TurboTax continued to generate the error message until I truncated the employer name to 30 characters. I backed it off one character at a time starting with 35 until it stopped producing the error. On the screen where the W2 info is entered TurboTax has a help link next to the employer field. When clicked the message it produces is " How should I enter my employer's name?
Enter your employer's name and info exactly as it appears on your W-2.
The IRS will compare your employer's name with what's in their database and can reject your return if it doesn't match."
This is counter to what is needed to get Turbo Tax to accept the employer name without producing error messages. TurboTax should change the help text to guide the user to an error free data entry experience, should auto truncate the employer name as needed to avoid the error message, and should reconcile the idea that the software is demanding a truncated version with the advice in the product that the IRS will reject your return if the field is modified to make the TurboTax software errors go away.
