topic The IRS is saying I owe money for unemployment income not reported on my 2022 tax return. But TurboTax won't allow you to e file unless you fix the issues. Please advise in After you file

The IRS is saying I owe money for unemployment income not reported on my 2022 tax return. But TurboTax won't allow you to e file unless you fix the issues. Please advise

hibsminor — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:36:57 GMT

According to the review Turbo tax cannot efile until issues are resolved. So I am confused as to why I owe money. Please advise

Re: The IRS is saying I owe money for unemployment income not reported on my 2022 tax return. But TurboTax won't allow you to e file unless you fix the issues. Please advise

rjs — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:20:00 GMT

TurboTax has not way to tell if you omitted income. It can't see the Form 1099-G on your desk that you did not enter. It has to rely on you to enter everything. Not entering all of your income is an issue that TurboTax cannot detect.

Form 1099-G is used for several types of income. People sometimes get confused and enter it in the wrong place. If you mistakenly entered it as a state income tax refund instead of unemployment, it might have been omitted because in most cases a state income tax refund does not have to be reported. Again, TurboTax can't see your 1099-G. It has to rely on you to enter it correctly. If you entered the 1099-G as a state income tax refund, TurboTax has no way of knowing that that is not correct.

If you entered your 1099-G correctly, the unemployment income will be on Schedule 1 line 7 in your 2022 tax return. The total from Schedule 1 line 10, which might include other types of income, flows to Form 1040 line 8.

Re: The IRS is saying I owe money for unemployment income not reported on my 2022 tax return. But...

KrisD15 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:32:03 GMT

The answer above from rjs is absolutely correct. Could you be so kind as to tell us what TurboTax is telling you for the error?

Is the error coming up in "Smart Check" in the program or as a code when you try to E-file?

To clarify, if a code, could you tell us that code?

@hibsminor