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Deductions & credits
Form 5329 is created only when you did not withdraw the excess contribution before the due date of the return.
Normally, when TurboTax tells you about the excess contribution and you tell TurboTax that you will remove it, the excess is added to Other Income (so it is taxed) and that is the end of it - no 5329.
You get 5239 as Dawn said only when you tell TurboTax that you did NOT intend to withdraw the excess by the due date of the return.
NOTE: if you withdrew the excess before the due date of the return last year, then when TurboTax asks you this year if you overfunded the HSA last year, answer NO. When you withdrew the excess, you "cured" it. TurboTax should really ask "Did you carry over any excess HSA contributions from last year to this year?"
I understand you to say that you had an excess contribution of $158 in 2018, and you did not withdraw it before the due date of the return. You also do not have a form 5239 in your 2018 return.
If so, please go look at line 21 on Schedule 1 of the 1040 on your 2018 return. Is the $158 there, with a description of HSA or Health Savings Accounts or something similar? If so, you told TurboTax that you would withdraw it.
Before I go too much farther, come back and clarify this for me...
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