I am trying to understand what my taxable amount is from social security. I went through the TurboTax worksheet for social security but that just caused more confusion so I went directly to the IRS worksheets in 915. Going through the IRS 915 Worksheet A, I was directed to go to IRS 915 Worksheet 1 (married filing jointly with $32,000 as the base amount). This is what was expected and exactly what TurboTax had done.
In Worksheet 1, I started following the steps and was getting the expected answers exactly as TurboTax had done until I got to step 7 in Worksheet 1 which says
| 7. | Enter the total of the amounts from Schedule 1 (Form 1040), lines 11 through 20, and 23 and 25 |
TurboTax has this value as $0 in its worksheet. I have a lots of numbers in these lines; some being added together; some being substracted and then added together - but out of all the many ways I tried to calculate this value, I could not get $0.
How should this instruction be read? Or better yet, how did TurboTax calculate this number?
