To those who are having this same issue with the VT tax form, I will recap what I did to make this work for me.
I essentially started over again at the beginning, to fill out the VT tax return, using the step by step method. As you work your way through the questions, completing the answers that you own your own home, your ownership is 100%, then TT dumps you, incorrectly, into the rental property form when attempting to walk you through the steps for a possible property tax reduction.
At this step, I left the address of the "rental property" blank, clicked on continue to move to the next input page, entered the span number for my home property and entered "0" for the number of months I allegedly rented the property. Clicking continue brought up the form. I found near the bottom of the screen, near the left corner, 3 boxes which you could choose from. One said "delete form". I selected that, the form was deleted, and when I finished the rest of the tax form and filed, my return was accepted. I think the key with this is to go back far enough in the step by step process to have the "rental address" box appear, the span number box appear, the number of months rented box appear, input the values I described, and then delete the form using the options at the bottom of the form.
If its of any consequence, I use TT Premier loaded from a CD onto my laptop.
Give this a shot. Best of luck. I absolutely think this is a TT problem/bug. Why should you be asked for rental info when you own the property? Any bets on whether TT issues a bug fix? 🙂
JT
