The current TurboTax Online system is only for 2019. You cannot do - nor should you add - your 2018 return on the current Online product.   If you entered 2018 data and immediately thereafter entered 2019 data, then you overwrote your 2018 data  with the 2019 data, which could be OK if no 2018 data was left. But you must not add 2018 W-2s and 2019 W-2s to the same return. If you filed your 2019 return, you may have to amend it to remove any traces of 2018 data.   Please see this TurboTax FAQ ​​​​​​​for information on how to file your 2018 return.   ... View more

"If I move to WA, get new license, apartment etc in WA with no apartment/house/drivers license etc in CA wouldn't I be considered to be domiciled in WA?"   Tom is of course correct that a change of domicile would make you a nonresident of California. Note, however, that unless you move at midnight between December 31st and January 1st, you would need to file a part-year return for California for that part of the year in which you were living there.   Tom is also correct about this unique feature of California law that if you are a business (like a sole proprietorship, which a contractor is), then income generated from California clients is California source income and therefore taxable to California, even if you did the work elsewhere. This is different from most states who tax you where you work, not where your clients are.   So you will need to have a discussion with your employer about whether your relocation to Washington can be a permanent thing or not (or get a job in Washington). ... View more

First, you want to establish what your domicile is. Your domicile is the place of your permanent residence, that is, the place you will return to when your sojourn to another state or country is finished. Domicile is more than just where you are sleeping.   Once you establish your domicile, it does not change unless you take positive steps to move your domicile elsewhere.   In your case, it seems that you are a California resident who is temporarily working out of state. That is, some or all of the following is true: your property where you live is in California, your home phone number (if a land line) is in California, your driver's license is in California, your voter's registration is in California, and so on.    And when the Covid-19 situation ends, you intend to return to California all the while working for the same company.   The question of residency is important, because if you are a resident of California, you owe tax on all income earned from any state or country, no matter where you are working or sleeping at the time.   Please see the following on page 4 of CA Pub 1031: "A resident is any individual who meets any of the following: Present in California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose. Domiciled in California, but outside California for a temporary or transitory purpose. See Section L, Meaning of Domicile."   Note that CA Pub 1031 does describe on page 4 a "safe harbor" in which employees who are out of state for more than 546 days (about 18 months) can claim to be nonresidents. But it is not clear to me that this would apply to you. In the first case, you don't plan to be out of state for that long, and in the second case, I do not think that your sojourn in Washington is due to a clause in your employment contract (please correct me if I am wrong) but due to the willingness of the company to let you work remotely from out of state (i.e., they did not tell you where to live as a condition of your employment).   Based on what I see so far, you appear to be domiciled in California, have done nothing to change that domicile, and therefore must file as a resident of California, which means that you are taxed "...on ALL income, including income from sources outside California." (page 6 of CA Pub 1031).   So, to answer your question, based on what I see so far, you will be liable to pay CA tax on all of your CA income, even that earned while out of state, until such point as you take positive steps to change your domicile to another state. ... View more

TurboTax can create the state of Pennsylvania tax return as an addition to the federal tax return.   However, TurboTax does not support the Philadelphia Earnings Tax (see https://www.phila.gov/documents/2019-earnings-tax-forms/) for the City. Note, however, that the instructions suggest (i.e., ask your HR department to be sure) that if your Philadelphia employer withholds city tax on your paycheck, that you might not need to file the city return - some cities do it this way, but I am not sure about Philadelphia, so ask.   TurboTax also does not support the school district taxes for Pennsylvania. In the City itself, please see https://www.phila.gov/services/payments-assistance-taxes/income-taxes/school-income-tax/ For other school districts, please contact them directly.   As for other possible taxes, I would encourage you to contact the Information Desks at your city hall and your county to find out if there are other obligations. ... View more

There are several types of FSAs (Flexible Spending Arrangement) that the IRS recognizes: a general purpose health FSA, a limited purpose health FSA, and a dependent care FSA.   For both the general purpose health FSA and a limited purpose health FSA, there are no reporting requirements on your tax return. That is, there is nothing on your W-2 that even refers to these FSAs, nor anything else you need to enter into TurboTax.   For a dependent care FSA, there is often (not always) an entry in box 10 on your W-2 showing the amount of your income diverted to your dependent care FSA. This is automatically entered when you enter or upload your W-2.   However, this alone is not sufficient to complete your dependent care information. You must also proceed to the Child and Dependent Care interview and answer the questions there. You can get to this interview directly by doing a Search (upper right) for child and dependent care and clicking on the jump-to result. Mac users will look for child and dependent care in the Topic List. ... View more

Your issue is with the question that asks "What type of High Deductible Health Plan did [name] have on December 1, 2018?"   ​​​​​​​Unfortunately, the question does not clarify that it is only for a small group of taxpayers and that all other taxpayers should answer "NONE".   NOTE: each spouse can have an HSA. The use of "you" below refers to whichever spouse's name was in the question above.   This question is trying to determine if you utilized the "last-month" rule in 2018 (yes, 2018). The last-month rule lets you use the full annual HSA contribution limit if you had HDHP coverage on December 1, even if you were not covered by an HDHP for all of the year.   However, the catch is that if you used the last-month rule, the IRS requires that you stay under HDHP coverage for all of the following year (2019).   ***NOTE*** This question occurs on the taxpayer who does not have an HSA, so never had a chance to tell TurboTax in the HSA interview what their HDHP coverage was for 2019.   So, the fix is this: go back to the question (at the end of the HSA interview), and:   If you had HDHP coverage for all of 2018 , then enter NONE  If you had no HDHP coverage for all of 2018, then enter NONE. If you did not have an HSA in 2018, then enter NONE. If you had an HSA in 2018 but did not contribute to it in 2018, then enter NONE.   Only taxpayers who had their own HSA in 2018 AND who contributed to their own HSA in 2018 should answer “Family” or “Self” or “None” (which can be the right answer in some cases).   ... View more

Your issue is with the question that asks "What type of High Deductible Health Plan did [name] have on December 1, 2018?"   ​​​​​​​Unfortunately, the question does not clarify that it is only for a small group of taxpayers and that all other taxpayers should answer "NONE".   NOTE: each spouse can have an HSA. The use of "you" below refers to whichever spouse's name was in the question above.   This question is trying to determine if you utilized the "last-month" rule in 2018 (yes, 2018). The last-month rule lets you use the full annual HSA contribution limit if you had HDHP coverage on December 1, even if you were not covered by an HDHP for all of the year.   However, the catch is that if you used the last-month rule, the IRS requires that you stay under HDHP coverage for all of the following year (2019).   ***NOTE*** This question occurs on the taxpayer who does not have an HSA, so never had a chance to tell TurboTax in the HSA interview what their HDHP coverage was for 2019.   So, the fix is this: go back to the question (at the end of the HSA interview), and:   If you had HDHP coverage for all of 2018 , then enter NONE  If you had no HDHP coverage for all of 2018, then enter NONE. If you did not have an HSA in 2018, then enter NONE. If you had an HSA in 2018 but did not contribute to it in 2018, then enter NONE.   Only taxpayers who had their own HSA in 2018 AND who contributed to their own HSA in 2018 should answer “Family” or “Self” or “None” (which can be the right answer in some cases).   ... View more

"HSA contributions reported in box 12 on the W-2 with a code of G"   Please note that this is a typo, it should read " HSA contributions reported in box 12 on the W-2 with a code of W ". ... View more

" how does the government see how much you make via your tax returns? "   The purpose of the tax return is to show much you made and to determine your taxable income (which can be different than "how much you made") and tax due. I guess I don't understand your question since the point of a tax return is to show the government how much you made.   Perhaps you are asking, how does the government know that you made this or that? This is why many tax forms are copied to the IRS, like W-2s from employers and 1099-MISCs from businesses paying contractors. The IRS gets the copies of these documents then matches them up with the tax return that you submit. If the IRS computer is not happy with the match, then a letter is generated which recalculates your tax based on the documents they got from other sources and asks you to pay or dispute it.    "I got a return of $200 " - Do you mean that you got a refund of $200? The "return" is the document (the 1040 and supporting schedules) that you file with the IRS.   "on my schedule C my income is 45k" and "On my 1040, it says my taxable income is 0." - this is highly unlikely so I don't even want to guess what you mean.   Note that we in the Community cannot see your tax return nor the screen you are on, so please restate your question(s) in more detail. ... View more

You are smart to ask.   The problem is that the phrase "paid family leave" is bandied about in California to describe a lot of things that are not Paid Family Leave under the tax code of the state of California.   In brief, if your employer is paying it, it's not PFL as defined by the state tax code. The only possible exception is if your employer paid for a Voluntary Plan for Disability Insurance (VPDI) with an insurance company, then received the benefits on your behalf and then included it on your W-2. As you can see from the TurboTax FAQ on California PFL, this is highly unlikely, because the insurance company should have sent their own W-2 to you directly.   If your employer insists that this is what happened, I would encourage you to get it in writing before you file this return, because the default behavior of the CA FTB is to send out letters for any CA income adjustment that exactly matches a W-2, when the W-2 appears to be from your employer and not an insurance company.   You will mostly likely need to either remove that paid family leave check box in your W-2 interview, or enter '0' (zero) as the amount of the W-2 paid by your insurance company in the California interview.   ... View more