If box 15, State Employer ID, is blank
on your W-2, your
e-file return should still go through just fine, as long as there are no other
errors on your return. Your state department of revenue will be able to
easily identify your employer from their 9-digit federal EIN, so the state ID
number is a little redundant anyway, but is still a way that your state
tracks employers in their internal state computer system. The state
employer ID number is a bureaucratic convenience for your state's department of
revenue; it is not an essential element to the correct filing and processing of
a valid personal income tax return (either state or federal).
If you are receiving an error for
box 15, try using the federal ID in that box or if the state requires a
particular format, such as ending in XYZ, then enter 99999999XYZ for the number
of digits it specifies.
If the error persists
, try deleting the
form and reentering it. If you have "copied and pasted" to
enter some of the information, it might have spaces or other invisible
formatting characters that are causing the errors. Please be sure there
are no extra spaces before the entries or after the
entries. If you have imported into Turbo Tax, perhaps some of the
data was damaged in the transfer and is not working properly, even if it looks
correct on the page. Deleting the W-2 and manually entering it
should solve the problem.
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