Thank you for the reply, but that didn't work. I do have earnings in NY; however, the w2 put all of my earnings with AZ and put New York on a separate w2 without any income. No matter what I did Turbotax kept giving me errors for the federal and NY taxes.
In the end I had to move everything into a single w2, add NY as a second state and misrepresent the item in box 14 as some NY code that leads to the correct result, but is not an appropriate answer. The TurboTax software pretty much forced me to choose that option as it wouldn't accept anything else. I was forced to choose some NY 414(H) something or another to get past the error when the code should have been other. I guess it could have fallen under NY 125 SEC, but TurboTax wouldn't let me move ahead.
The system is buggy it should be fixed. In short I had to put it in as untaxable contributions to a public pension fund of which I am not part of instead of correctly as the pretax benefit contribution that isn't taxable.
