I have a question that I believe I already know the answer to but I'd like to hear from other people about it. When I was applying for disability, which I just received two years ago, I talk to a tax person about whether it is considered taxable income and I was told that straight disability was not as it was from previously taxed earnings. Unless I received a document from Social Security showing that it needed to go on my taxes.
We went ahead and did our taxes for 2017 and didn't include my disability because for one, I didn't receive anything that would show I had to put it on my taxes. Yesterday though, over a year later, we get a letter from the IRS stating that the money from disability that I received in 2017 should have been put on my tax form and that because it wasn't they redid our taxes and we owe $2,100.
My husband mistakenly included my disability income when doing our taxes this year even though he had no clue exactly how much I made because my amount had gone up a couple times during the year, basically he guesstimated it. I'm wondering if that's why they went back to 2017 and included my disability??
I already plan to get ahold of a tax person next week but I thought I'd throw it out there for now since it's a holiday weekend and I can't talk to them until Tuesday.
Thanks for any thoughts you guys would have on this!
We went ahead and did our taxes for 2017 and didn't include my disability because for one, I didn't receive anything that would show I had to put it on my taxes. Yesterday though, over a year later, we get a letter from the IRS stating that the money from disability that I received in 2017 should have been put on my tax form and that because it wasn't they redid our taxes and we owe $2,100.
My husband mistakenly included my disability income when doing our taxes this year even though he had no clue exactly how much I made because my amount had gone up a couple times during the year, basically he guesstimated it. I'm wondering if that's why they went back to 2017 and included my disability??
I already plan to get ahold of a tax person next week but I thought I'd throw it out there for now since it's a holiday weekend and I can't talk to them until Tuesday.
Thanks for any thoughts you guys would have on this!
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