State Retirement Annuity Distributions
Taxpayer and Spouse are filing joint federal and Massachusetts income tax returns.The taxpayer deceased in June 2021. They are both in their mid-seventies and the taxpayer was receiving an annuity payment every month which was reported on Form 1099-R with federal income taxes withheld. There were no state income taxes withheld as the income is not taxable in Massachusetts. Every year a portion of the annuity was excluded as it was a recovery of his cost. In 2021, the spouse started receiving a monthly check and received a Form 1099-R for the total she received for the year.
My question has to do with the unrecovered cost of the annuity after the death of the taxpayer. Can the spouse deduct any of this or does it never get recovered?
