My employer pays $12,000 a year for my family's health insurance; on exchange, it's $4,634

[SheilaT]

10. Where on the W2?

I'm looking at an old one -- can't lay my hands on my most recent return, for some reason -- and these are the categories I see:

wages, tips, and other compensation
federal income tax withheld
social security wages
social security tax withheld
medicare wages and tips
medicare tax withheld

and then there are two other boxes that have monetary amounts in them that are somewhat mysterious. One says: see instructions for box 12, and the capital letter E, the other simply has the capital letter W. They are two different amounts, the one labelled E is a little more than nine times the one labelled W. The larger one might possibly be around what my company puts in for my insurance, but if it is, they're getting an enormous bargain because it's under a thousand dollars.

How very interesting.

I have a professional do my taxes, because I have investments and stuff that makes if more complex than I want to deal with, so I've never paid much attention to those other odd amounts.