I appear to have made some progress on the issue of TurboTax stepping me through the renters property tax credit form HR146. I'll qualify this by stating that previously when I have had my 4 submitted VT tax returns rejected, the rejection notification came 5 minutes after my submission, consistently.
On my last attempt, when stepping through the rental form, when I got to the address box for the "rental property address", I left that box blank. I did enter the span # for the address from my tax bill and entered 0 for the number of months rented at the blank address. Clicking continue generated the form. I then noticed at the bottom of the form screen an option to "delete form". I did this, saved the tax file, completed the rest of the review and submitted my VT tax form for the 5th time. It has now been 1 hour and 35 minutes without any rejection notice received by text or email. This gives me cause for hope that the return may be accepted.
So stepping through the renters form, leaving the rental address blank, filling in the span #, entering 0 months of rental, generating the form, then deleting the form, may be the work around to the bug that TurboTax seems to have on this issue. It would seem that if you have already entered the information that states you own your property and have resided there for the full year, the rental form shouldn't even be generated to be completed. It would seem like that problem should be fixable by TurboTax.
I'll re-post after I receive notification of acceptance or rejection of my VT return.
JT
