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Yes, there are a number of TT problems that many have run into that TT has not addressed or fixed. Many of us have spent countless hours of frustration due to them.
I can't say exactly what is causing your 8949 e-file problem but I can give you some things to check.
To see what I am suggestion you will need to Go To Forms. If you either manually entered or imported sales transactions from your broker, you will see a Form 1099-B Worksheet for each broker. Check it out, does it look right to you after comparing it to the 1099-B you actually received from your broker?
This worksheet populates the 8949 form(s) automatically (you may see more one 8949 but that is a function of whether the sales are long or short and whether or not the cost basis was reported to the IRS). You can not enter any information directly on form 8949. So you may find that you have 8949's even though you never completed them. If so, you can print those and attached them to the 8453. Job done!
The second question is to why the 8453 gets generated in the first place. In this thread you will find that under some circumstances you can "aggregate" a number of sales transactions into one. In this case the e-file option instructs to send the actual individual transactions to the IRS. However, this seems odd since the IRS already has the 1099-B from your broker. But whatever.
Many other people who did indeed list all the individual transactions and see them on the 8949s also get this same message. One condition as you can see above is if you made any corrections to basis. If you did then again you get the 8453 to send in the 8949s.
I also received the 8453 to send in the 8949s. But of course the 8949s where part of my e-file so this seems like potentially another instantiation of a TT error. In my case, I was concerned that TT in it's e-file process condensed or aggregated data. I have no way to verify what exactly TT e-filed. If they did something that changed the 8949s that's a big bug. But it's not clear. So even though everything was clean on my 8949s (no aggregate transactions and no change to basis) I still got the message. So TT is flagging something that it shouldn't. Anyway, I sent (another copy) of the 8949s with the 8453. Job done too.
I'd wish TT would fix this stuff. But in the meantime check if you have 8949s and send them as instructed with the 8453. IMO it's the fastest and easiest solution.
