What do I enter for the "let's review your box 14" entry when Box 14 has 3 entries, 2 of which are not recognized

[JimboBigbelly]

the 2 unrecognized codes are ESPPD (Employee Stock Purchase Plan) and RSU (Restricted Stock Units)

[TomYoung · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure why you're getting that "let's review your Box 14" entries.

In the main Box 14 is simply a "memo" box where your employer tells you some information about your W-2.  In this case your employer is telling you the amount of compensation created by your Disqualifying sale of some stock acquired via an ESPP and the amount of compensation created by the vesting of the RSUs that's included in your Box 1 amount. 

So if you have an annual salary of $50,000, created $175 dollars of compensation because of your sale of stock acquired via the ESPP and received 40 shares of company stock when the stock was trading at $33 a share for compensation of $1,320, your Box 1 amount would be $51,495.

But, typically, entering information in Box 14 into TurboTax or not entering this information into TurboTax at all has no effect on your income tax return.  So if you want to enter those amounts into TurboTax use a "tax category" of "Other - not on above list", or simply delete what you've already entered.  Either way should have no effect except to stop TurboTax from asking about them.

Tom Young