File your Pennsylvania taxes online with your federal return

How your Pennsylvania return is prepared

• Answer the interview once. Your Pennsylvania return uses the same answers as your federal return, plus a few Pennsylvania questions such as your school district.
• We e-file your federal return to the IRS.
• We prepare your Pennsylvania return on the Department of Revenue's own forms, with the schedules your answers need.

The Pennsylvania forms we prepare

Your return is Form PA-40, whether you lived in Pennsylvania all year, part of the year, or not at all. Pennsylvania figures its tax by class of income, so the schedules your answers need are added with it: Schedules A and B for interest and dividends, Schedule C for a business, Schedule D for sales of property, Schedule E for rents and royalties, Schedule UE for unreimbursed work expenses, and Schedule NRH when wages must be split between Pennsylvania and another state.

If you owe Pennsylvania, we prepare the PA-40 V payment voucher with your return.

Pennsylvania credits we figure for you

• Tax Forgiveness (Schedule SP), which can reduce or erase Pennsylvania tax for lower-income households.
• The Child and Dependent Care Enhancement Tax Credit (Schedule DC), figured from your federal child and dependent care credit.
• The resident credit for tax paid to another state (Schedule G-L).

Your Pennsylvania refund comes by check

Your Pennsylvania refund comes as a check; the PA-40 has no Direct Deposit box. Your federal refund can come by Direct Deposit.

What is not on the PA-40

Your local earned income tax is filed on a separate local return with your local tax collector, not on the PA-40, and we do not prepare it. The Philadelphia wage tax is not part of the PA-40 either.

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