We tried each of these scenarios and they were all rejected by the IRS:
Same prior year full AGI for each of us
Made 3 guesses at dividing up the prior year AGI between the 2 of us
Full AGI for husband and 0 for wife
Full AGI for wife and 0 for husband
What finally passed the IRS test was entering 0 for each of us. The tax return was accepted by the IRS.
Zeros for each of us makes no sense but neither does the fact that the prior year filing was done with Turbo Tax and the same information was imported into this year's Turbo Tax. Seems the software should know that we filed jointly last year and that we're filing jointly this year. Turbo Tax should ask the right questions.
