jasavala
New Member

How can we use the 2017 software to help estimate the tax due to Federal and State before Jan. 15, 2018?

I bought the 2017 Deluxe version to help me not only with estimating this but also deciding on some optional end of year transactions that I can do to reduce overall taxes.   However, I find that there is no such feature that lets you enter YTD actuals and either automatically do pro rata estimates for balance of the year or let you enter it.  Software assumes that the year is finished and we have actual W-2 and 1099 forms data. I did try doing manual entry of my own estimates, but there are some fields that the software wants entered (such as EIN) which should be skippable.  It can make these fields mandatory for tax filing when it does the Final review.  If you don't have this feature why do you sell the software before Dec. 31?