@geyergirls Yes, assuming you spent all of 2023 in a community property state(s), the income and withholding for Fed, SS, Medicare, State, and local is divided equally in half on the W2. Yes, you put YOUR name on the spouse's W2 in your return, and vise versa in your spouse's return for your W2s. For Boxes 7-15 (16-20 is handled same as 1-6), you should still divide these by half since, for instance, it helps to show why you may have a different Box 1 from Box 3 and 5, but generally 7-15 don't affect final tax calculations so it is not as critical. Yes, Turbotax completed Form 8958 and e-Filed for me but only after I, myself had to spend countless hours also figuring out how Turbotax wanted me to enter it into its program. If you mess with the first 2 screens of the Community Property Section, it will do screwy things to your final calculations or make you paper file. But if you just have wages, interest, or other common income, leave those first 2 screens blank and fill out the remaining screens. It seems the software engineers and the Turbtotax advisers didn't communicate well on this section and we were left to fend for ourselves with so many generic answers out there. Finally, just remember that the Community Property Section in Turbotax (which is what completes the 8959) will have you confirm your and your spouse's allocations. It does require some tweaking since it doesn't know what your spouse's allocations are; it only knows yours since you altered the W2 and 1099s when you entered them. Make sure the sum of your and your spouse's allocations equals the total that should match the original unaltered W2 or 1099.
Hope this answers your question.
