Where to enter United Nations Wages for US Permanent Resident?

[Lewis Bx]

Taxpayer is a US person filing form 1040.  The UN does not issue W2s, they provide income statements.  Wages paid by the UN should be reported on form 1040, line 1h, Other Income.  (Not on Sch 1, line 8z, Other Income.) When we called Lacerte they said to enter the UN wages on screen 14.1, Alimony and Other Income, Excess Salary Deferrals.  Entering the wages here does push them to 1040 1h, but also attaches a statement to the return describing the wages as Excess Salary Deferrals, which is incorrect.  

Does anyone else have this issue?

[itonewbie]

You're supposed to report that as wages.  Agree it should theoretically go to Line 1h on the new F.1040, except PTO has not programmed an input to that line yet, AFAIK.  Line 1a is still where you should report that in PTO.  Reporting the income as something other than wages may impede your client's ability to claim tax reimbursement, as per the UN's policy.

The conundrum is that you will need an EIN to e-file.  But the UN doesn't include that on their Statement of Taxable Earnings.  It was suggested in a previous multi-year thread that the employee can approach the UN for the EIN to use.  That's not conclusive though:

https://accountants.intuit.com/community/proseries-tax-discussions/discussion/united-nation-does-not...

According to guidelines provided by the UN, staff is supposed to be able to e-file - that should mean that there is an EIN staff can use.

Would suggest that you have your client confirm the availability of an EIN with the UN.  It would be great if you can come back and update the group on what you find out.

Push comes to shove, you can try ignoring the critical diagnostic and see whether the return can be e-filed since there's no withholding to match up.  What's the worst that can happen, right?  You can always paper file if nothing works.

[lewis bronx]

Very helpful, thank you.  I'll update if I get an EIN.

[itonewbie]

NP, @lewis bronx.  Do come back to update us whether your client is successful in getting the EIN from the UN.  Thanks!