Depreciation Schedule for Schedule F

[Alpaca]

My depreciation schedule did not import from last years TT (.tax2018) file.  Any help as to how to get it to import for my Schedule F

[MarilynG1]

A suggestion would be to Start a New Tax Return, and try the Import again.  Your Depreciation Schedule should import with your .tax file.

Click this link to request Phone Support. 

[Alpaca]

Unfortunately, this solution did not work. Intuit phone support, after many hours of trying, finally escalated this to upper tier level of support. They informed me that depreciation schedules had to be re-created every time since TurboTax would not carry over asset worksheets or depreciation schedules  from TT 2018 to TT 2019. Very disappointed to hear that you must re-create every asset entry worksheet  and then associated IRS form. There’s also no way to do a cut and paste from one year to another. Very disappointing.

[DoninGA]

@Alpaca If TurboTax support told you that assets and depreciation does not transfer from a prior year tax data file to the current year tax return,  then what they told you is absolutely incorrect.  That is one of the benefits for transferring tax data from the prior year to the current year with using a tax data file.

I have used TurboTax for years and have assets and depreciation on assets for rentals using Schedule E and business assets on Schedule C using the TurboTax desktop Premier software.  All the information transfers from one year to the next.

I notified a TurboTax Moderator to take a look at this post and investigate why you were told this.

For your situation starting a New Tax Return was the correct response to make sure the information transferred over properly.  If the information from 2018 was not transferred to 2019, then do you have more than one 2018 tax data file in the TurboTax folder? 

Do you still have the 2018 software installed?  If so, close the 2019 program, open the 2018 program and continue your 2018 tax return.  Verify that your 2018 return has all the Asset worksheets and the depreciation schedules.  Then save the 2018 tax return.  

Now start a 2019 New Tax Return and transfer the 2018 tax data file.  Your 2018 data should transfer over with no issues.

[RickG]

@Alpaca you may have already done this with the agent you spoke with over the phone, but would you be able to get us a Diagnostic file token for your 2018 and 2019 Business returns? I would like to look into this a little bit more. This is a scrubbed version of your returns, all personal data is removed.

Follow these instructions:

1. Open your return. ​
2. Click “Online” and select "Send Tax File to Agent". ​
3. This will generate a message that a diagnostic copy will be created. Click “OK”. The tax file will then be sanitized and sent to us. This action will generate a Token Number

4. Please respond directly to this message and provide the Token Number that was generated.