incorrect calculation for 2019. need correction

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
February 14, 2022
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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?

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Best answer by Critter-3

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.

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

Critter-3

Level 15

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-...

cvsuriAuthor

Level 3

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

cvsuriAuthor

Level 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?