MinhT1
Employee Tax Expert

Retirement tax questions

You must include the excess deferral in your income for 2024.

 

What you earned will be covered by a 1099-R for the following tax year and will be entered then as a normal 1099-R in 2025.

 

Below is how to do this in TurboTax Online:

 

  1. Click on Federal in the left-hand column, then on Wages & Income
  2. Navigate to the list of income categories
  3. Locate the section Less Common Income
  4. Select Miscellaneous Income and click Start
  5. Select Other income not already reported on a Form W-2 or Form 1099 and click on Start
  6. Answer the question "Did you receive any other wages?  Yes
  7. Click through the questions till you get to Any Other Earned Income
  8. Answer Yes to Did you earn any other wages?
  9. Indicate Other as Source of Other Earned Income and click Continue
  10. For the description enter "2024 Excess 401K Deferrals" and click on Done

 

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