Utah State form isn't accepting the 14 digit employer State ID number. How can I fix it?

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January 20, 2021
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Federal forms had no issues with the State ID numbers.

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MayaD

It won't really matter what you input in Box 15 Employer ID, as long as the software will accept it. What really matters is the Employer Federal EIN. You can try to leave Box 15 empty or if TurboTax program asks you for a state ID number in a specific format, then enter a value that conforms to that format.

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SteamTrain

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@inspectorclayton

....someone somewhere in here said that the final three letters (WTH ?) will take Ok if you use lower case "wth"

Just make sure you put in the first numbers and the final letters without a hyphen.

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Jenichase

this worked! change the WTH to lower case wth it worked for me.

Jhoffniw

Thank You! We are trying this now. Spent 1.5 hours with an “experienced” Turbo Tax person in customer support last night and not a clue what to tell us. 🤪Good thing there is a community.

mmccluskey1

Continue without fixing

tmunoz

If box 15, State Employer ID, is blank on your W-2, your e-file return should still go through just fine, as long as there are no other errors on your return. Your state department of revenue will be able to easily identify your employer from their 9-digit federal EIN, so the state ID number is a little redundant anyway, but is still a way that your state tracks employers in their internal state computer system.

If you are receiving an error for box 15, try using the federal ID in that box or if the state requires a particular format, such as ending in XYZ, then enter 99999999XYZ for the number of digits it specifies. In Utah, there should be 11 numerals followed by WTH (in capitols) with no dash.

If the error persists , try deleting the form and reentering it. If you have "copied and pasted" to enter some of the information, it might have spaces or other invisible formatting characters that are causing the errors. Please be sure there are no extra spaces before the entries or after the entries. If you have imported into Turbo Tax, perhaps some of the data was damaged in the transfer and is not working properly, even if it looks correct on the page. Deleting the W-2 and manually entering it should solve the problem.