INDIVIDUAL - FORMS & TERMS Flashcards
Form 8867
Form 8867 is the Paid Preparer’s Due Diligence Checklist.
Required with returns claiming EITC, CTC, ACTC, ODC, AOTC, or HOH filing status.
EITC
Earned Income Tax Credit (or EIC)
A benefit for working people with low to moderate income. To qualify, you must meet certain requirements and file a tax return, even if you do not owe any tax or are not required to file. EITC reduces the amount of tax you owe and may give you a refund.
CTC
Child Tax Credit
ACTC
Additional Child Tax Credit
ODC
Other Dependent Credit
TIN
Taxpayer Identification Number
ITIN
Individual Taxpayer Identification Number
AOTC
American Opportunity Tax Credit.
A credit for qualified education expenses paid for an eligible student for the first four years of higher education.
Maximum annual credit of $2,500 per eligible student
Partially Refundable:
You can have 40 percent of any remaining amount of the credit (up to $1,000) refunded to you.
Form 8863
Form 8863 is required for Education Credits (American Opportunity Tax Credit and Lifetime learning Credit)
HOH
Head Of Household filing Status
Child And Dependent Care Credit - Qualifying Individuals
- Your dependent qualifying child who was UNDER AGE 13 when the care was provided,
- Your SPOUSE who was physically or mentally incapable of self-care and lived with you for more than half of the year, or
- An individual who was physically or mentally incapable of self-care, LIVED WITH YOU for more than half of the year, and either: (a) was your dependent; or (b) could have been your dependent except that he or she received gross income of $4,200 or more, or filed a joint return, or you (or your spouse, if filing jointly) could have been claimed as a dependent on another taxpayer’s 2019 return.
HCTC
Health Coverage Tax Credit
A Federal tax credit administered by the IRS, has been extended for all coverage months beginning in 2020. This means eligible individuals can receive a tax credit to offset the cost of their monthly health insurance premiums for 2020 if they have qualified health coverage for the HCTC. A qualified health plan offered through a Health Insurance Marketplace is not qualified coverage for the HCTC.
EIC
Earned Income Credit
A benefit for working people with low to moderate income. To qualify, you must meet certain requirements and file a tax return, even if you do not owe any tax or are not required to file. EITC reduces the amount of tax you owe and may give you a refund.
Form 8332
The Custodial Parent must file Form 8332 to allow the noncustodial parent to claim the child for the Child Tax Credit, Additional Child Tax Credit, and the credit for other dependents.
Form 4137
Form 4137 is used to figure the Social Security and Medicare tax owed on tips you did not report to your employer, including any allocated tips shown on your Form(s) W-2 that you must report as income.
However, Form 4137 should not be used to report tips received for work covered by the Railroad Retirement Tax Act. In order to get railroad retirement credit, the taxpayer must report these tips to his or her employer.
Form 8919
Use Form 8919 to report Uncollected Social Security and Medicare Tax on Wages reported on a 1099-MISC.
ATIP
Attributed Tip Income Program
Archer MSA
An Archer Medical Savings Account is a tax-exempt trust or custodial account set up with a financial institution such as a bank or an insurance company. Contributions you make to the account can be used to pay for health-care expenses not covered by your health insurance plan.
NOTE: The Archer MSA program expired on December 31, 2007
HSA
Health Savings Accounts
Employer contributions are not included in income.
Distributions not used for qualified medical expenses are included in income and may be subject to early withdrawal penalties.
Coverdell ESA
A Coverdell Education Savings Programs is a trust or custodial account set up in the United States solely for paying qualified education expenses for the designated beneficiary of the account
QTP
A Qualified Tuition Program, also referred to as a section 529 plan, is a program established and maintained by a state, or an agency or instrumentality of a state, that allows a contributor either to prepay a beneficiary’s qualified higher education expenses at an eligible educational institution or to contribute to an account for paying those expenses.
PTC
Premium Tax Credit
Credit for Federal Tax on Fuels
- A credit for certain nontaxable uses (or sales) of fuel during your income tax year.
- The alternative fuel credit.
- A credit for blending a diesel-water fuel emulsion.
Form 4136
Form 4136 - Used to claim credit for certain nontaxable uses of fuel during your income tax year.
Form 1040-SR
Is available as an optional alternative to using Form 1040 for taxpayers who are 65 or older.
Forms 1040A and 1040EZ
Are no longer used
Schedule A
Itemized Deductions
When itemized Deductions exceed the amount of the standard deduction, a taxpayer attaches Sch A to Form 1040 to claim the higher amount.
Schedule B
Interest and Ordinary Dividends
Used if:
- A taxpayer has over $1500 of taxable interest or ordinary dividens.
- Receipt of Interest from a seller-financed mortgage and the buyer used the property as a personal residence.
- Accrued interest from a bond.
- When reporting Original Issue Discount (OID) less than the amount shown on Form 1099-OID.
- Reduction of interest income on a bond by the amount of amortizable bond premium
- A claimed exclusion of interest from series EE or I US Savings bonds issues after 1989.
- The taxpayer receives interest or ordinary dividends as a nominee.
- The taxpayer has a certain interest in a financial account in a foreign country or foreign trust.
Schedule D
Capital gains and Losses
Used to report the sale or exchange of capital assets. Property for personal purposes, pleasure, or investment (Capital Assets).
Schedule J
Income Averaging for Farmers and Fisherman
Used to figure income tax by averaging, over the 3 previous years (base years), all or part of current year taxable income from farming or fishing.
Does not apply when figuring the AMT.
Schedule 8812
Additional Child Tax Credit
Used to figure the ACTC
EIC
Earned Income Credit
Used to give the IRS info about your qualifying child(ren).
Schedule 1
Additional Income and Adjustments To Income
Used to report additional income such as unemployment comp, prize or award money, gambling winnings, and to claim adjustments income such as student loan interest deduction, self-employment tax, and educator expenses.
Schedule C
Net Profit or Loss from Business (Under Schedule 1)
Used when operating a business as:
- Sole Proprietor or disregarded entity (single-member LLC treated as a sole proprietor)
- Qualified Joint Venture
- Statutory Employee
Schedule E
Supplemental Income and Loss (Under Schedule 1)
Used to report income or loss from rental real estate, royalties, partnerships, S Corps, Estates, Trusts, and Residual Interests in REMICs.
Schedule F
Profit or Loss from Farming (Under Schedule 1)
used to figure net profit or loss from regular farming. Includes farm products raised for sale or products bought for resale.
Schedule 2
Additional Taxes
Used to report amounts of other taxes such as Self-Employment Tax, Household Employment Tax, Additional Tax on IRAs or other qualified Retirement Plans and tax-favored account, ATM, or if needing to make an Excess Advance Premium Tax Credit Payment.
AMT
Alternative Minimum Tax
A tax that ensures that taxpayers pay at least the minimum. The AMT recalculates income tax after adding certain tax preference items back into adjusted gross income. AMT uses a separate set of rules to calculate taxable income after allowed deductions.
Schedule SE
Self-Employment Tax (Under Schedule 2)
Used to figure the tax due on net earnings from Self-Employment. This is essentially Social Security and Medicare for the self-employed.
For 2019 the first $132,900 of net earnings is subject to Social Security tax. All net earnings are subject to Medicare tax.
Schedule H
Household Employment Taxes (Under Schedule 2)
Used to report employment taxes withheld for household employees if the taxpayer paid cash wages of $2,100 or more in 2019 to any one household employee.
Schedule 3
Additional Credits and Payments
Used to claim any credit that wasn’t claimed on Form 1040, such as Foreign Tax Credit, Education Credits, General Business Credit, or for other payments such as an amount paid with a request for an extension to file or excess social security withheld.
Schedule R
Credit for the Elderly or Disabled (Under Schedule 3)
A US Citizen or Resident Alien with limited income who is age 65 or older at the end of the year can file this schedule to receive a credit.
How to order a paper return
Assemble any schedules and forms behind Form 1040 in order of the “Attachment Seq. Number” shown in the upper right corner of the schedule or form.
Form 8949
Form 8949 is used to list all Capital Gain and loss transactions. The subtotals from Form 8949 are carried to Sch D, where gain or loss is calculated in aggregate.
Reportable:
1. Sales, exchanges, or involuntary conversions of capital assets.
- Capital Gain distributions not reported directly on Form 1040.
- Nonbusiness Bad Debts
REMIC
Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit.
Reported on Sch E.
A complex pool of mortgage securities created to acquire investment income for its creators and investors
Q: Are these bad for the economy?
OID
Original Issue Discount
OID is the amount of discount or the difference between the original face value and the price paid for the bond. Or otherwise:
OID is defined as the difference between the stated redemption price at maturity and the issue price.
The discount is used by bond issuers to attract buyers to purchase bonds to raise funds for businesses.
Form 8853
The total contributions to an Archer MSA (appearing in Box 12 of Form W-2 with code R, must be reported on Form 8853, which should be filed with the tax return.
HRA
Health Reimbursement Arrangement.
provided by an employer and generally not included in income.