You are right that Turbotax wants me to file Form 2210 to prove to IRS that I don’t have to pay a penalty. Turbotax, though, errs in wanting me to fill out all of Form 2210 even though I do not have to. It also errs in requiring I fill out all of the form using the annualized installment method that requires income per quarter. This would be a nightmare especially since Form 2210 does not require this for my circumstances. Even if Turbotax wants me to fill out all of Form 2210, why couldn’t I fill it out without the quarterly entries? Turbotax asked me if I wish to fill the form out that way, and I responded NO.
I wonder if I could fix this problem by deleting Form 2210 and then asking Turbotax to re-enter it? I could respond to Turbotax questions and Turbotax could redo the calculations for the form and, hopefully, correctly determine that I did not need to fill out the other parts to Form 2210. IF not that, maybe it could at least tell me I do not have to fill out the quarterly method of reporting.
Recall that in an earlier filing of Form 2210, I asked Turbotax to use the annualized installment method; maybe Turbotax is stuck with my first request to do that method. Would deleting Form 2210 from Turbotax and reentering Form 2210 update Form 2210 to exclude the annualized installment method?
