dmertz
Level 15

Retirement tax questions

Elaborating on the nature of the contribution, by default the HSA custodian must treat and report the contribution as a current-year contribution unless you explicitly indicated that the contribution was for the prior year by whatever method they require for making a prior-year contribution.  Since it's now well past the deadline for making an HSA contribution for 2017, it's too late to treat the contribution you made as anything other than a contribution for 2018.