Thanks @termj for your reply. It seems that you are suggesting me to add 8615 to my tax return, but I thought that was to file with my child's. That was how TT did it last year anyway.
Perhaps more background of how I came to this situation:
- New 2022 return for child, importing data from their 2021 TT file.
- TT created 8615 in 2022 return (of child) as part of the import.
- Worked on 2022 return (of child), inputting new data, etc. In particular I entered my taxable income into line 6 of 8615.
- TT flagged errors in 8615 during error check. I think the first error was that parent's middle initial should be blank, but all the fields with value were in red.
- Couldn't get past the 8615 errors, so I tried to delete it for a fresh form.
I suspect that somehow by #4, TT had decided that 8615 was not needed.
