Critter.... I already addressed your annotated screen shots from the TurboTax web site yesterday.
Here it is AGAIN....
1) The IRS has NO written guidance on this topic. NONE! There's NOTHING from the IRS on this topic.
2) Since the IRS has NO guidance on this topic, aren't you inclined to wonder WHERE Turbo Tax is getting their information? They aren't getting it from the IRS because the IRS has said NOTHING on this topic.
3) You are quoting the TURBO TAX web site, NOT the 'IRS regulations' as you previously claimed. There are NO IRS REGULATIONS for this scenario. TurboTax has NO information that is any different from the information that anyone else has.
4) TurboTaxe's notations in your screen shot says "AMENDED RETURN'. It DOES NOT say to file a Form 1040X. The $1 VS $0 distinction that you are making is what's called "a distinction without a difference".
5) If you had put any effort at all into critical thinking, you aught to be wondering....
- How is it possible for TT to know more about IRS 'regulations' than the IRS does? (pssst... they don't)
- TurboTax is a repository of good information... SOMETIMES. Other times TT is dead wrong about some things. You are acting as though TurboTax is infallible. They are VERY fallible.
- How is it that Turbo Tax is publishing information that the IRS ITSELF has not published yet. Seriously... how is that even possible?
- Why doesn't all of these considerations even occur to you as a problem? These are HUGE and glaring problems. TT is claiming something, and you are repeating this something, that has never been determined, or published by the IRS?
- I have suggested to you on MULTIPLE posts that you ACTUALLY LOOK at a Form 1040X. There is NO PROVISION on that form for the set of circumstances that these filers are faced with. The Form 1040X DOES NOT WORK in this case. This scenario DIDN'T EXIST at the time of the publishing of the Form 1040X.
