@PatriciaV - Has this issue been resolved?
I did NOT find a way to enter anything into line 17 "Excess Real Estate Taxes" via the Step-By-Step approach in TT Premium. However, entering the prorated real estate deduction for the office into Real Estate Taxes right below "Excess Mortgage Interest" on the home office direct cost page in Step-By-Step seems to 'fix' the issue... by filling in Line 11 column a - at least in terms of correctly calculating costs.
It seems that you can circumvent the flag/inability to submit electronically that way and the tax effect is equivalent to what happened in years 2024 and before when one entered the full home RE taxes and the pro-rata was calculated by TT (and put in column b).
Should that be the solution until TT has fixed the issue or should one manually fill in line 17 "Excess Real Estate Tax" manually, instead, not using Step-By-Ste. I do not know what happens to flags/TT guarantee when a direct form fill-in is done (versus using step-by-step).
Please advise! Thanks!
@maryherndon54 , @Vanessa A , @grizz2
