Like previous posters, I tried to file my returns earlier this week, which were rejected because
of form 8801. I updated TurboTax this morning, but because I did not see any change, I did not
submit my return. Instead, I called TurboTax support which was worthless and tried to blame the
8801 issue on the IRS. Later this afternoon, after reading the posts on this board, I went through form
8801 again and resubmitted. The Federal return was accepted within 40 minutes. This is the second year
in a row that TurboTax has bugs (last year, it did not keep track properly of estimated taxes paid during the
year and I wasted an entire day to get around this problem-- again the phone support was worthless).
TurboTax has some nice features, like downloading 1099s, but if these problems keep occurring, I will need to consider switching to TaxAct.
