Quoting Tom Young from above:
TurboTax calculates the compensation in the same fashion that your employer does: (GROSS number of shares vesting) x (per share fair market value at vesting date). So if you had a vesting of, say, 100 shares and sold stock twice out of that vesting, you more than likely entered "100" in the "Total Shares/Vested Released" for each sale and TurboTax doesn't know that you're referring to the same vesting. So it calculates the compensation on two vestings of 100 shares, doubling your actual compensation figure.
If you want to continue to use the "RSU step by step" interview - it's not really necessary to use that interview for any "income tax reporting" reason - then go back and reduce the number of shares in the two "Total Shares/Vested Released" boxes so that there's enough shares in the box to cover each sale and the total of those two boxes adds up to 100 shares. Also, leave the "Shares Withheld (Traded) to Pay Taxes" blank.
That should work for you.
Tom Young
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