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Deductions & credits
The medical FSA reporting is easy - you don't report anything about the medical FSA. Really.
If you had a dependent care FSA, then the amount that your employer set aide (and withdrew from your Wages) should have been entered in box 10. You will have to ask your employer why it isn't there.
The $3,750 in reimbursement should have come out of that box 10 amount.
However, the fact that you got a $600 credit suggests that your return is not right.
You get a 20% credit for money spent on child care up to $3,000 for one child. $3,000 times 2% equals $600.
However, contributions to your FSA are removed from this $3,000. This did not happen because there is no entry in box 10. So you really need to ask your employer to what happened to your dependent care FSA and box 10. It sounds like you should have had zero credit.
Note that if your employer gives you a corrected W-2 with the FSA contribution, then your credit will go away. This is because instead of a credit, you get a deduction for the FSA contribution (actually, it's removed from Wages in Box 1).
So if you were in the 22% tax bracket (so your marginal tax rate is 22%), this "deduction" would be $3,000 times 22% = $660 in tax reduction.
Sorry, the rest of the money you spend on child care is lost as far as tax benefits are concerned.
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