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The recipient doesn’t have to pay taxes on the payments, meaning alimony is no longer taxable. If your divorce was finalized before the end of 2018, you may qualify for an alimony tax deduction if:
Under the old, pre-2019 alimony tax rule, filers could deduct alimony payments on their Form 1040, and recipients had to include alimony as income, provided that the payments were made in cash ...
For tax purposes, alimony payments are effectively not part of the payor’s income. If your divorce settlement was established on or after Jan. 1, 2019, the person making the alimony payments ...
In divorces and separation agreements signed on December 31, 2018 and earlier, alimony is tax-deductible for the payer, and treated as taxable income for the recipient. Pursuant to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, for divorce judgments dated January 1, 2019 and later, spousal support is treated as not-taxable and non-deductible for either party.
Alimony has two important tax statuses. If you finalized your divorce before Jan. 1, 2019, the person who collects alimony pays taxes on this money. This means that the person who pays alimony can ...
Alimony paid to a former spouse will no longer be deductible by the payer, and alimony payments will no longer be included in the recipient's gross income. This effectively shifts the tax burden of alimony from the recipient to the payer, increases the amount of tax collected on the income transferred as alimony, and simplifies the audit trail ...
Gould—that alimony was not taxable to the recipient under the Revenue Act of 1913—was overturned by a subsequent Act of Congress, the current version of which is found in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 at 26 U.S.C. § 71.
Child support payments are never considered taxable income for the recipient and are never tax deductible for the payer. Alimony is also not tax deductible for the payer or taxed as income for ...