@akay
"Just an odd question and kind of confusing."
It was added as a necessary question when employers started doing things not foreseen by the original HSA code.
"Trying to figure out if these contributions even need to be reported in turbotax."
Yes, they do, because the aggregate of contributions to your HSA must be less than or equal to your annual HSA contribution limit, which requires TurboTax to have you enter ALL contributions.
"Does form 8889 need to match form 5498? Or is it ok if they look different??"
No, the 8889 does not need to match the 5498-SA from any given year. This is because the 8889 is pretty much focused on the current tax year which the 5498-SA has items from multiple tax years. Don't worry about the 5498-SA - just stick it in your tax file.
@vhomer1977
"made a contribution of $5400 (is this considered employer contribution since it is pretaxed and so does it go on line 9 of form 8889. "
Does the $5,400 refer to an HSA premium or something else? If it came from your employer, then it is an employer contribution.
"Then does the $1800 go on line 10 as qualified hsa distributions. "
Where did this $1,800 come from? Was this a direct contribution to the HSA custodian? We need some context here.
But I can say that it does not belong on line 10 because that is for Qualified HSA funding distributions, which are a direct transfer from your IRA administrator to your HSA custodian - and I am betting that this is not what you did. Is this $1,800 is supposed to be a direct contribution to your HSA? If so, then it belongs on line 2.
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