form 8959 glitch

james-luna68 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:05:12 GMT

form 8959 error

Re: form 8959 glitch

CatinaT1 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:08:11 GMT

Double check your entries for your W2s. You could have a Box 6 withholding error or misplaced decimal point in Box 5 (e.g., entering $50,000.00 as $500,000) will trigger the form.

Go to Wages & Income and select Edit/Add next to your W-2.
Check Box 5 and Box 6 for every W-2 entered.
Ensure Box 6 is exactly 1.45% of Box 5. If it is off by a few cents (e.g., the W-2 shows $145.01 instead of $145.00), rounding it to the nearest dollar may remove the form requirement.

If the amount in Box 6 (Medicare tax withheld) is more than 1.45% of the amount in Box 5 (Medicare wages), TurboTax must generate Form 8959 to claim a refund of that overpayment. Even a discrepancy of $1 due to employer rounding can trigger this.

If your W2 entries are correct, delete the form:

Select Tax Tools from the left menu, then Tools.
Select Delete a form.
Find Form 8959 and click Delete.
Note: If the data in your W-2 still points to an overpayment, TurboTax will automatically re-generate the form during the final review.

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form 8959 glitch

Re: form 8959 glitch