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W-2 form box 12 category default

I went through the W-2 process of uploading a picture of them and it got everything right on my wife's W-2 except box 12a. The Original w2 form had cat: DD and then and an amount next to it. When I went in to correct it I entered the amount that was on the w2 form and then went on my way to the next step. It had defaulted in the category to A which is "Uncollected Social Security tax or Railroad Retirement Tax Act (RRTA) tax on tips. Include this tax on Form 1040 Schedule 2, line 13" so that made my taxes show that I owed a huge amount. I thought everything was correct so I went ahead and filed and set up the payment to the IRS. Now they have my savings and I've got to go back and file a 1040X form, which is not available with Turbotax Deluxe. So why did it default on category A instead of asking me what category I wanted to enter. Why didn't Turbotax at least ask me if I thought this was correct? I know I should have double checked everything and that's my fault, but it's TurboTax's fault for defaulting to something that would cause you to possibly have to pay in taxes instead of getting a refund. After making the correction I would have gotten a refund too.  

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