That worked. I did my contract-worker child's return (early 20s) and it got rejected. Been using TT for over a decade. The error in TT was that the AGI from 2019 did not match—though it WAS what I'd filed last year.
Using 0 did the trick.
NOTE: By late summer, they got a full refund of the self-employment tax they had paid—just a check with no accompanying explanatory communication. I now assume the IRS had adjusted their AGI to zero, yet never alerted us—or TT to that fact. A letter along with the check explaining that would have saved some time, stress, and bandwidth.
