Publication 596 |
2000 Tax Year |
Example 3. Sharon Rose
Sharon Rose does not have a
qualifying child, and her modified AGI is too high for her to claim
the EIC.
Sharon Rose is age 63 and retired. She received $7,000 in social
security benefits during the year and $4,850 from a part-time job. She
received pension payments of $6,000. Only $5,000 of those payments are
taxable. Sharon had no other income. She lived alone in the United
States for the entire year and cannot be claimed as a dependent on
anyone else's return. She does not have any investment income and does
not have a qualifying child.
Sharon reads the steps for eligibility in her Form 1040A
instructions. In Step 3 she discovers that, because part of her
pension is not taxable, she must use Publication 596
to find out if
she can get the EIC.
To find her modified AGI, Sharon starts with her AGI of $9,850
($4,850 + $5,000), the amount on line 20 of her Form 1040A. To that
amount, she adds $1,000, the nontaxable part of her pension. The
result is her modified AGI, $10,850, which is not less than $10,380
(the limit on modified AGI for people who do not have a qualifying
child). She cannot take the EIC. She completes the rest of her Form
1040A and files it with the IRS.
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