Originally Posted by
calmwinds
Talk to a CPA. A tax attorney is overkill. If you received the payment in one year and repay it in the next, the rules changed with the new tax law. You need to talk with someone who knows what to do. More than likely, as I have seen with the tax law, you are screwed.
While I agree you should talk to a CPA, you should receive a corrected w2. As long as you have as much earnings as you have to pay back and don’t have a negative number it should be fairly straight forward. The big issue is SSI as there is no normal mechanism that you would file for a refund. The company has to refund that to you (or in this case get it back from the govt for you). I have had that done and when I entered info into TurboTax based on an estimate, it flagged the SSI amount and said to contact the employer for correction.