2021 Estimated Tax Payment NY IT-2105 vouchers printed?

[grizzlyaddams]

NY IT-2105 Estimated Tax Payment vouchers were printed with my return this year after I filed my 2020 taxes with TurboTax. I have filed with TurboTax for 8 years and these have never printed. Federal vouchers did not print.

I only have W2 income from which my employer withholds my taxes. I also received a refund this year of a few hundred dollars. My tax situation has not changed in any significant way. I have owed a small amount of taxes due in past years, but was never subject to any "underpayment penalty."

Based on my situation, I do not anticipate the need to make estimated tax payments. I also do not recall electing to do so while entering my information in TurboTax, but now that they are filed, I can't go back and look through the questionnaires.

My questions being: Why would these vouchers print given my mundane circumstances? Am I obligated to pay them? Can people whose sole income is from W2 sources be subject to an underpayment penalty in NY State?

[VolvoGirl]

Did you have a tax due on your NY return?  The estimates are optional to pay.  They won't be expecting them.  You can ignore them.  Maybe you should increase your withholding at work.

[grizzlyaddams]

No, I did not have a tax due. In fact I am receiving a state refund of a few hundred dollars, making it all the more perplexing that the vouchers would print.