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Form 8615 election for children to be taxed at parent's taxable rate does not appear to calculate properly. Where is the input to add other children unearned income?

rmlbiii
Level 1
The IRS worksheet requires that other children unearned income be add to line 2, but I can't find the input field. The parent's rate is 24% but the tax is coming out to be approximately 45% and then in the summary it says 12%. Something is screwy.
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George4Tacks
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There are some help articles https://proconnect.intuit.com/community/estimated-taxes/help/using-form-8814-or-form-8615-to-report-... has broken links that @IntuitBettyJo will put the content team on to clean up. 

To answer your question - You are in the Parents income screen, look up and a bit to the right and you will see Child - Click that and you will given a screen to add as many tabs as you need to add other childrens info and income. Capture.JPG


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TaxGuyBill
Level 15

@rmlbiii wrote:
The parent's rate is 24% but the tax is coming out to be approximately 45% and then in the summary it says 12%. Something is screwy.

Is the actual INCOME TAX increasing by 45%?  Or is that 'extra' income affecting other things on the tax return as well?  Look at all of the numbers on the 1040 and Schedules both before and after to see what exactly changes.

The summary screens can be screwy and sometimes can be misleading.  So ignore that and just look at what is on the forms.

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rmlbiii
Level 1

my client has 2 children both with only unearned income. There is no input screen to add the other child's unearned income in the worksheet, specifically line 2. I need to enter this because it will move the parent's tax bracket up. Worksheet.png

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George4Tacks
Level 15

There are some help articles https://proconnect.intuit.com/community/estimated-taxes/help/using-form-8814-or-form-8615-to-report-... has broken links that @IntuitBettyJo will put the content team on to clean up. 

To answer your question - You are in the Parents income screen, look up and a bit to the right and you will see Child - Click that and you will given a screen to add as many tabs as you need to add other childrens info and income. Capture.JPG


Here's wishing you many Happy Returns
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rmlbiii
Level 1

Fantastic! It's working. Thanks for all your support and knowledge!

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IntuitBettyJo
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thanks for pointing them out, I went ahead and removed the broken links.

Cheers! 

Betty Jo 

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George4Tacks
Level 15

@IntuitBettyJo The links looked useful. Remove instead of replace? 


Here's wishing you many Happy Returns
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IntuitBettyJo
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hi there, 

The links that were removed were related to Lacerte Tax instead of PTO.  They are still linked within the Lacerte Tax Article here: https://proconnect.intuit.com/community/tax-return/help/using-form-8814-or-form-8615-to-report-child...

-Betty Jo 

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