Yes, understand that the fields/subfields/subforms are used for calculations - all of that makes sense when entering taxes for the current year.
When you want to start with last hears taxes that were NOT part of TurboTax (as one valid common use case,) it is reasonable to expect the ability to scan the previous years’s return (or if need be manually enter each form) with data from each field, field by field.)
This way you are starting with the EXACT same as the previous return. It is next to impossible to actually ‘recreate’ the tax return in TurboTax (using prior year software - even with simpler tax requirements) and get the results to match the submitted tax return on record.
So when those from Intuit have explained “how it works,” the explanations never address the actual and most basic use case of a customer needing to start from a spot where the data was not prelivioisly part of the TurboTax ecosystem. That would like Apple music software refusing to play nice with songs that were purchase outside Apple’s music ecosystem.
