If I paid my Fed Tax filing an extension, how do I mark "Already Paid" when e-filing? There is no payment option like that. The forms generated do not indicate payment.

[VolvoGirl]

Are you asking about a tax due payment or paying the Turbo Tax fees?

[xmasbaby0]

When you requested your extension you were supposed to pay your estimated tax due.  Did you enter the payment you made into your tax return?  Go to Federal>Deductions and Credits>Estimates and Other Taxes Paid>Other Income Taxes  

[cwgotcher]

This string indicated that shoudl be a category called other taxes paid - I cannot locate it to include the taxes we paid when we filed for an extension. How can I include that amount on my return?

[VolvoGirl]

If your extension payment did not automatically show up on 1040 Schedule 5 line 71 which goes to 1040 line 17 you need to enter it.  So make sure it's not already there before you enter it!

You can type estimates paid in the search box at the top of your return and click Find and it will give you a link to Jump To the screen where you enter Extension Payments.

To enter the amount you paid with an extension (including state extension)  go to

Federal Taxes (or Personal for desktop H&B version)

Deductions and Credits

Then scroll way down to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid

Other Income Taxes - Click the Start or Update button

Next page second section Payments with Extension

Either Visit All or Click Start or Update by the extension you paid

[cwgotcher]

Thank you for your repsonse however, I have two issues here still - I do not have a schedule 5 on my 1040 - so I cannot confirm it. My line 17 only shows the amount withheld.

Somehow too, I have created a 1040 Schedule V that seems to be a voucher indicating I am submitting that monney when I file this return. What am I doing wrong, shouldn’t my return relfect zero since I paid the outstanding balance due when I filed my extension? 

[VolvoGirl]

Your withholding should be on line 16 not 17.  Line 17 should only be the extension payment and any other estimated payments you made.   Did you enter the extension payment?  Does it show up anywhere else like on line 16?

is the 1040V voucher for the same amount that you already paid?  You need to enter the extension payment and make sure any W2 and 1099 withholding is on line 16 not 17.

 Click on Add a State to let you back into your retun. 

[cwgotcher]

For the 2018 tax year 1040 form, line 15 is fed withholding and that is correct. Line 17 is refundable credits and included EIC, education credits, child tax credit, and any amount from schedule 5 - I only have the education credit amount there. Is Schedule - V considered schedule 5? It comes up as a payment voucher - not the taxes we paid with our filed extension. In the Deductions and Credits section - Other Income Taxes - Payment with 2018 Federal Extension it shows the 11,543 we paid - but it does not show up on our 1040 and when i go to file the return it shows the 11,543 balance due and gives me 4 options to pay my balance and apparently created the voucher to send it with my check. How do i get the return to reflect that payment and show $0 balance due when I file the return?

[VolvoGirl]

That sounds very wrong.  You better call in.   The 1040V is not a schedule.  It is just the tax due payment voucher.  And those other 4 payment slips are 1040ES and are NOT for the tax due. They are quarterly estimated payments for Next Year 2019 so you don't end up owing so much again.  They are optional to pay.

Here is what schedule 5 looks like

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040s5.pdf

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