Hello, my employer did not withhold FICA for 2024 and my W2 box 3 and 4 are empty. They were not interested in providing me a corrected W2 either for 2024. I searched on how to file my taxes correctly and found this post (https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/fica-taxes-mistakenly-not-withheld-by-employer/00...) where a turbotax expert has provided a set of steps to follow. I had to purchase Turbotax since following these steps required me to get a paid version. However, just like another turbotax user (vishalkam) on that post, following those steps calculates a Federal tax due of about 4 to 5 times of what FICA should actually be for me. I am unsure how to proceed forward with this problem. Can anyone help on this please ? Thank you.
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Thank you for your response, Dave. I have sent a diagnostic copy and the reference number is 9411819860063283-83342864. Thank you once again. This has been a pain.
Don't despair. I have your file in front of me. I noticed two things that caught my eye. First of all, your Wage amount of $93,452 and your elective deferral amount is $11,585. The total is $105,037. You reported $107,859. Not sure how you got this amount, but you may need to change this in the section where you reported the uncollected FICA taxes.
Now here's the part you will like. You need to exclude either $107,859 or $105,037. You doubled your income by reporting the uncollected FICA taxes but now you are going to exclude it, leaving just the uncollected FICA reported in your return. Here is how to exclude the income.
This will now reduce your tax due significantly because all that remains is the 8919 reporting your uncollected FICA taxes. These will be reduced more if the income I calculate is $105,037. I may be wrong if there's something i overlooked.
I am in the same scenario, however I already filed my tax day before yesterday. Can I amend it to include for 8919? I want to file with an agent as well. Can you please look into my scenario?
Thank you so much. I tried the steps that you have mentioned above and I was able to successfully add only the FICA portion. I talked further to the payroll team and they did not provide clear directions. I learned that as an employee, I should be following the W2 and its up to the employer to rectify their mistakes - which could mean that they will pay any FICA that needs to be paid and they can deduct my portion of FICA from my future payrolls according to some IRS provisions. I went this route instead of complicating things to comply with IRS deadline of tax filing.
Yes, if you have the same situation as the OP, you can amend your return to include form 8919 on your return following the steps above by DavidF.
You can amend after the tax deadline as well, so if you amend now it is perfectly fine.
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