Hello,
I've been using TurboTax for the past 20+ years and this is the first time that I was unable to efile my tax return for 2023 using the "Premier" version of TurboTax. The issue was that I received a W-2 from the state of California for IHSS wages I received for being my dad's caregiver. Apparently in California, since my dad who receives IHSS benefits lives with me in my home and I'm also his caregiver, I'm able to "exclude" those wages from being taxed at the State & Federal level; therefore, my W-2 showed Social Security wages, Medicare & State Disability wages, but "zero" wages for Federal and State.
When I was getting ready to efile my 2023 taxes, TurboTax kept stating that there was an "error" in my Federal & State wages and wouldn't allow me to efile. I had to print, make physical copies for the state & submit my 2023 taxes via the USPS and the IRS had to "manually" enter my taxes into their system. As a result of that, whoever entered my taxes into the IRS system failed to enter line #38 (Estimated tax penalty) in the amount of $438 and I received a letter from the IRS that I failed to pay the penalty when in fact I had paid it. Now, I'm dealing with the IRS to resolve this issue.
Please TurboTax developers, make sure that you fix this issue for the 2024 tax year because the same issue is going to happen to me again whenever I get ready to efile my 2024 taxes next year. Thank you.
