topic other income taxes in Deductions & credits

other income taxes

Suna1 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:29:33 GMT

I am experiencing a problem with "Other income taxes". This has erroneously included state and federal withholding. It should not include federal and state withholding taxes if they have already been declared on a 1099, W2, ... This erroneously qualified my return to use itemized deductions and gave me an inflated tax return. To work around this, I manually selected standard deduction. This gave the results I expected but left me unsure of the accuracy of my return. This is a bug and needs to be fixed. I hopefully worked around this issue but if someone is itemizing their deductions, BEWARE!

Re: other income taxes

DawnC — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:32:33 GMT

Other income taxes is the total of all of your withholding from all forms, both federal and state. TurboTax pulls the numbers from the forms you enter. You do not need to enter the withholdings again.

Re: other income taxes

Suna1 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:40:57 GMT

Other income taxes should not include federal and state withholding if they already have been identified in a W2 or 1099. This will inflate the deduction amount and as in my case will falsely reduce my tax liability. I believe this to be a bug in Turbo Tax.

Re: other income taxes

DawnC — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 02:46:20 GMT

You should not be entering anything in Other Income Taxes, as TurboTax is already pulling these numbers from the forms you entered. That section is for payments you made with an extension, withholding NOT reported on a form, and refunds from a previous year that you are applying to this year's taxes.

Re: other income taxes

Suna1 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:40:04 GMT

That's the problem, I did not enter those numbers, Turbo Tax mysteriously populated that entry. Sounds like a bug to me.

Re: other income taxes

SteamTrain — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 11:33:14 GMT

Yeah, that confuses people.

On the menu page, there is a $$ number showing the total of Fed&State withholding (local too if any), even if you didn't enter anything in the "Other" income taxes section.

It has displayed that way for many-many years....Perhaps TTX Display designers need to rethink whether to display those $$ there.

Re: other income taxes

Suna1 — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 20:20:44 GMT

Thank you. This clears up what caused my confusion.

Re: other income taxes

debkrech2010 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:53:20 GMT

Totally agree they should not display there, it is very confusing and makes you think there are extra deductions. I agree it is a bug not a feature or 'nice' display It should be removed.

Re: other income taxes

JK777 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:05:42 GMT

When I click on the $$$ amount listed, TTX provides a breakdown like:

Federal Withholding $50,000

State Withholding $10,000

The State amount matches the sum of the 2 W2s I imported.

However, the Federal amount is $1,200 higher than the federal withholding from the 2 W2s.

There is no other Federal withholding that I can find. Is there a way for me to determine where this extra amount comes from? I did not enter any extra amounts in "Estimates" or "Other Income Taxes".

Again, this is regarding "FEDERAL TAXES"."Deductions & Credits"."Estimates and Other Taxes Paid"."Other Income Taxes". Is this just a status amount from TTX and I can ignore it? Thanks.

Re: other income taxes

BillM223 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:13:44 GMT

First, are you using the Online product or the desktop product?

Second, is this on an IRS form (and which one?) or on some sort of TurboTax summary page? If the latter, what is the title of the page?

Re: other income taxes

JK777 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:27:36 GMT

Thanks @BillM223 for replying so quickly.

This is on the desktop version. It is also in the TTX step-by-step section for:

"FEDERAL TAXES"."Deductions & Credits"."Estimates and Other Taxes Paid"."Other Income Taxes"

The page title is "Your 2023 Deductions & Credits", same $$$ issue as the message that started this thread.

Sorry... I believe I've found it. I went to the "Forms" view and found a "Tax Payments" table in "Form 1040: Individual"."Tax Payments". In there I found the missing amount under "18f Additional Medicare Tax". This is not something I entered, nor is it easily decipherable from the W2s or 1099-Rs (which I don't have any).
It really would have been very helpful if this (/these) extra amounts could be broken out in the breakdown of where the amounts, entered automatically by TTX, into "Other Income Taxes" came from.

Thanks.

Re: other income taxes

SteamTrain — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 21:07:08 GMT

@JK777

Yep, for those who have the desktop software, the Forms Mode view of the Tax Payments Worksheet is a huge help in figuring where all the $$ are coming from. ...for many other reasons too...it will show you all sorts of tax payment things you wouldn't have thought of, coming into that worksheet from a myriad of other forms.

Online users can get that worksheet too...but the procedure is more complicated.

Re: other income taxes

lejoint — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:37:00 GMT

In my desktop TurboTax Home & Business, in the personal deductions section / Estimates and Other Taxes Paid / Other Income Taxes, it currently lists the figure $87,051,798. LOL. Obviously this is wrong. I haven't paid $87 million in taxes. How do I remove that figure?

Re: other income taxes

DoninGA — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:40:36 GMT

@lejoint wrote:

In my desktop TurboTax Home & Business, in the personal deductions section / Estimates and Other Taxes Paid / Other Income Taxes, it currently lists the figure $87,051,798. LOL. Obviously this is wrong. I haven't paid $87 million in taxes. How do I remove that figure?

Go back to where you entered income. There is probably a misplaced decimal point or a comma entered for a decimal point.

Re: other income taxes

DawnC — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:41:00 GMT

You have to go back to your w-2s and 1099s and check the withholding boxes. You probably made a typo on one of them. @lejoint

Re: other income taxes

lejoint — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:42:55 GMT

Thanks, but I looked at every entry under Other Income Taxes and there is nothing entered in any category.

Re: other income taxes

DoninGA — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:52:30 GMT

In the section for Estimates and other Taxes Paid. edit the section where you see the erroneous amount entered for 2025. It must be in one of the sections under that heading.

Re: other income taxes

DawnC — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:56:20 GMT

You can view the Tax Payments Worksheet included with your return, and see where the typo is. @lejoint

Re: other income taxes

VolvoGirl — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:58:11 GMT

Other taxes could be any of the following:

Self-Employment tax

Unreported SS & Medicare tax

10% Early Distribution of Retirement plans penalty

Advance EIC from W-2

Household Employment tax

Etc.

Like some could be for State and local taxes paid...

-any state withholding from your paychecks, retirement checks, unemployment checks, etc.

-a state tax due (for any year) you paid last year

-any state estimated tax payments you made during year including an overpayment applied from last year

-any local taxes withheld on your checks like SDI in box 14 or 19 on your W2

Re: other income taxes

lejoint — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:59:35 GMT

Okay, I found the source of the error. On my 1099-Rs, the FEIN number was entered in the state taxes withheld field, leading to that ridiculous number.

Thanks for your help!