"TurboTax never asks me this question."
Then either:
1 ) You didn't use the appropriate step by step interview, or
2) You stopped too soon in the "Stocks, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Other" interview.
That interview and the action of reporting the compensation and asking if it's on the W-2 has been virtually unchanged for at least 10 years.
"TT (Home & Business) will not let me remove the adjustment."
I'm not sure exactly what "adjustment" was made and by what or whom. If say delete the trade, enter it manually working through the appropriate step by step interview and don't stop when you seem to have entered everything for the trade itself. Keep clicking on "Continue" or "Done" or whatever comes up and you will eventually come to that "Your Employee Stock Plan Results." (I think that's the name of that page.)
