1. Yes dmertz is absolutely right (sorry you’re still having trouble taxpayer450 something in 2019, it should work).
2. I’m writing to warn others this is a very poor interface point with the Turbo tax program, I spent 2 1/2 hours making a test return to see if I put something in wrong, and then contacting her account to have him explain to me what dmertz explains. It took the 2hrs because there’s a bit more than what dmertz says. When it takes OFF the additional tax that get added for what you know should be a tax deduction (!), it does so a a weird rate, not yours, not anyone’s. It took mine off at some rate in between mine and the next higher one. This was fine with me since it initially taxed my HSA tax deduction at around that same weird “rate”, which isn’t a tax rate. It’s some legitimate rate I’m sure - like a tax that gets applied to what should be a deduction in the first place - but they don’t bother to explain
Since HSA’s are so common, I think TurboTax should change it to where when you put in your W2 HSA amount instead they should leave the tax amount alone and tell you that later it will determine if it’s a tax deduction, which for most filers, pretty much all filers, it will be.
