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The official IRS guidance for tax year 2025 regarding standard deductions for individuals 65 or older and for blindness, including recent legislation creating a temporary senior bonus.
For tax year , the official guidance says the additional for being age 65 or blind is claimed by marking the appropriate age/blindness boxes on the 1040 (or 1040‑SR) and is folded into the standard de...
The and Form 1040‑SR explicitly place the standard deduction amount on line 12 of page 2, and the form uses a set of checkboxes (on line 12d) to capture age‑65 and blindness adjustments whose count fe...
Dependents calculate their as the greater of a flat $1,350 or their , but that result cannot exceed the regular standard deduction for their filing status (single, head of household, married filing jo...
The age and blindness checkboxes on Form 1040-SR are the declarative triggers that tell the (and ) to apply the (ASD) amounts for taxpayers 65+ and/or legally blind; the form’s built‑in Standard Deduc...
The deduction for tax year provides up to $6,000 per eligible taxpayer and is subject to a : the full bonus is available for single filers with MAGI up to $75,000 and for married couples filing jointl...