M298
Returning Member

Retirement tax questions

Hi, yes, all of the amounts in 2, 4, 6, and 17 (i.e. federal, state and FICA taxes) were withheld from the lump-sum payment made to me in 2019.  It seems that the employer (not my current one) decided to report the FICA taxes withheld while the plan administrator reported the federal and state taxes that were withheld.  It probably would be easier to not include the employer W-2 (with FICA withholdings).  However, I have already reached my limit on SS tax withholdings with my current employer. Therefore, my taxes would be reduced by the excess taxes paid to SS. 

 

I entered both W-2 forms and did not receive an error when I ran the federal review.  However, if TurboTax will not allow efiling if one W-2 does not include box 1, that would be a real problem.  It would argue to take the FICA taxes from one W-2 and just combine it with information from the other W-2 but not sure if that would also be problematic.