The earlier submit State Tax-Exempt Treasury Curiosity from Mutual Funds and ETFs lined get state earnings tax exemption on the portion of mutual fund and ETF dividends which might be attributed to curiosity from Treasuries. This submit covers do the identical on the portion of fund dividends attributed to muni bond curiosity.
Muni Bond Funds and ETFs
Buyers in larger tax brackets typically put money into muni bonds of their taxable accounts. Though muni bonds sometimes have a decrease yield than Treasuries and company bonds, they typically nonetheless pay extra after-tax when the investor is in a excessive tax bracket.
Most individuals put money into muni bonds via muni bond funds and ETFs. The dealer studies fund dividends attributed to muni bond curiosity individually in Field 12 on a 1099-DIV kind.
Your tax software program is aware of about this particular field. Whether or not you import your 1099 types or enter them manually, the tax software program will robotically mark the quantity as tax-exempt for federal earnings tax.
Federal Tax-Exempt vs. State Tax-Exempt
It’s a distinct story for state earnings tax.
How a state taxes muni bond curiosity varies by state. Some jurisdictions comparable to Washington DC exempt curiosity from all muni bonds. Most states often exempt curiosity solely from muni bonds issued by entities throughout the state or in U.S. territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, and American Samoa). Some states have a reciprocal association — “We don’t tax curiosity out of your muni bonds in case you don’t tax curiosity from our muni bonds.”
It is advisable to understand how a lot of the federally tax-exempt dividends on the 1099-DIV kind can also be state tax-exempt. Your tax software program doesn’t realize it solely by the quantity on the shape.
The dealer provides a breakdown of the tax-exempt dividends by supply. It’s as much as you to find out how a lot of the federal tax-exempt dividends from every supply got here from state tax-exempt muni bonds.
Suppose you personal two funds in a taxable brokerage account that paid $2,500 in complete tax-exempt dividends as reported in Field 12 of the 1099-DIV kind. Your purpose is to fill out a desk like this with the share of state tax-exempt dividends for every fund and calculate your complete state tax-exempt dividends:
Fund | Whole Tax-Exempt Dividend | % State Tax-Exempt | State Tax-Exempt Dividend |
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Fund A | $1,500 | 100% | $1,500 |
Fund B | $1,000 | 25% | $250 |
Whole | $2,500 | $1,750 |
While you give the consequence to your tax software program, it then is aware of to exempt that portion of the federal tax-exempt dividends from state earnings tax.
State % from Fund Managers
Though the 1099-DIV kind and the dividend breakdown by funds are offered by the dealer, you’ll need to get the quantity for the “% State Tax-Exempt” column from the managers of your mutual funds and ETFs.
In case you personal Vanguard mutual funds or ETFs in a Constancy brokerage account, you get this data from Vanguard, not from Constancy. Equally, in case you personal iShares ETFs in a Charles Schwab brokerage account, you get the data from iShares, not from Charles Schwab.
Google “[name of fund management company] tax heart” to seek out the data from the fund supervisor.
For example, the Vanguard doc reveals that dividends from Vanguard New York Municipal Cash Market Fund are 100% tax-exempt in New York in 2022, and 24.24% of the dividends from the Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund got here from New York muni bonds.
Vanguard
Vanguard publishes the data in its Tax Season Calendar. Search for “Tax-exempt curiosity dividends by state.”
Constancy
Constancy publishes the data in Constancy Mutual Fund Tax Info. Search for “Tax-Exempt Earnings From Constancy Funds.”
Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab Asset Administration publishes the data in its Distributions and Tax Heart. Search for “[20xx] Supplementary Tax Info.”
iShares
iShares publishes the data in its Tax Library. Search for “[20xx] Tax Exempt Curiosity by State.”
State-Particular Necessities
You’ll want to learn the tremendous print. Simply because a fund lists a proportion in your state doesn’t imply that proportion of dividends from the fund is state tax-exempt. Some states have further necessities earlier than you may declare the tax exemption.
For example, the Vanguard tax-exempt earnings doc contains these footnotes:
California and Minnesota require funds to satisfy in-state minimal threshold to be exempt from state tax. The funds in Desk 2 don’t meet this standards [sic].
Illinois doesn’t exempt the portion of dividends from state or native obligations held not directly via a mutual fund.
This implies regardless that the desk reveals that 15.23% of the dividends from Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund got here from California muni bonds, California exempts none of it as a result of the fund didn’t meet the state’s further necessities. In case you stay in Illinois, you may’t declare any Illinois tax exemption on muni fund dividends, interval.
Tax Software program
It is advisable to give the consequence to your tax software program after you get the “% State Tax-Exempt” for every fund and calculate your State Tax-Exempt dividend with a desk like this:
Fund | Whole Tax-Exempt Dividend | % State Tax-Exempt | State Tax-Exempt Dividend |
---|---|---|---|
Fund A | $1,500 | 100% | $1,500 |
Fund B | $1,000 | 25% | $250 |
Whole | $2,500 | | $1,750 |
TurboTax
In case you enter your 1099-DIV kind manually, make sure the examine the field for extra inputs to enter tax-exempt dividends in Field 12.
Until your tax-exempt dividends got here from a state-specific fund that’s 100% tax-exempt in your state, examine the field “I earned tax exempt dividends in a couple of state” and break it down between your state and “Extra Than One State.” TurboTax will declare the portion in your state as tax-exempt in your state earnings tax return.
H&R Block
After you enter the tax-exempt dividends in Field 12 of a 1099-DIV kind, H&R Block asks you the way a lot of it is usually state tax-exempt.
FreeTaxUSA
After you enter the tax-exempt dividends in Field 12 of a 1099-DIV kind, FreeTaxUSA asks you the way a lot of it is usually state tax-exempt.
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Many of the work in calculating the quantity of fund dividends exempt from state taxes is in looking down the share of state tax-exempt earnings for every fund and ETF in your taxable brokerage account. Tax software program doesn’t realize it solely from the tax types.
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