Sorry if this is a duplicate post - I find the community forum difficult to navigate!
I have received an incorrect W-2 for 2024 from a former employer with a large credit amount in Other Pretax/Wage Limit - this results in Box1 being 50% lower than what it should be.
In June 2024 I requested payroll to stop federal withholding (because I take the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion) which they did; I had done the same thing in July 2023 and the W-2 for 2023 was correct with nothing in the Other Pretax/Wage Limit section. TurboTax calculates the correct federal tax due when I completed the FEIE section.
I have asked the former employer (now acquired by a different company) for a corrected W-2; they contacted Dayforce (the payroll software provider) to confirm the W-2 is correct -- Dayforce confirmed the W-2 is corrected "based on the employee's withholdings". If I use the W-2 provided I will get a large refund; if I use the numbers on my last paystub for 2024 I owe a large amount; I want to file my taxes correctly but I don't know how to do that - use the W-2 provided or try to figure out the correct numbers from my last paycheck?
