Reporting Employer-Provided Assistance
If your employer provided you with any dependent care assistance
in 2014, it should have been reported in Box 10 of your W-2 Form.
If more than $5,000 was provided, the extra amount is taxable and
should have been included in Box 1 of the W-2.
To report this
amount, you need to complete Parts I and III of Form 2441, Child
and Dependent Care Expenses, if you are filing Form 1040 or Form
1040A.
Note that either of these forms will ask you whether
you forfeited any benefits this year; that is, whether you had more
deducted from your paycheck than you were able to claim reimbursement
for. If you have a forfeiture, you don't have to pay taxes on this
amount. However, if the amount you had withheld from your paycheck
was more than your total wages (or those of your spouse, if married,
which is the more likely scenario) you can only deduct the dependent
care assistance up to the amount of the wages earned. Anything above
that amount would be taxable and must be included in your taxable
income amount on Line 7 of your Form 1040 or 1040A.
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