Paying state estimated taxes and having a payment plan to pay your state taxes are not the same thing.
Typically, when you have a payment plan to pay state (or Federal) taxes, you are making regular payments to pay off a balance due of taxes owed for a prior tax year (2022 or earlier).
Making estimated payments during the year is a form of pre-paying the taxes for the current tax year. For example, estimated payments made during 2023 are pre-paying some of your income tax during the year. This is usually required when you do not have taxes withheld from a paycheck from being an employee.
Either of these types of payments may be included as part of your tax return, but they are reported in different places depending on which type of payment you made.
To go to the section of the tax return to enter the state taxes that you paid during the year, use these steps:
- On the top row of the TurboTax online screen, click on Search (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax locate the search box in the upper right corner)
- This opens a box where you can type in “state taxes paid” (be sure to enter exactly as shown here) and click the magnifying glass (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax, click Find)
- The search results will give you an option to “Jump to state taxes paid”
- Click on the blue “Jump to state taxes paid” link to enter your information
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