Question
How do I record a decedent's income when it comes two years after death?
Folks:
Wife died at end of 2020. In 2021 employer remitted funds to Wife and issued a 1099-MISC. Box three is titled "Beneficiary/Estate payments, etc." but the recipient is Wife and the listed recipient SSN is Wife's. Therefore, I thought to include it on Husband's return with wife as deceased. But Lacerte tells me that Wife's date of death must be 2021 or 2022. Do I put this on a return for the estate?
Wife died at end of 2020. In 2021 employer remitted funds to Wife and issued a 1099-MISC. Box three is titled "Beneficiary/Estate payments, etc." but the recipient is Wife and the listed recipient SSN is Wife's. Therefore, I thought to include it on Husband's return with wife as deceased. But Lacerte tells me that Wife's date of death must be 2021 or 2022. Do I put this on a return for the estate?
