Hi Martha,
The reason I didn't think to try it sooner was that it sounded like it made things overcomplicated, and it generated some extra data on form 2210AI that scared me. But in actuality, it was just a matter of taking 15 minutes to add up and plug in the numbers that were easily available on my 1040 and 1099s, then TTax generated the rest. It took much longer to explain it than to actually do it.
I thought the nice thing is that it just refines your income amount for each quarter, and generates all the forms the IRS could want and need. It doesn't involve tricking TTax by doing overrides and changing values to zero so form 2210 is deleted. And if you just have simple flat income for the year, and no investments, then dividing up your AGI into 4 chunks just takes 1 minute and done.
Anyway, if this all helps one person, it was worth my time explaining it.
Goodluck,
Rob
