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"“Form 8889-T: HDHP coverage check box needs to be checked to indicate the type of coverage held under a high-deductible plan during 2023.”"
TurboTax is confused. During the Federal Review you don't show any HDHP coverage, yet you clearly have an HSA (you do, whether you think you do or not).
I assume that you did not indicate that you had an HSA (Deductions & Credits-> Medical->1099-SA, HSA, MSA). Therefore you did not go through the HSA interview. Therefore you did not positively indicate that you had no HDHP coverage.
Had you done so, I think the Review would have balked at a similar, related place.
In your case, enter "Self". If this just causes more trouble, go back to the HSA interview, tell TurboTax that you have an HSA (this is true, after all), then tell TurboTax when it asks that you had no HDHP coverage. Then continue to the end of the HSA interview (don't skip out of the interview), when if you are ask about what type of HDHP coverage you had on December 1, 2022, answer NONE.
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I see that you have a "long-term excess contribution" that is a carryover (line 46, form 5329, 2022 return). This will carry over forever and cost you money and pain until you correct it.
You can't correct a long-term carryover the same way you cure a short-term excess.
You were supposed to withdraw the original excess by the due date of the original return, but you missed that, and this short-term excess became a long-term excess that got carried over.
/* Fixing the "long-term excess" */
Sometimes, of course, the HSA is empty of dollars because they have been spent already.
In this case, the short-term excess is converted to a long-term excess and is carried over to the next year. Like for the short-term excess, the excess is added to line 8f (see above) or removed from line 13 (see above) AND a 6% penalty is charged on the amount carried over (usually).
However, you can't "cure" the long-term excess by withdrawing it in the same way as the short-term excess.
The cheapest and easiest way is to reduce the HSA contributions for the next year by the amount of the long-term excess carried over. This carryover will print on Line 2 of form 8889 as a "personal" contribution. So if you reduce your regular HSA contributions, the carryover amount will be used up and the carryover will disappear. BUT, this requires that you have gone under HDHP coverage again. If you have not and don't expect to, then read the following...
Otherwise, you have to make an HSA distribution, and when you enter the 1099-SA, say that it was not for qualified medical expenses. This will add the carryover to Other Income, and add a 20% penalty to your return.
If you don't have in hand a 1099-SA that you can modify (like one for normal medical expenses that are more than the carryover), then you will have to contact the HSA custodian to ask for a withdraw (not for excess contributions!!!), and when the 1099-SA (probably for your 2023 return in 2024) comes, you will enter it and report that the amount equal to the excess was not for medical expenses (see two paragraphs above).
But, at least the carryover will be ended.
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