To sum up everything I've read here, the only workable solutions currently for people using the online system:
- If you owe taxes you can say YES to the deferral and then set the amount you want to defer to zero.
- If you have a refund coming you can't say yes to the deferral, you'll have to enter zero on line 18 of the SE. Even though this is technically wrong, it is immaterial to the return. If you've already entered another number, you'll have to delete the SE and then re-enter the income data that went on it (if necessary). Mine auto-regenerated from my Sched C data. And then enter zero on line 18 when prompted during the verification check.
Other than that, you just have to wait for Intuit to program the ridiculously simple fix to this problem. Whenever they get around to it.
