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I need to report a serious error in the application. The application is making a huge mistake. It is calculating the interest I paid for my mortgage into my taxes paid. My total itemized deductions i

My total itemized deductions is completely off which in turn is impacting my tax refund.
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I need to report a serious error in the application. The application is making a huge mistake. It is calculating the interest I paid for my mortgage into my taxes paid. My total itemized deductions i

Are you sure you aren't recording it as interest that you received?

I need to report a serious error in the application. The application is making a huge mistake. It is calculating the interest I paid for my mortgage into my taxes paid. My total itemized deductions i

Thank you for your question. I am very sure I put the mortgage interest paid in the correct spot. If I could bring up my Form1040 8a, I know for a fact it’s not populating correctly. I don’t know how to fix it. 

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I need to report a serious error in the application. The application is making a huge mistake. It is calculating the interest I paid for my mortgage into my taxes paid. My total itemized deductions i

There is not enough detail to address your question but here is some information on line 8a that might be of assistance.  If this does not help, please reach out again with details and we will resolve the problem.

 

If there is a refi and there was an outstanding mortgage principal listed in both of them on Line 2 on the 1098. When you do put an outstanding balance in both forms, then the program adds them together and if that number is greater than $750k, then it puts you in the category to "limit interest". To get that to go away, you need to go back to the deductions section and click on "edit" mortgage interest statement. Change the line 2 of the mortgage that you no longer owe on (like the one that you refinanced and paid off) to a 0 (zero) because you have refinanced out of that loan and no longer have an "outstanding mortgage principal". Once you change one of them to zero (the one that was paid off by the refinance) then it should no longer pop up with that error at the end when you go to file. 

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