Box 13 – This box has 3 check boxes in it: Statutory
Employee, Retirement Plan, and Third Party Sick Pay. These boxes will be
checked or left unchecked by your employer. If it's checked, you also check the Box in TurboTax, if it's unchecked, leave it blank.
A statutory employee is
someone who is treated like an employee but didn’t have any taxes
withheld from their paycheck (this occurs frequently with employees who
are 100% commission). Having the “Retirement Plan” box checked means you
had access to a retirement plan such as 401k at work, which may limit your ability to get tax incentives for other retirement plans like an IRA.
Third-party sick pay means that you received payments for sick time
from a company other than the one that employed you, such as their
insurance company. Generally those payments were not included in the
wages on your W-2.
