Form TC-40w(1) Payer ID Error in Utah

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February 5, 2020
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I am having trouble with my state taxes filing (Utah). I keep getting this error "Form TC-40W(1) need a 14 character payer ID. Have a done all the advice in other discussions on here: to edit my w-2 & 1099-r, I have deleted them and typed them in again, I delete the whole state taxes and did those over again too with no success, I keep getting this message. any other tips for me?

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Lia3

lower case 'wth' worked for me too. What a waste of my time. 😞

4njenn

This is the 2nd year i'm getting this exact same error with the same employers W2. Last year I paid extra to "connect with an expert" only to find out I had the numbers exactly correct, the "expert" tried different things such as changing the "WTH" to lowercase, having me re-type in the number from scratch, all things people are discussing in this thread. I'm convinced TurboTax is putting this error in an effort to get people to use the expert pay more option, there is no way I will do this again. BIG FAT SCAM if you ask me. I've tried everything thats in this thread and nothing has worked. I will take my taxes to a local tax expert and pay about the same.

DawnC

Employee

The Utah withholding account number is a 14-character number. The first eleven characters are numeric and the last three are “WTH.” You have to change the WTH to wth to remove the error. Make sure that you are entering it in the correct spot - Employer's (or Payer's) State ID number, Box 15. And the numbers come first, then the 3 letters.

Do not enter hyphens or spaces. Example: 12345678901wth. 11 digits followed by wth. This happens on most Utah forms because the capital letters do not fit into the electronic form entry field. If you enter 11 digits followed by wth, you will not get that error. If you have more than one W-2 with Utah withholding, make this change on all of them.

You will need to do this on any forms that have a Utah Payer withholding ID; i.e, W-2's, 1099's, etc. See example below.

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4njenn

I did that, I just went back in to check again and it is lowercase. I only have the one W2 form of the number in question, no other forms. Where else would this number show up besides W2?

lorrent08

I am also having this issue and I also deleted my taxes and started over and I am still getting this message. This is very frustrating!

mesquitebean

Employee

@ lorrent08 wrote:
I am also having this issue and I also deleted my taxes and started over and I am still getting this message. This is very frustrating!

When you enter your Utah W-2, for the employer's state withholding ID you have to use lower case when you enter the wth (or wmp if it's for mineral withholding). And you have to do do that on all of your forms that have a Utah state employer ID number. All of your Utah W-2's and any Utah 1099's from a Utah payer, etc. that have state withholding on it.