NJ W2 box 16 guidance?

[hannah3]

For NJ W2 Turbo tax says "box 16-2 State wages cannot be less than State withholdings."  However, line 2 of box 16 corresponds to FLI state wages, and my NJ W2 lists no state wages, while line 2 of box 17 does list 6.67 in FLI state income tax. Did my employers make a mistake or is turbo tax getting confused? What should I do?

[ChristinaS · Accepted solution]

Put FLI of $7 in Box 14- which is where the information belongs. There's a dropdown for FLI there.

Ignore the way the W2 presents this, as NJ does not have local wages.

You also only have 1 W2. If the employer gave you a "second" W2 with just the FLI in the local wages section, make sure you don't enter that as another W2 in Turbo Tax.

Only enter the W2 once in Turbo Tax, and make sure you use whatever copy of the W2 has actual state wages. You do have actual state wages for NJ, NY, or wherever you worked somewhere, correct?