Income Tax Deductions for Social Security and Pension Income
Income Tax Deductions for Social
Security and Pension Income
By: Rute Pinho, Chief Analyst
April 18, 2019 | 2019-R-0098
Issue
Explain the state tax deductions for Social Security and pension and annuity income.
This report updates OLR Report 2018-R-0029. This report has been updated by OLR Report 2021R-0168.
Social Security Income
By law, Connecticut exempts from its income tax (1) Social Security income the federal government
exempts from the federal income tax and (2) depending on a taxpayer¡¯s filing status and federal
adjusted gross income (AGI), some or all of the Social Security income the federal government
taxes (CGS ¡ì 12-701(20)(B)(x)). (OLR report 2018-R-0271 explains the federal Social Security
exemption.)
In 2017, the legislature raised the income thresholds below which taxpayers can deduct 100% of
their federally-taxable Social Security income, thus extending this deduction to more taxpayers. The
new thresholds take effect in 2019, rising from (1) $50,000 to $75,000 for single filers and
married people filing separately and (2) $60,000 to $100,000 for joint filers and heads of
household. As under existing law, taxpayers with AGIs at or above these thresholds continue to
qualify for a 75% deduction (CGS ¡ì 12-701(a)(20)(B)(x)(III)).
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Pension and Annuity Income
Under a 2017 law, the income tax on pension and annuity income for taxpayers with AGIs below
specified thresholds phases out over six years, from 2019 to 2025. The thresholds are (1)
$75,000 for single filers, married people filing separately, and heads of households and (2)
$100,000 for married people filing jointly (CGS ¡ì 12-701(a)(20)(B)(xxi)).
Taxpayers with AGIs below these thresholds may deduct a percentage of their pension and annuity
income when calculating their Connecticut AGI according to the schedule shown in Table 1.
Table 1: Schedule for Deducting Percentage of
Pension and Annuity Income from Connecticut Income Taxes
Tax Year
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025 and
thereafter
Percent of Pension and Annuity Income
Exempt from Income Tax
14
28
42
56
70
84
100
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2019-R-0098
April 18, 2019
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