@pk thank you for following up. Apologies if I was unclear before, but I found in the online version that:
- the form box references for parent's income in the 8615 questionnaire (Line 😎 were incorrect (as they referred to forms we didn't use in computation of our taxes e.g. QD/CGT worksheet). This issue I resolved by doing the 8615 computations myself using the downloaded version of the instructions.
- the references to schedule D that confused me were in reporting sibling unearned income (we have two kids). Here I had no idea what, specifically, the questionnaire was asking me, since I had already entered the sibling capital gains tax values in the previous question, and neither sibling had to file Schedule D.
Please don't waste any more time on this, I think it's a lost cause - TT seems to become more opaque and less relevant to me every year, so I think I'm not going to throw any more money at it from now on.
