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Form 1120 was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 17 July 2016 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into IRS tax forms. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Links to IRS forms

I added links to the the official IRS forms on IRS.gov but they were removed. Does anyone think it would be a good idea to link each of the forms to the pdf of the same form on IRS.gov? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrfray (talk • contribs) 16:18, 27 November 2014 (UTC) Jrfray (talk) 16:20, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely not - Wikipedia is not an internet directory. Per WP:EL, it's simply not appropriate to have external links throughout the body of the article. The article already has a link in the external links section that points to http://www.irs.gov/ from which there's a clear link at the top pointing to forms and publications. It might make sense to refine that link to instead point to the appropriate sub-page at http://www.irs.gov/Forms-&-Pubs - but that's the extent of linking that would be appropriate here. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:23, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Extremely incorrect description of Schedule 2

I stumbled across the section of this article describing the purpose of Schedule 2 being "to report certain other types of income, such as a child's unearned income" which struck me as startlingly incorrect, to the point where I pulled up the archived IRS documents from 2018 to search for that fiscal's year's treatment of such earnings, which as far as I can find are to be reported on form 8814, which in turn is reported on Schedule 1 line 21.

The Schedule 2 document for 2018 was an extremely short document simply titled "Tax", with boxes only for alternative minimum tax, and excess advance premium tax credit repayment. It has never had anything to do with reporting income, only the unusual or additional taxes on income. I changed this description to read "to report additional taxes owed, such as alternative minimum tax, advance premium tax credit repayment, self-employment taxes, and taxes on IRAs" the second two items being true of the modern (2021) version.

I only write this in the talk page because what I wrote is so different from what was originally there that I fear I have missed something. Was there some historical reason that Schedule 2 was supposed to be about unearned child's income, or was Schedule 2 the name of an older document that was confused for the 1040 Schedule 2?

edit: I read the Motley Fool source for this portion of the article, and it appears the source article is incorrect but not quite as incorrect as what was written here.

WillisHershey (talk) 21:08, 21 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]