topic Re: excess CA SDI in State tax filing

excess CA SDI

021188 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:14:24 GMT

wont let me efile becasue it says i have excess CA SDI which i dont . only had one employer

Re: excess CA SDI

macuser_22 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:29:24 GMT

Are you filing joint and your spouse has a W-2 and you accidentally entered both W-2's for the same spouse?

Or perhaps there is a rounding error - try reducing the amount by $1.00.

Re: excess CA SDI

021188 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:39:59 GMT

only one W2. rounded correctly. its on a loop cant file till resolved. glitch in system i think.

Re: excess CA SDI

SweetieJean — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:41:40 GMT

Be sure you didn't mistype the state wages box on the W-2. If you did, it's doing a calculation based on an incorrect wage.

Re: excess CA SDI

macuser_22 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:42:56 GMT

Is it in box 14 on your W-2? How much did you enter?

Re: excess CA SDI

021188 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:48:40 GMT

yes its in box 14 . Doubled checked w2 several times . any more suggestions. its on a loop im going crazy or crazier

Re: excess CA SDI

021188 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:49:38 GMT

double checked but thannks. can you thimk of anything else its drivivng me batty

Re: excess CA SDI

macuser_22 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:57:16 GMT

It cannot be more than $1,229.

Actually unless you are itemizing deductions, it is not necessary to enter it at all. The only reason for it to be entered is it is a state tax that can be a deduction but only if you itemize.

Re: excess CA SDI

021188 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 01:06:15 GMT

so sdi is only 280ish. so turbo tax brought it to my attention on review so I added a zero, now ive removed the zero and everything is fine. Go figure , Thanks to all that replied. allowed some other ideas to crop up in my head based on your suggestions and have now filed my taxes. Thank you all

Re: excess CA SDI

doover25 — Tue, 11 May 2021 01:07:15 GMT

SOLVED:

I also have only 1 employer.

I also had excess, but TurboTax wouldn't let me file.

The fine/bolded print at the bottom of the Excess SDI Worksheet says:

1 employer
you were taxed more than 1% of gross
Then you CANNOT claim excess but need to contact your employer for a refund.

Thus, I blanked Form 540 Line 74 (no zero, but blank) and the error went away and I was able to file.

Re: excess CA SDI

farvour — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 07:55:33 GMT

I just encountered this for this year's filing (of 2021 in 2022) where the maximal amount was a penny less than my employer provided (1 employer) W2. I reduced the amount by 1 cent to be the maximum and continued to eFile. I believe as described above it's more of an issue if you itemize. I took standard deduction so I'm not even sure if this number would have mattered to me. In any case, reducing it by one cent made TT happy. If this number had been much greater than a penny I would be concerned that my employer accidentally withheld too much and I'd have to get a refund from them I presume...

Re: CA 540 "Excess SDI" line 74 glitch redux

richard 122 — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 18:27:31 GMT

I don't even have a W-2. Retired for years and only 1099s and some interest and dividends. Got "No Error" report for both my fed and CA, and successfully E-filed Fed and Accepted, but TT won't let me e-file CA regardless of how many times I enter -0- on Line 74. Keeps trying to bounce me back to a "Form W-2 Wage and Tax Statements included in the Federal Program," despite having correctly checked the box on TT's Fed program as "didn't receive any W-2's"

So I've already paid TT the fee to file CA electronically, but now I can't, and guess I have to print and file CA by mail. I've never had this glitch in prior years as retiree with no W-2(s), but I see threads in this forum going back several years discussing this, with no effective answer or solution.

Re: excess CA SDI

richard 122 — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:36:46 GMT

Great solution/workaround for my identical problem for 2021. I have no W-2s but TT on its own entered "0" on line 74, triggering error message and not allowing me to e-file CA return. BUT your suggestion of deleting the "0" generated by TT on Line 74, and leaving that line blank, cured the problem. Thanks.

Re: excess CA SDI

moose3130 — Thu, 04 May 2023 00:02:59 GMT

Deleting the 0 completely did it for me. The return was finished, I did the double check at the end and it wouldn't let me file. On line 74 excess SDI of which I didn't have any excess there was a Actual "0" on that line Which was correct I didn't have any excess SDI but it would not let me file with the "0" on that line so I just Deleted the "0" an it then let me complete and file the return. Took me 6 hours of searching. I finally saw something on this chat that gave me a clue. Hope this helps.