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Kentucky Form 740 (2025)
Your 2025 federal return, carried into Kentucky as a full-year resident. Every figure is computed in your browser from the return you have already entered, and anything this engine cannot yet figure says so at the line rather than printing a number that would be wrong.
This is a hypothetical Kentucky return, so the official layout is not offered for it. A page that looked exactly like the printed form would be mistaken for one.
Federal — Form 1040
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Kentucky — Form 740
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Form 740 — Kentucky Resident Income Tax Return
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Kentucky Department of Revenue
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- Family Size Tax Credit below the zero threshold (Schedule ITC Section C)too highKRS 141.066 · up to 100% of the Kentucky tax for a filer under the family-size threshold
- Filing Status 2 — married, filing separately on a combined returntoo highKRS 141.180 · typically $131 (the second $3,270 deduction at 4%) plus separate credit limits
- Kentucky itemized deductions (Schedule A)too highKRS 141.019(2) · the excess of Kentucky itemized deductions over $3,270, at 4%
- Kentucky National Guard personal credit ($20 per member)too highKRS 141.020(3) · $20 per qualifying member
- The Schedule ITC Section A nonrefundable creditstoo highKRS 141.067, §141.0205 · the child and dependent care credit and its siblings
- Local occupational license fees (Louisville, Lexington and others)too highKRS 68.197, §91.200 · about 1.45%–2.2% of wages in the larger jurisdictions, collected outside this return
- Credit for taxes paid to another statetoo highKRS 141.070 · out of scope by NG7 — this engine computes no multi-state allocation
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- n/aKentucky grants no exemptions; its per-person relief is a $40 credit for age 65 and a $40 credit for blindness.
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