Student instructions:
Please use IRS Publication 575, California 540A / 540 Booklet and California Publication FTB 1005 to complete this topic.
Prepare Form 1040, Form 4972 , California Form 540, Schedule CA (540), and California Schedule G-1.
Greg, who was born in 1938, retired from Two-Seas Corporation in 2007. He withdrew the entire amount to his credit from the company's qualified pension plan. In December 2007, he received a total distribution of $180,000 ($25,000 of employee contributions plus 155,000 of employer contributions and earnings on all contributions). The payer gave Greg a Form 1099-R, which shows the capital gain part of the distribution (the part attributable to participation before 1974) to be $12,000. Greg elects the capital gain treatment for federal and California.
Greg elects to figure the tax on the ordinary income part using the 10-year tax option for federal and California.
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