The "Social Security Benefits Worksheet" in Turbo Tax directs that the number in box 5 of SSA-1099 ("Total net benefits from Box 5 of all SSA-1099 forms") be put on BOTH line A and line F.
Line F is an exact repeat of Line A. If line F is supposed to be a total of lines A through E, it does NOT say that, and the worksheet does not automatically bring the number down. This is really poor form design.
Moreover, even when I leave line F empty, the rest of the worksheet comes up with a number $2,175 higher as taxable SS income than the IRS worksheet I downloaded ("Social Security Taxable Benefits Worksheet (2022)").
This misleading if not outright incompetent form work makes me question the accuracy of everything else in the software. I have been doing my own taxes for years (I'm an attorney, but I don't practice tax law [god forbid]); I have been using this software since it was MacInTax, and I find it has become increasing difficult to use. The cross linkages are less intuitive and mistakes like the above are easy to make and miss.
