I am apologize in advance for the combination of questions and complaining that this will be...
For the first time in many years of e-filing with Turbotax, it is telling me I need to manually mail a form to complete the filing. Form 8453 generated and has a 'X' next to Form 8949, yet it didn't include an 8949 form as part of the document it generated for me to mail in. How about including the related one for simplicity?
When I look at the 8949 line on the 8453 form, it indicates "if you elect not to report your transactions electronically". I was never prompted to elect or not elect to do so. That would have been a nice pop up in the many checks that TT does. Something like "We can't report X transaction electronically because of Y issue, do you want to fix it or proceed as-is?"
Moving on...
I checked my normal tax documents TT generated on the next screen and see four 8949s. Am I supposed to print a specific one or all of them? If a specific one, how do I know which one?
Looking at other online questions about this scenario, I found comments about this happening to others because a summary was entered instead of individual transaction details, plus something about needing to also send the 1099-b that it is for.
Of my four 8949s, I do see one is related to some cryptocurrency that I didn't get a 1099-b for and ended up having to enter as a summary (since Turbotax desktop version doesn't support CSV import). So is that the only one 8949 I should be including in what I mail?
Also, do I send just 8949 (which was part of the filing) or do I also need to send the gain/loss report that it relates to. If both, why doesn't the TT instructions say that? Something like "Send the 8453, 8949, & supporting 1099b or similar document"?
