Question

My medicare wages exceed 9,999,999.99. This is because I have to pay FICA on all my deferred compensation once I turn 60. How do I enter a larger number in Box 5?

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January 21, 2020
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Turbo tax seems to have an upper limit on the number of digits we can enter in a box-- in this case it is the Medicare Wages box.

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xmasbaby0

Employee

Are you sure you have not misplaced a decimal point somewhere? If you had 10 million dollars of income what are you doing using do-it-yourself tax software?

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dmertz

Employee

TurboTax does not permit the entry of amounts of $10M or more.

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NCPERSON1

just split up the W-2 you received into two pieces as a work around... and the FICA is capped at about $120,000 times 6.2%; but yes, the medicare 1.45% never stops and of course there is the .9% ACA tax as well.

but as noted above, the workaround may be paying an accountant!........ and a tax accountant and an investment advisor and a financial planner and an insurance agent and an adoption lawyer (so we can figure out how to adopt me!) 😀