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April 6, 2025
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NY State Pension exclusion

  • April 6, 2025
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My client received a 1099-R from New York State Teachers' Retirement System. I entered it into her federal return. When I went over to her NYS tax return (IT-201), she thought that the entire taxable amount ($22,550) from that 1099-R would populate to line 26, which makes sense. But Proseries did not populate that line, but instead populated $20,000 on line 29. Did I miss a checkbox somewhere?

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Best answer by Giammusso

From your NYS return, go to the Pen Ann IRA Wks. Click on the pension/IRA you need to exclude and click the box that says "Qualifies for Government Exclusion." The pension amount will be excluded from the taxable income for NYS. You will need to do this for each pension you need to exclude. 

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lbones
Level 6
April 6, 2025

Yes, put a G in the state use box under the Payer State Number.  G for Government.  Then it will eliminate it from state taxes.

Camp1040
Level 10
April 6, 2025

The 1099-R needs a code G entered on the state use code, if the pension is not taxable to NYS or else only the $20K exclusion will flow to line 29.

Level 6
April 7, 2025

This does not work for me in ps prof.  I have to exclude the income on the NY return pension worksheet.  Entering G doesn't do anything.

Camp1040
Level 10
April 7, 2025

If code g is not working on the 1099-r worksheet and it 201 is only subtracting $20,000 pension exclusion then possibly that pension belongs to a teir where all of distribution are not excluded from  tax. I would read the 1099-r input screen very carefully to be sure code g is going in the correct box.

OnehandAuthor
Level 2
April 7, 2025

That's what's happening to me also, and it's still populating line 29 with $20,000

GiammussoAnswer
Level 3
April 7, 2025

From your NYS return, go to the Pen Ann IRA Wks. Click on the pension/IRA you need to exclude and click the box that says "Qualifies for Government Exclusion." The pension amount will be excluded from the taxable income for NYS. You will need to do this for each pension you need to exclude. 

OnehandAuthor
Level 2
April 7, 2025

Thank you!