BillM223
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Get your taxes done using TurboTax

OK, It too me a while to prove it, but I found where you can do am override to change the amount of unearned income.

 

If you have the TurboTax Desktop product, you can go into Forms mode (upper right), and go look for the 8516. In Part I on Line 1, you should see your unearned income, which you believe should not be greater than $2,700. Put your cursor on that field and click with right mouse button. This should should you a pulldown. Choose Override. Then enter your number into that field. The right of the form will update. Some stuff may stay there, but I imagine that lines 15-18 will go blank.

 

Two large caveats:

1. This will probably void the TurboTax Accuracy Guarantee. In short, this is now on you (as I noted, at this point, I am not sure if you are right or not).

2. Overrides can prevent e-filing (you won't know until you try).

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