income
in 2006 because you used it to make a tax payment. Since
you're getting it back, you didn't actually pay taxes with
it after all and must include it as income in 2007 since you
did not do so in 2006. In other other words, you DIDN'T pay
taxes on that 4K in 2006, so you must do so in 2007.

If you didn't itemize in 2006, you probably won't even get a
1099G. If you do, you can ignore it. Well, don't actually
ignore it -file it away with the rest of your 2007 paperwork
- but don't include that amount as income on the tax form.

--
John D. Goulden

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<hgadagkar[at]gmail.com> wrote:

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You won't get a 1099-G. Federal tax payments aren't
deductible on the Federal return, nor are refunds taxable.

--
Phil Marti
Clarksburg, MD

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At the end of 2006, I sent $4K (which was after tax money)
to IRS since I believed that I may owe taxes. After I
prepared my tax return, I now have a net refund of little
over $5K.

When I get my 1099-G next year, how do I account for the
fact that $4K of the refund was paid with after tax money so
that I don't pay taxes on it again on my 2007 return?

Thanks in advance.

Rishi.

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