Form 8615 on the kids return is generating incorrect amount of tax. Help! PTO support doesn't understand?

[kmyfinancial]

15 year old child has $7300 of unearned income. Included the income and tax from the parents 2023 return. Parents marginal rate is 35% and effective rate of 22.9%.  The childs return is showing 10% marginal and 66.2% effective. This is wrong.

[kmyfinancial]

* Correction: From the parents 2020 return.

[sjrcpa]

Work through the 8615 manually and see what is wrong. Good luck if there are qualified divs and capital gains - which may be part of the problem.

[TaxGuyBill]

The "effective" rate means nothing.  If you are looking at that, that is likely your mistake.

What is the actual AMOUNT of tax?

[kmyfinancial]

Thanks for your response. The amount of tax is $4511 on taxable income of $6813 for the 15 year child's return. 

[sjrcpa]

I thought of that, but OP says 8615 is generating incorrect amount of tax.

[TaxGuyBill]

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@kmyfinancial wrote:

Thanks for your response. The amount of tax is $4511 on taxable income of $6813 for the 15 year child's return. 

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LOL, okay, you are right, that is totally wrong (assuming that amount doesn't include any weird things like penalties or PTC repayment).   😂

As for what the problem is, unfortunately I'm not a PTO user so I can't really help you figure that out.  I hope you can figure it out soon, or perhaps somebody else will stop by with some ideas.