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Form 1040EZ is Income Tax Return for Single and Joint Filers with No Dependents. Line 2 in the Income Section of Form 1040EZ is where you enter taxable interest. Most interest that you receive and that you can withdraw is taxable income. Examples of taxable interest are interest on bank accounts, money market accuracy certificates, and credit union dividends. The payer sends this information to you on Form 1099-INT or Form 1099-OID.
USED as a part of all of your gross worldwide income that you will report on your 1040 federal income tax return. You would have some dividend income and some interest income to be reported on the tax form. Generally, dividends are taxed differently (more beneficially) than interest. Interest is ordinary income at your normal rate, which depends on your circumstances. Whereas dividends are taxed like long term capital gains rates with the max being 15%.
Qualified dividends are taxed at flat capital gains tax rate (currently 15%) while ordinary dividends are taxed as ordinary income, depending on an individual's specific tax bracket. For dividends to be considered qualified, they have to be absent form the IRS unqualified dividend list and the underlying stock that pays the dividend must be held for a specified by IRS holding period (more than 60 days during the 120-day period beginning 60 days before the ex-dividend date, and for preferred stock, the holding period is 90 days during the 180-day period beginning 90 days before the stock's ex-dividend date). Examples of dividends that do not qualify are: - Dividends paid on money market accounts - Dividends from mutual funds attributable to interest and short-term capital gains - Dividends from real estate investment trusts (REITs) - Dividends received in your IRA
The form Schedule B Interest Income and ordinary Dividends of the 1040 or 1040A income tax form. The form Schedule A Itemized Deductions of the 1040 tax form. Click on the related links
You must complete Schedule B (Form 1040), Part I, if you file Form 1040 and any of the following apply. # Your taxable interest income is more than $1,500. # You are claiming the interest exclusion under the Education Savings Bond Program (discussed earlier). # You had a foreign account or you received a distribution from, or were a granter of, or transferor to, a foreign trust. # You received interest from a seller-financed mortgage, and the buyer used the property as a home. # You received a Form 1099-INT for U.S. savings bond interest that includes amounts you reported before 2006. # You received, as a nominee, interest that actually belongs to someone else. # You received a Form 1099-INT for interest on frozen deposits. # You received a Form 1099-INT for interest on a bond that you bought between interest payment dates. # Statement (4) or (5) in the preceding list is true. On Part I, line 1, list each payer's name and the amount received from each. If you received a Form 1099-INT or Form 1099-OID from a brokerage firm, list the brokerage firm as the payer. If you received interest you must file a Form 1099-INT for that interest with the IRS. Send Copy A of Form 1099-INT with a Form 1096, Annual Summary and Transmittal of U.S. Information Returns, to your Internal Revenue Service Center by February 28, 2008 (April 2, 2008 if you file Form 1099-INT electronically). Give the one who paid the interest Copy B of the Form 1099-INT by January 31, 2008.
If you received Copy B, you report that Interest Income on your 1040.
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