I work for a guy who owns two separate CA-based companies, and I live in California and work the same job for both of them. For tax purposes, both of them are consolidated on my W-2 under a third-party payroll company, which has its own ID number in box b, along with its own name and address in box c. But I have two lines each for boxes 15-17, because the companies I work for have separate employer's state ID numbers in box 15.
The problem is that TurboTax won't let me input two separate entries with the same state for both of them. It tells me to delete a line, saying that "The state in box 15 should only appear once." But I can't do that. The reality is that I actually have two lines that start with "CA" on box 15 with two different ID numbers, and two different amounts each for boxes 16-17. I've previously filed the exact same way with TurboTax and had no issues, but it won't let me do it this year.
I've already paid the $89 and ran into this roadblock at the very end. Very frustrating. How do we get around this problem?
