Thank you @Vanessa A for the reply on this. In my case box 3 has 0 (all boxes except for box 12 have 0) so if I enter the amount from box 12 to line 1 this will certainly get around the eFile issue, but how do I know that this won't flag my return since the amount will not match the actual W2? And is this actually better than entering $1 instead since in both cases the amount will not match?
The only other option is to not enter the W2 at all (we don't qualify for EIC anyway). I am not sure which of the 3 options is the correct way to handle this and not flag my return.
Editing my reply above since I tried this and it doesn't work correctly. By entering the amount from box 12 to box 1 it ends up adding this amount on Line 1a and also line 1d (from the Box 12 code II) so it counts the amount twice. So even though it gets subtracted on Line 8, my Total Income is increased.
I see the new reply from @KrisD15 indicating that I can exclude the W2 since I don't claim EIC and the IRS won't care. It would be nice to get a consensus from the different Tax Experts in this thread if this is the best way to handle this.
I also just realized that my situation is different than the other posters in this thread who do want to claim EIC so for those people they might still be stuck.
