I really appreciate the in depth follow up. After numerous calls, I was able to get them to return my calculation of earnings on the excess contributions for both 2025 and 2026. My calculation ...
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I really appreciate the in depth follow up. After numerous calls, I was able to get them to return my calculation of earnings on the excess contributions for both 2025 and 2026. My calculation worked out fine I think because the $2,150 excess 2025 contribution was removed on 3/2 and the $900 excess 2026 contribution was removed by my employer today 3/4. Since I do not have access to daily balances, just beginning and end month balances from statements, I am using values from 2/27/26 to calculate the adjusted closing balance. I calculated $348.79 for 2025 & $20.32 in 2026 for the earnings. My questions are now the following: 1) Are both the $2,150 of excess 2025 contributions and the $348.79 of earnings on those contributions to be reported as other income in 2025? Or just the $2,150 as other income in 2025 and the $348.79 as income in 2026? I am seeing conflicting information on this. 2) Irrespective of the above, how will I enter this in TurboTax? My understanding is that I need to do form 8889 parts 1 & 2, which will then result in the other income being populated on schedule 1 line 8f. I can’t seem to get TurboTax to do that, though. I seem to only be able to enter it as other income with a description on schedule 1 line 8z. Is that fine? My worry is form 8889 will be auto populated showing $4,300 of contributions and a contribution limit of $4,300, when the limit should be just $2,150. Since I’m not receiving the 1099-SA until next year, how can I get form 8889 entered correctly without saying I received a 1099-SA (because I won’t)? 3. What do I do next year when I receive the 1099-SA that shows the 2025 & 2026 distributions? I will only owe taxes on the 2026 earnings & maybe the 2025 earnings depending on the answer to my first question, but certainly not the $2,150. Do I just not enter the 1099-SA into TurboTax next year? Thanks again for all the help.