Form 1099-G is used to report government payments like unemployment compensation and state or local income tax refunds. Learn what details are included on the form, when you should expect to receive it, and how to report this income on your tax return.
Written by a TurboTax Expert • Reviewed by a TurboTax CPAUpdated for Tax Year 2024 • August 14, 2025 10:14 AM ... Form 1099-G is used to report government payments like unemployment compensation and state or local income tax refunds.The One Big Beautiful Bill that passed includes permanently extending tax cuts from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including increasing the cap on the amount of state and local or sales tax and property tax (SALT) that you can deduct, makes cuts to energy credits passed under the Inflation Reduction Act, makes changes to taxes on tips and overtime for certain workers, reforms Medicaid, increases the Debt ceiling, and reforms Pell Grants and student loans.Box 2 of Form 1099-G shows the state or local income tax refunds, offsets, or credits you received, but these amounts typically only need to be reported if you took a federal deduction for paying those taxes in a prior year and that deduction actually reduced your federal taxes.When you prepare your 2024 tax return, you'll likely need to report some or all of the $1,500 refund as income since you took a deduction for the full $5,000 but then got $1,500 back in 2024. If your 2023 federal tax return benefited from the entire $5,000 is state taxes, then you would need to include the entire $1,500 refund.