NY State Tax Help

[Braxxus]

I had everything entered and I thought I could file my taxes, but I have all sorts of issues now.

My employer gave me two different w2s because of NY, so I have taxes in NY and AZ.  They put all of the numbers for AZ along with the Federal on one form and everything for NY on a separate form.  My problem is that when I try to file I get one of two issues.

1.) if I enter 2 w2s then Turbotax gives me an error saying that it can't efile since there is no income on one of the w2s and requires me to mail in to both federal and NY for taxes.

2.) if I try to combine the two states into a single w2, which I thought would fix my problem there is a problem since NY won't accept a value of Pretax in box 14 and that is causing me to be unable to file both Federal and NY taxes again.

What can I do to get around this or override the software? I don't want to subtract $100 from one w2 and add it to a separate w2 to make it whole as I fear that would be an automatic audit.

[LindaS5247]

If you have a W-2 with a $0 in Box 1, you do not have to include it on your tax return. That would be preventing you from e-filing.

You can delete the W-2 as follows:

If you are using TurboTax Online/Mobile: you can use this link W-2, or you can:

1. Open your return.
2. Go to "wages and income"
3. Under W-2(s) select the garbage can icon next to your W-2 that you need to delete. 

If you are using TurboTax Desktop:

1. Open your return
2. In the Search bar, enter "W-2" and select the "Jump to" link. This will take you to your W-2 entries 
3. Select the (down) caret next to your W-2 and then select the garbage can icon next to the Form W-2 that you want to delete.

If this does not correct your filing error, please come back to Community and let us know what your program is doing. What error message you are getting and what version of TurboTax you are using.

Click here for additional information regarding editing your Form W-2.

[Braxxus]

Thank you for the reply, but that didn't work. I do have earnings in NY; however, the w2 put all of my earnings with AZ and put New York on a separate w2 without any income.  No matter what I did Turbotax kept giving me errors for the federal and NY taxes.

In the end I had to move everything into a single w2, add NY as a second state and misrepresent the item in box 14 as some NY code that leads to the correct result, but is not an appropriate answer.  The TurboTax software pretty much forced me to choose that option as it wouldn't accept anything else.  I was forced to choose some NY 414(H) something or another to get past the error when the code should have been other.  I guess it could have fallen under NY 125 SEC, but TurboTax wouldn't let me move ahead.

The system is buggy it should be fixed. In short I had to put it in as untaxable contributions to a public pension fund of which I am not part of instead of correctly as the pretax benefit contribution that isn't taxable.