The entry in the federal column transfers from the federal 1099R screen New Jersey allows for the general rule worksheet calculation, therefore, an entry made for the general or simplified method at the federal level is used to calculate the general rule for New Jersey purposes. If
1
or
2
is entered in this field, entries in the
Investment or cost in contract, Expected return
and
Investment recovered in the past
fields are necessary to complete the calculation on the New Jersey Pension Taxability Worksheet. If amounts were entered in this screen in a prior year, amounts from the prior year Pension Taxability Worksheet will proforma into the New Jersey column. Any changes should be made in the New Jersey column for calculations on the current year Pension Taxability Worksheet. A diagnostic message informs you that more data entry may be needed if the simplified method was used at the federal level. New Jersey still allows the 3 year rule calculation method in certain circumstances. Enter
3
to have the taxable portion of the distribution calculated using the 3 year rule. If
3
is entered in this field, entries in the
Investment or cost in contract, First periodic payment amount,
and
Investment recovered in the past
fields are necessary to complete the calculation on the New Jersey Pension Taxability Worksheet. If there are no amounts in this section or in the New Jersey forced taxable amount, then the taxable amount calculated on Form NJ-1040NR is limited to the federal taxable amount.