incorrect calculation for 2019. need correction

[cvsuri]

My income for 2018 was $78,000 and turbotax calculated $775 in taxes. In 2019 income was $82,000 and turbotax calculated $11,000 in taxes. In 2020 income was $86,000 and turbotax calculated a refund of $177.

I think turbotax made a mistake for 2019. How do I get someone to review it and redo it?

[Critter-3]

Print the returns and review them side by side ... where are the differences ?   Did you make a data input error ?  When you figure out what was incorrect you can amend it ...

See this TurboTax support FAQ for how to amend a tax return originally completed and filed using TurboTax - https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/amending/help/how-to-amend-change-or-correct-a-return-you-already-...

[cvsuri]

That's what I cannot understand. The tax liability calculated by turbotax is out of whack with 2018 and 2020 returns

[DoninGA]

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@cvsuri wrote:

That's what I cannot understand. The tax liability calculated by turbotax is out of whack with 2018 and 2020 returns

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Look at your Taxable Income, Total Taxes and Total Tax payments on the 2018, 2019 and 2020 tax returns.  Where do you see a large difference on the 2019 tax return?

[Critter-3]

Again "out of whack"  is hard to diagnose in a public forum ... the program does math calculations very well 99.9% of the time ... the variable would be the user making an input error 99.9% of the time or just not understanding the situation.   

So put the returns side by side ...  what increased the taxes?   Were you self employed that year ?  Did you have to pay back some or all of the Obamacare credit ?   Was it a simply data entry error on the W-2 for the income or withholding ?   And why didn't you question this 2 years ago?  

[cvsuri]

2018 - AGI 77190, Taxable income 59,190, Tax 819

2019 - AGI 85526, Taxable income 65,505, Tax 11,008

2020 - AGI 81738, Taxable income 63,088, Tax 423

Can't understand why the big jump in 2019, everything else being the same.

[cvsuri]

The reason I didn't question this 2 years ago was I was suffering from severe depression for a number of years and my MD had put me on new meds a year before. And I didn't realize that I was having strange side effects from the drugs. I went away to my home country for a year since then, stopped my meds until things cleared up and returned recently. I'm a lot more with it now and have realized the strange discrepancy in the tax paid in 2019.

[Critter-3 · Accepted solution]

Still not enough ... is the 2019 tax on one line only ?   Or is it  a combination of multiple lines ?   Was this a year when you did not claim  dependents ?   Were there credits (or lack of them)  involved ?   Actually the 2019 year is the only one making sense right now. 

I highly suggest you talk to someone in person locally as figuring this out on a forum is not the most effective method.  

Don't know if TT support will be any help but you can try them ... contact details can be found here