Thanks, I think your response is correct; however, I believe that the way this is implemented in the TurboTax step-by-step instructions needs to be improved. In my opinion, there should be a direct one-to-one correspondence between the data entered in the step-by-step and the data entered on a form. There shouldn’t be any “behind the scenes” manipulation of the step-by-step data that isn’t completely transparent to the user.
For example, I entered salary data and health insurance data separately which was probably incorrect from a tax perspective as you pointed out, but TurnoTax decided on its own to combine those amounts without any warning to me or explanation of why it was doing that.
For the TurboTax product to be effective, I believe thst the step-by-step input process should be better designed to be more user-friendly to non-accountants like myself.
