BillM223
Expert Alumni

Get your taxes done using TurboTax

"It came back and asked for me to I put the information from a job I worked in 2018 so I added that information. "

 

OK, so you say that TurboTax asked you to enter a W-2 from 2018?

 

When you enter TurboTax for the first time for a given year, you are given the option to carry over tax information from the previous year, to save you some typing.

 

Generally, the text from W-2s and 1099s is carried over but the dollar amounts are not because these typically change each year.

 

If you have a W-2 that is carried over to your 2020 return that refers to a job that you did not have in 2020, then please delete that W-2.

 

To do that, please do a Search (upper right) for w-2 and click on the jump-to link (Mac users must find W-2 in the Topics List).

 

This should show you a table of W-2 entries. Look (edit) the various entries until you can identify the obsolete one. Then use the Back button to back up until you see the table again, and use the Delete button or the trash can icon to delete the W-2 that you no longer need.

 

And if you filed your 2020 return with this 2018 W-2 information, then you will need to amend your return.

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