My wife is a federal employee with her Social Security Tax deferred via Notice 2020-65. TT keeps saying we need to pay back now with penalties. How do we handle in TT?

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March 12, 2021
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We should not have a penalty if this is something the government forced on federal employees.

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BillM223

Level 15

What is the exact error message in TurboTax? And where do you see it, in the W-2 interview or in the Review?

It appears to me that if you have one employer, then the deferred Social Security tax will be added to your W-2, and that you should file the W-2 as is.

Please see this instructive post on this issue.

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OctoparrotAuthor

Level 2

No matter what I do, I keep getting an underpayment penalty. This should not be the case if this is a federal program to postpone SS taxes. “You have a penalty of $345 for underpayment of estimated taxes. Your federal refund was lowered and is now $512”. Even if I update Box 4 on the W2 to the correct amount of SS wages, TT still forces this underpayment penalty. I even tried using “Actual Withholding” – > Tax Payments by Quarter, Date of Payment, Penalty Waivers -> Late Payment Penalty -> Underpayment Penalty, which results in the same penalty.

OctoparrotAuthor

Level 2

Also, when I did the Federal Review, TT does say we will be getting a W2c. TT wants us to pay the money back ASAP, but the federal employees are getting it taken out in 24 payments over 2021. We should not have to pay a penalty for this.