Hi,
Thanks for this. I did some calculations based on what you commented. Please read below.
Yes, I had two employers. One gave me a W-2 with CAVPDI mentioned in box 14. The second one gave me a W-2 with CASDI mentioned in box 19. 🙂
For the first employer, since W-2 mentions CAVPDI in box 14, I followed that itself in Turbotax.
For the second employer, if I follow what they did (i.e keep box 14 blank and enter the box 19 number in box 19 itself), then the tax refund is less.
Instead, if I enter the box 19 number into box 14 of TurboTax, I get a higher tax refund.
Extra tax refund on doing this = CAVPDI (box 14) from Employer #1 + CASDI (box 19) from Employer #2 - 1539.58
Also, box 19 value doesn't seem to be doing anything. The CA tax refund depends on box 14 value, but it stays the same irrespective of box 19 contents.
