Following the advice of the last post, I entered in the health insurance premium paid with pre-tax dollars from the W2 into that box. It generated the NYS IT-225 form and is now charging the NY taxes on that health insurance money (under NY code A101 on the IT-225). From previous posts on this thread, I was under the impression that as an employee of a private company, that would not be taxed by NY.
On the federal return, I have box 14 marked as 'pre tax' and the category of 'other'.
