Arizona Form 140a - Resident Personal Income Tax Return (Short Form) - 2011 Page 23

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Form 140A
line 12, is $25,000 or less. If you are single or married filing
household income was under $5,501.
To see what
a separate return, you may take this credit if the amount on
income is included in household income, see the Form
Form 140A, page 1, line 12, is $12,500 or less.
140PTC instructions.
To figure your credit, complete the following worksheet.
Complete Form 140PTC to figure your credit. Enter the
amount from Form 140PTC, page 1, line 15.
Do not complete the following worksheet if you are
claiming the property tax credit on Form 140PTC. Use Form
Attach Form 140PTC to your return.
140PTC to figure both the credit for increased excise taxes
Tax Tip: To claim a property tax credit, you must file your
and the property tax credit. If you are claiming both the
claim or extension request by April 17, 2012. You cannot
credit for increased excise taxes and the property tax credit,
claim this credit on an amended return if you file the
enter the increased excise tax credit from Form 140PTC,
amended return after the due date of your return.
page 1, line 17, here and enter the property tax credit from
Form 140PTC, page 1, line 15, on line 35.
Figuring Your Overpayment or Tax Due
Credit for Increased Excise Taxes Worksheet
Check one
Line 37 - Tax Due
Yes
No
If line 31 is more than line 36, you have tax due. Subtract
If you checked filing status 4 or 5, is
line 36 from line 31. Skip line 38.
the amount on Form 140A, page 1,
line 12, $25,000 or less?
Line 38 - Overpayment
If line 36 is more than line 31, subtract line 31 from line 36.
If you checked filing status 6 or 7, is
the amount on Form 140A, page 1,
line 12, $12,500 or less?
Making Voluntary Gifts
You can make voluntary gifts to each of the funds shown
If you checked no, STOP. You do not qualify for
below. A gift will reduce your refund or increase the amount
this credit. If you checked yes, complete the rest of
due with your return.
this worksheet.
1. Enter the number of dependents you
NOTE: If you make a gift, you cannot change the amount of
entered on Form 140A, page 1, box 10,
that gift later on an amended return.
excluding persons listed on Page 2,
line A3a. Also exclude any dependent
Line 39 - Aid to Education Fund
that is not an Arizona resident.
Gifts go to the Arizona Assistance for Education Fund. The
2.
Number of personal exemptions. If you
Arizona Board of Education will distribute money in this
checked filing status 4, enter the
fund to school districts.
number 2 here. If you checked filing
If you make a contribution to the Aid to
status 5, 6, or 7, enter the number 1 here.
CAUTION:
Education Fund, you must contribute your entire refund.
3.
Add lines 1 and 2. Enter the result.
You may not give more than or less than your entire refund.
4. Multiply the amount on line 3 by $25.
Line 40 - Arizona Wildlife Fund
Enter the result.
You may give some or all of your refund to the Arizona
5. Maximum credit.
$100
00
Wildlife Fund. You may also give more than your entire
6. Enter the smaller of line 4 or line 5
refund.
here and also on Form 140A, page 1,
line 34.
Your gift to the Arizona Wildlife Fund helps protect wildlife
in the state. Many species like bald eagles, Apache trout and
NOTE: The credit cannot exceed $100 per household. Do not
black-footed ferrets benefit from your gifts to this fund. Gifts
claim this credit if someone else in your household has already
are also used to improve areas for watching wildlife statewide.
claimed $100 of the credit. If someone else in your household has
Line 41 - Citizens Clean Elections Fund
claimed less than $100, you may claim the credit as long as all
You may give some or all of your refund to the Citizens
credit claims filed from your household do not exceed $100.
Clean Elections Fund. You may also send in additional
money with your return. If you send in additional money
Line 35 - Property Tax Credit
with your return, include that amount on line 53. Enter the
You may take the property tax credit if you meet all the
amount you want to donate on line 41.
following.
If you make a donation to the fund with your 2011 return,
1.
You were either 65 or older in 2011 or, if under age 65, you
that you file in 2012, you may claim a credit for that
were receiving SSI Title 16 income from the Social
donation on your 2012 return.
Security Administration.
The Citizens Clean Elections Fund provides funding to each
NOTE: SSI Title 16 income is not the normal Social
participating candidate who qualifies for campaign funding.
Security disability.
Line 42 - Child Abuse Prevention Fund
2. You were an Arizona resident for the full year in 2011.
You may give some or all of your refund to the Arizona Child
3. You paid property tax on your Arizona home in 2011.
Abuse Prevention Fund. You may also give more than your
You paid rent on taxable property for the entire year or
entire refund.
you did a combination of both.
Gifts go to the Arizona Child Abuse Prevention Fund. This
4. If you lived alone, your total household income was
fund provides financial aid to community agencies for child
under $3,751.
If you lived with others, the total
abuse prevention programs.
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