This was written as a reply to the posts on page 1 by
April 10, 2020 8:57 AM
It also applies, but less strongly to the post by
Employee TurboTax Specialist at
March 13, 2020 3:26 PM
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This is terrible advice. You could probably submit this advice to every single problem anyone has, and it would probably be more useful in most cases than it would be here (i.e., greater than zero).
This is a shameful programming bug, as confirmed carefully and reported earlier.
To go and tell someone to jump through a bunch of hoops, creating work and potential problems for themselves with no chance of improvement is irresponsible.
There should be an easier way than this for the community to help others by letting them know when a post has incorrect information.
And also, what is motivating so many people to post wrong answers? Do they earn points or something? I understand the employees are doing it for a paycheck, and they are wrong more often than most, but at least I can understand why they are doing it.
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regarding the theories about capital loss carryover, in my case it happened with no capital loss or carryover. Just a 1099-DIV and 1099-B (with gain) for a minor.
As confirmed earlier in this thread it is a clear programming bug, with pretty simple workarounds that seem to work for most people (did for me).
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I see this thread is now marked as "Solved." Was it really solved, or is it just because it is the next year they figure it is not worth fixing?
