Reporting a state tax refund I received in 2025. Turbotax is asking about payments and withholdings. I have my w2 from 2024. What box list payments/withholdings?

[DavidD66]

Can you clarify your question?  What payments/withholdings are you referring to?  If you received a state tax refund in 2025 for 2024 taxes, you should have received a Form 1099-G from your state reporting that refund.  If you didn't receive a Form 1099-G you can probably get that information from your state's Department of Revenue.  

[2025turbofiler]

Hi. I'm having the same issue as the question above with Turbo tax. It asked to enter payments and withholdings from a refund i rec'd in 2025 for tax yr 2024. On my 1099-G, it only indicated the amount of refund but doesn't indicate my payments and withholdings. At this point, i don't know what to enter. Pls help. thank you 

[Karis_F]

When entering your Form 1099-G in TurboTax in Income>Refunds Received for State/Local tax returns, you are asked about payments and withholdings. This amount is the total payments made to the state that you received the refund from in the tax year of the refund (likely 2024 in this case).

The easiest way to find the total payments and withholdings made for your 2024 state taxes is to look at your 2024 state tax return. 

You will see a line on the return that shows total payments, which includes withholding. After entering this number in TurboTax along with the refund amount you received, TurboTax will ask several other questions then calculate if some or all of the 2024 state refund is taxable on your 2025 federal tax return. 

If you itemized deductions on your 2024 federal tax return and received a tax benefit from the state tax deduction, some or all of the refund may be taxable on your 2025 federal tax return. If you took the standard deduction, the 2024 state tax refund is not taxable on your 2025 federal tax return.

Here is a TurboTax article for more information on the taxability of state tax refunds.