Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxj.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!whuxj!wjm From: wjm@whuxj.UUCP (MITCHELL) Newsgroups: net.taxes Subject: Re: No Double Taxation Message-ID: <139@whuxj.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 16:55:38 EST Article-I.D.: whuxj.139 Posted: Tue Feb 28 16:55:38 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Feb-84 14:38:12 EST Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J. Lines: 9 No, you are not being taxed twice when you report state income tax refunds as income, since you SUBTRACTED the tax you paid (which included the refund) from your income the previous year. When you report it the following year, you pay tax on it for the FIRST time. You do NOT report a state income tax refund as income if you did NOT deduct the tax the year before (e.g. you took the standard deduction. Bill Mitchell Bell Communications Research, Inc. Whippany, NJ (whuxj!wjm)