other income taxes

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February 17, 2024
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I am experiencing a problem with "Other income taxes". This has erroneously included state and federal withholding. It should not include federal and state withholding taxes if they have already been declared on a 1099, W2, ... This erroneously qualified my return to use itemized deductions and gave me an inflated tax return. To work around this, I manually selected standard deduction. This gave the results I expected but left me unsure of the accuracy of my return. This is a bug and needs to be fixed. I hopefully worked around this issue but if someone is itemizing their deductions, BEWARE!

Best answer by SteamTrain

That's the problem, I did not enter those numbers, Turbo Tax mysteriously populated that entry. Sounds like a bug to me.

Yeah, that confuses people.

On the menu page, there is a $$ number showing the total of Fed&State withholding (local too if any), even if you didn't enter anything in the "Other" income taxes section.

It has displayed that way for many-many years....Perhaps TTX Display designers need to rethink whether to display those $$ there.

DawnC

Employee

Other income taxes is the total of all of your withholding from all forms, both federal and state. TurboTax pulls the numbers from the forms you enter. You do not need to enter the withholdings again.

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Suna1Author

Other income taxes should not include federal and state withholding if they already have been identified in a W2 or 1099. This will inflate the deduction amount and as in my case will falsely reduce my tax liability. I believe this to be a bug in Turbo Tax.

DawnC

Employee

You should not be entering anything in Other Income Taxes, as TurboTax is already pulling these numbers from the forms you entered. That section is for payments you made with an extension, withholding NOT reported on a form, and refunds from a previous year that you are applying to this year's taxes.

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