W-2 Box 15 - Utah - Employer's state ID number

[herbertvoss]

No matter what I enter here, the TurboTax software won't accept it.  The number printed on my W-2 statement is "11736850 017 WTH", but even if I just make up a number, I get the same error message: "Must be 14 characters long with no hyphens".  I entered it exactly how it is listed above, and it is 14 characters long.  I cannot proceed any further until this has been resolved, and my credit card has been charged so I need this fixed ASAP.  Thank you.

[rjs]

Did you try entering it without the spaces? A space is a character. What you showed in your question is 16 characters because of the spaces.

[herbertvoss]

Yes - I entered it with and without spaces, with and without the three final letters - no matter what I enter, even if it was a 14-digit gibberish number, it won't accept it.  Thanks.

[SteamTrain]

@herbertvoss 

Delete the number entire, click in another box to be sure the number box is empty, then come back to the number box and re-enter it with no spaces.

BUT...the final three letters??? they must be   lower case.....wth  !!

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.......this has been going on for years now, and I really can't see why the program managers don't fix whatever "case" they want in the background programming  SHEESH !!

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That goes for any tax form you enter with UT state withholding and those Utah code letters.