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Maryland – Reporting Tax Exempt Military Income on Form MD502

If you are a nonresident military taxpayer with ONLY military income, and you are filing a joint resident return with a civilian spouse, you can enter your tax exempt military income as follows:

  1. From within your TaxACT return (Online of Desktop) click on the State Q&A and then click Maryland directly below the blue tabs
  2. Click on Basic Information to expand that category then click Residency
  3. Select Full-year resident
  4. Click Maryland again
  5. Click Miscellaneous Topics to expand the category and then click Military Information 
  6. On the screen titled Maryland – Non-Maryland Military Income enter your tax exempt military income and click Continue
  7. Select ONLY military income filing a joint resident return with a civilian spouse with any income and click Continue
  8. Enter the amount in either Taxpayer’s nonresident military income or Spouse’s nonresident military income and click Continue

This will transfer the amount to Line 7 on Maryland Form 502.