Deductions & credits

OK I worked these through this morning.

 

Adding the $4000 to Misc Income increases my Fed/State tax by $1400 or 35% of $4000 which is my marginal total tax rate so that looks good.

 

Adjusting the -$4000 in the HSA contribution section lowers my tax by $182 Fed and $372 State, I guess I was expecting my taxes to go up when I made this change as I now have a lower deduction?

 

Another minor wrinkle is that I still show $700 of excess employer contribution to be withdrawn which is a carryover from the my original return before we made these two adjustments so I somehow need to correct that.

 

Thanks for helping me walk through all this.

 

Trevor.