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Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

zapjack — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:41:10 GMT

My wife and I are filing as married/filing-jointly. My wife and I worked at the polls for the last election. The township we worked in sent us two very similar looking W-2s -- same employer (the township), same amount paid for the day working at the polls, etc., but a separate W-2 for each of us. Our federal return is getting rejected as "Duplicate W2 - Unfortunately, we've noticed your return may have included duplicate W2 information. Please login to TurboTax in order to resolve this issue before we can e-file your accurate return."

There is nothing to correct -- the W-2s are for two separate people. If they were to the same person I would assume that I could add them together and submit as one combined W-2, but the W-2s are for two different people with different SSNs.

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

SteamTrain — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:58:49 GMT

hard to know what to do in this situation.

1) go back to the W-2 section and make absolutely sure that one was assigned to you and the other to your spouse in the table of W-2 forms. IF they are not assigned to different people, correct that and try again.

2) IF...you've confirmed that each W-2 is assigned correctly to the correct spouse...hope-and pray that box 2 or box 17 had some real $$ amounts in them...if so, reduce one of those boxes value by $1 for one of the W-2 forms, and try again.

Not sure what to do if neither of those works...

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

crismanad — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 22:39:53 GMT

My husband and I are having the same problem. We have the same employer and identical pay. Both State and Federal filing is being rejected.

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

SteamTrain — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 23:22:15 GMT

@crismanad

And you tried my #2 suggestion?

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

id57 — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 20:04:46 GMT

I have had the same problem. My wife and I are working for the same employer and we have received two W-2's for the same amount, one under my SSN, another one under my wife's SSN. I think it is problem with TURBOTAX application itself, programming problem. I have had the same situation last year, but did not encounter this problem. When my Federal e-file got rejected because of duplicate W-2's, I have had the same idea as you are, I added $1.00 to one of the W-2's. It did not get rejected so far, but we did not receive confirmation of acceptance either.

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

zapjack — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:22:57 GMT

I followed the suggestion by SteamTrain, or a slight variation of the suggestion. The suggestion was to reduce one of the reported W-2 amounts by $1, which I did. But I also increased the other other W-2 by $1 so that the net amount reported to the IRS is did not change. The federal tax then went through without rejection, and within the next 24 hours the state return was also accepted (the state had originally been rejected due to the original federal rejection).

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

zapjack — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:28:41 GMT

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

beejay99158 — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:33:44 GMT

My husband and I had the same issue. Rejected by federal and state due to duplicate W2's. We worked for the same employer. Same wages, same hours, and everything the same except the name and were rejected . I tried the suggestion of changing reducing the wages by a dollar on one and increasing the wages on the other by a dollar , so the net income did not change. Let's hope this works . TURBO TAX , fix this !!

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

ngobel125 — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 21:04:36 GMT

All of my returns Federal, NJ and non-Res MD have all been rejected as well. It's saying I have a duplicate W2 but in fact I have 2 W2s, both for me from Unum. One is the NJ disability payments for maternity and the other is disability payments from my employer insurance. Both are Unum and both amounts are $0 but there is an amount as non-taxable sick pay (different for each) in box 12 code J. I don't want to include any income unnecessarily so since there is nothing in box 1 I'm not sure what else to try.

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me an...

SForrestLO — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 16:36:35 GMT

Try to edit both of the W-2's and add $!.00 in box (1) of yours, and subtract -$1.00 from your spouse.

There will be no change to the return, but it will not cause the original confusion.

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me an...

apfata — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:19:31 GMT

Would this strategy increase the likelihood of an audit, as the W2 of the employee and the forms filed by the employer would not match?

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me an...

fanfare — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:29:16 GMT

@apfata

try another tax software provider.

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

awaylu — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 18:39:13 GMT

same problem here. It's a turbo tax problem for sure.

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

Bonnyrabbit79 — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 23:22:08 GMT

Don't think it's a turbotax problem. It's the IRS Efile system that is rejecting the return, not turbotax.

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

clevelandmb — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:55:39 GMT

I had similar issue, return rejected for duplicate 1099R. We both have exact retirement income from same company. Althogh withholding tax was different - they should know NOT a duplicate. This has been the same for prior years and no problem. I decided to increase the amount for my 1099R by $1 and resubmit. Hope it works. Otherwise T-T says print and mail it - a pain.

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

clevelandmb — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 16:00:51 GMT

In reply to "it's not a Turbo Tax problem - but IRS" Maybe so, but T-T should know about (seems common) and provide a solution rather than just state duplicate on the email they send about Rejected Return.

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

clevelandmb — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 18:47:24 GMT

I changed the amount on the Turbo Tax for one of my 1099Rs that they rejected for habing a duplicate. I resubmitted and got a reply that the IRS had accepted it. But will wait to see if they later reject it.

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me an...

AmyC — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 01:35:31 GMT

@clevelandmb Once the IRS has accepted your return, then they process it. Computers will cross check things and the forms within an accepted variance go right through. There should not be an issue.

The IRS software will note the owner of the form in the processing portion. The IRS does not do that for the acceptance stage.

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

Eddie62189 — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:08:05 GMT

Maybe I should try this. I got denied for same thing. But I don’t have duplicates at all no wife with same w2 nothing. I just had 3 different jobs with 3 DIFFERENT w2,s. I think it’s TurboTax themselves messing stuff up. When I called turbo tax was lost for the reason I got rejected. This is my 4th year in a row with turbo tax messing something up

Re: Federal e-filing rejected for duplicate W-2s -- but the W-2s are similar but one is for me and one for my wife

Dlindor25 — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:39:21 GMT

@Eddie62189 The same thing happened to me. How were you able to resolve it? I have 3 different w2s with different incomes on each.