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IRS Publication 525 Taxable and Non-Taxable Income: page 30Court Awards and Damages: To determine if settlement amounts you receive by compromise or judgment must be included in your income, you must consider the item that the settlement replaces. The character of the income as ordi-nary income or capital gain depends on the nature of the underlying claim. Include the folloing as ordinary income.1. Interest on any award.2. Compensation for lost wages or lost profitsin most cases.3. Punitive damages, in most cases. Itdoesn't matter if they relate to a physicalinjury or physical sickness.4. Amounts received in settlement of pensionrights (if you didn't contribute to the plan).5. Damages for:a. Patent or copyright infringement,b. Breach of contract, orc. Interference with business operations.6. Back pay and damages for emotional dis-tress received to satisfy a claim under titleVII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.7. Attorney fees and costs (including contin-gent fees) where the underlying recoveryis included in gross income.8. Attorney fees and costs relating to whistle-blower awards where the underlying re-covery is included in gross income.Don’t include in your income compensatorydamages for personal physical injury or physi-cal sickness (whether received in a lump sum orinstallments).Emotional distress. Emotional distress it-self isn't a physical injury or physical sickness,but damages you receive for emotional distressdue to a physical injury or sickness are treatedas received for the physical injury or sickness.Don’t include them in your income.If the emotional distress is due to a personalinjury that isn't due to a physical injury or sick-ness (for example, unlawful discrimination or in-jury to reputation), you must include the dam-ages in your income, except for any damagesyou receive for medical care due to that emo-tional distress. Emotional distress includesphysical symptoms that result from emotionaldistress, such as headaches, insomnia, andstomach disorders.Deduction for costs involved in unlawfuldiscrimination suits. You may be able to de-duct attorney fees and court costs paid to re-cover a judgment or settlement for a claim ofunlawful discrimination under various provisionsof federal, state, and local law listed in section62(e), a claim against the U.S. Government, ora claim under section 1862(b)(3)(A) of the So-cial Security Act. You can claim this deductionas an adjustment to income on Schedule 1(Form 1040 or 1040-SR), line 22. The followingrules apply.• The attorney fees and court costs may bepaid by you or on your behalf in connectionwith the claim for unlawful discrimination,the claim against the U.S. Government, orthe claim under section 1862(b)(3)(A) ofthe Social Security Act.• The deduction you're claiming can't bemore than the amount of the judgment orsettlement you're including in income forthe tax year.• The judgment or settlement to which yourattorney fees and court costs apply mustoccur after October 22, 2004.Pre-existing agreement. If you receivedamages under a written binding agreement,court decree, or mediation award that was in ef-fect (or issued on or before) September 13,1995, don't include in income any of those dam-ages received on account of personal injuries orsickness.Credit card insurance. In most cases, if youreceive benefits under a credit card disability orunemployment insurance plan, the benefits aretaxable to you. These plans make the minimummonthly payment on your credit card account ifyou can't make the payment due to injury, ill-ness, disability, or unemployment. Report onSchedule 1 (Form 1040 or 1040-SR), line 8, theamount of benefits you received during the yearthat is more than the amount of the premiumsyou paid during the year.Down payment assistance. If you purchasea home and receive assistance from a nonprofitcorporation to make the down payment, that as-sistance isn't included in your income. If the cor-poration qualifies as a tax-exempt charitable or-ganization, the assistance is treated as a giftand is included in your basis of the house. If thecorporation doesn't qualify, the assistance istreated as a rebate or reduction of the purchaseprice and isn't included in your basis.Employment agency fees. If you get a jobthrough an employment agency, and the fee ispaid by your employer, the fee isn't includible inyour income if you aren't liable for it. However, ifyou pay it and your employer reimburses youfor it, it’s includible in your income.Energy conservation subsidies. You can ex-clude from gross income any subsidy provided,either directly or indirectly, by public utilities forthe purchase or installation of an energy con-servation measure for a dwelling unit.Energy conservation measure. This in-cludes installations or modifications that are pri-marily designed to reduce consumption of elec-tricity or natural gas, or improve themanagement of energy demand.Dwelling unit. This includes a house,apartment, condominium, mobile home, boat,or similar property. If a building or structure con-tains both dwelling and other units, any subsidymust be properly allocated.Estate and trust income. An estate or trust,unlike a partnership, may have to pay federal in-come tax. If you're a beneficiary of an estate ortrust, you may be taxed on your share of its in-come distributed or required to be distributed toyou. However, there is never a double tax. Es-tates and trusts file their returns on Form 1041,and your share of the income is reported to youon Schedule K-1 (Form 1041).Current income required to be distrib-uted. If you're the beneficiary of an estate ortrust that must distribute all of its current in-come, you must report your share of the distrib-utable net income, whether or not you actuallyreceived it.Current income not required to be dis-tributed. If you're the beneficiary of an estateor trust and the fiduciary has the choice ofwhether to distribute all or part of the current in-come, you must report all income that is re-quired to be distributed to you, whether or notit's actually distributed, plus all other amountsactually paid or credited to you, up to theamount of your share of distributable net in-come.How to report. Treat each item of incomethe same way that the estate or trust would treatit. For example, if a trust's dividend income isdistributed to you, you report the distribution asdividend income on your return. The same ruleapplies to distributions of tax-exempt interestand capital gains.The fiduciary of the estate or trust must tellyou the type of items making up your share ofthe estate or trust income and any credits you'reallowed on your individual income tax return.Page 30 of 40 Fileid: … tions/P525/2019/A/XML/Cycle10/source 13:57 - 25-Feb-2020The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing.Page 30 Publication 525 (2019)