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For household employees: If I withheld social security, medicare, and state income tax (filed form W3 on paper), where to I report this within Turbotax?

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February 25, 2020
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TurboTax Deluxe Online

In order to indicate the taxes you have paid already during the year for your household employee (or others), you need to:

1. Go to "Deductions + Credits" (on the top bar)

2. Select "Estimates and Other Taxes Paid"

3. Select "Estimates"

4. Under "Estimated Tax Payments", select the first option "Federal estimated taxes for 2019 (Form 1040ES)"

And there you can enter the payments you have made during the year (each quarter).

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Hi - I did this, but the IRS came back and it appears that they're saying I HAVEN'T already paid my household employee taxes.

Example of what I think our refund calculation looks like:

A (taxes we owe as individuals working)

+ B (taxes we owe as an employer of a nanny)

= C (total taxes owed)

D (taxes our employers withheld from our paychecks)

+E (taxes we withheld and paid from our nanny's paychecks - includes both her and our shares of everything)

= F (total taxes paid)

Refund should equal F - C.

However, the IRS is only showing that we paid in D and not counting our E payments. We used a payroll service to collect, pay, and file our E payments. Is it possible something just got disconnected on the IRS side? Anyone have any ideas of whom to contact to fix?