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Montana Form 2 (2025)
Your 2025 federal return, carried into Montana 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 Montana 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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Montana — Form 2
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Refund or amount owednot computed — not your resident state
Form 2 — Montana Resident Income Tax Return
A working replica. Not a Montana Department of Revenue form and not for filing.
Montana Department of Revenue
Tax year 2025
Tax year 2025
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Capital gain tax
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- The limited state income tax add-back when itemizing (Schedule I line 4)too low§15-30-2131 MCA · the state income tax inside federal itemized deductions, but only the part above the federal standard deduction; nil for the standard-deduction filer
- Montana itemized deductionstoo high§15-30-2131 MCA · the excess of federal itemized deductions over the standard amount
- Interest on United States obligations (Schedule I line 9)too high§15-30-2110(2) MCA · the Treasury share of taxable interest, at up to 5.9%
- Montana-source municipal interest excluded from the line 1 addbacktoo high§15-30-2110(1) MCA · the Montana-issuer share of tax-exempt interest, at up to 5.9%
- Exempt tribal income, military salary and the working-military subtractiontoo high§15-30-2110(2) MCA · 100% of qualifying tribal or active-duty military income
- Montana Medical Savings Account, First-Time Homebuyer, education and ABLE accountstoo high§15-61-202, §15-63-202 MCA · the contributions and account earnings subtracted; nil for a filer with none
- Montana earned income tax credit and the elderly homeowner/renter credittoo high§15-30-2318, §15-30-2337 MCA · 10% of the federal earned income credit, refundable; up to $1,150 of elderly credit
- The Schedule III nonrefundable creditstoo high§15-30-2301 et seq. MCA · the college contribution, adoption, energy and other credits
- Short-term gain and the Schedule D netting behind the line 2 figuredirection unknown§15-30-2103(2) MCA · nil inside the simple-return envelope, where the only capital gain is a 1099-DIV box 2a distribution and the booklet directs the filer to Form 1040 line 7
- Nonqualified withdrawals and recoveries added back on Schedule Itoo low§15-30-2110(1) MCA · the withdrawal or recovery; nil for a filer with none
What this Montana return is not telling you
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