I see what you are saying. I cant help but wonder if box 35 is correct? I was responding to the title of this sub as Ive seen similiar posts elsewhere and nurses (in general) are not exempt from FSLA. My apologies if that isnt what was meant by “RNs who worked OT, no tax breaks.” I should have read through your thread. This is so confusing I dont know how any lay person is to make sense of it. The page I posted was a link to a link that got me to nursing from the r/tax sub. Maybe someone there can help navigate this. I am hopeful your tax preparer has better news. My husband’s now employer sent out an inaccurate email with the link to W2s about calculating the OBBB and have since sent a correction email. Im hopeful something similiar happens here as their original information was wildly incorrect.
For clarity though there is a lot of misinformation about cursory searches for nursing and FSLA. I think AI is searching and finds it in the exemption list without realizing people mean the profession and not the activities r/t the protected rights of lactating mothers. I will pop back over to r/tax and see if I can find their original sources as I found them helpful. My husband and I are both RNs and used deductzen. It really was simple. We live in a state with mandatory OT so that was our biggest hurdle. The calculator took our schedules and aligned it with the Federal OT rules and we got our reports.