Questions for "Wages and Salaries" Line Item...

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April 3, 2020
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Hi Team,

New tax filer here - typically my parents have done them for me but I thought I'd give it a go this year.

After completing the Federal Tab's "Income Section" I was alarmed as I looked at the summary page. After clicking done with income, my "Here's a Picture of your 2019 Income" page that shows Total Income seems to be messed up. In the Summary, it lists Wages and Salaries + Interest + Dividends = Total Income, and everything looks correct except for the line time of wages and salaries. They are higher than the total of all of my W-2's.

What is going on here? Hope you can help.

MarilynG

Level 15

Type 'w2' in the Search area, then click on 'Jump to w2'.

At the W-2 Summary page, see if you have duplicated any W-2 entries.

You can Delete or Edit from this page (screenshot).

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hadleyma2019Author

Level 2

I checked, and there is no extra or duplicate information.

When I click into the "Easy Step" tab called Federal and select Wages and Income, my "total" wages are reported correctly from my W-2 as $48K. See the photo below:

Later, if I finish the "Wages & Income" section and click "done," then on the Summary page, my "wages and salaries" line item a much higher number ($52K).

Is there a way to break down what the wages and salary are coming from? I deleted all financial info and re-entered my W-2's by hand just to be sure I haven't missed a thing...

Thanks!

VolvoGirl

Level 15

If you are looking at a summary screen or review screen those show the full amount as income and lump a lot of stuff together. You need to check the actual 1040 and make sure it’s right.

Check the actual 1040. Do you have any letters by line 1?

SCH by 1040 line 1Wages is taxable scholarship income and the amount

HSH is for Household Help

DCB means Dependent Care Benefit

Or do you have any 1099R forms with code 3 in box 7?