State tax accrual
Complete all federal and state returns, verify state taxes to include, accrue taxes, recompute, and review accruals on Form 1120, Page 1, Line 17.
Accrue state taxes after all other aspects of the federal and state returns are complete.
note
Accrued state tax amounts are the state taxes minus credits (estimated and extension amounts excluded).
Accrue state tax to the federal return
- Go to .
- Verify the states you want to include taxes from on your federal return.
- Select the options to accrue the following:
- State tax
- Franchise tax
- Intangible/Other tax
- Go to theCity Tax Accrualtab and select any city taxes to accrue to the federal return.
- For taxes not calculated by the system, such as New Hampshire business enterprise tax, selectTo Accrue Other Taxesor go to theOther Taxes - Overridetab.
- Do a full recompute to process all the tax accruals.
- Review the state tax accrual at .noteThe total transfers to Form 1120, Page 1, Line 17, asAutomatically accrued state and local taxes.
Accrual options
- Accrual to the federal balance sheet is the default. The system automatically transfers the total accrual amount toOther Current Liabilitieson Form 1120, Page 5, Schedule L, Line 18.
- If you want to transfer to Schedule M-1 instead of the balance sheet:
- Go to theAccrual Optionstab and enterCurrent-year book state taxes expenseto change the option fromBalance SheettoSchedule M-1.
- If the tax accrual amount is greater than the book amount, the system transfers the excess to M-1, Line 8.
- If the book amount is greater than the tax accrual amount, the system transfers the excess to M-1, Line 5.
- If Schedule M-3 is also computed, accrual will transfer to Schedule M-3, Part III, Line 3.
- SelectDisable automatic accrualto prevent the calculation of the accrual. Use this option if you want to prevent the accrual amounts from changing on the federal and state returns.noteAny previously accrued amounts will remain on the federal and state returns.
- SelectDeactivationto remove all the information for state tax accruals. This deletes the state tax posted on the federal and state returns.
Consolidated/combined returns
In general, state tax accruals should be marked on the entity that pays the tax.
Don't mark on parent, subsidiaries, and top consolidation returns for the same state.