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Why are teaspoon loans reported as taxable income?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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A tsp loan is not taxable income unless:

1 you default on the loan,

2 you miss a payment,

3 you retire or leave the federal service before the balance is paid off.

In any of the scenarios above it is only the unpaid balance that is taxable.

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