@gguessa You spend a lot of time blaming TurboTax for issues that have nothing to do with the software or the company.
- The amount of medical expense required to"matter' in your return is a function of your total income - this can't really be determined for you unless and until you enter all of your data.
- Unless you know for certain that your total deductible items are less than your standard deduction, and most people do not have a clue, entering everything that you gave is the only way for the program to determine the best deduction for you.
- If you file electronically, the company name is NOT the only detail sent to the IRS - this is why the information is collected. It is required by the IRS when filing electronically
- An import/user error cannot be blamed on the software (doubling of numbers). This is either a function of user input or the company from which the data was imported.
- If a company did not provide you their EIN for income, you should report it as "other income". You are entirely mistaken that income under $600 does not need to be reported. It absolutely does need to be reported!!
- The IRS requires a phone number on your tax return. When you paper file, you can get by without it because what can they do? But a return that isnt complete cannot be electronically filed, and phone number is required for the return to be complete.
- This sounds again like a user error - How is TurboTax supposed to know if you make a typo? You are the only one with the actual form to compare the entries to. What warning did you want? Did you want it to reach through the screen and read your form and alert you that you typed it in wrong?
- every state software program is an entirely separate program that ties to the federal program to make things easier for the taxpayer. This is because every state has its own complete different forms, rules, tax rates, etc. I found it to be obvious where the apply to state refund goes in Alabama - but if it had taken me more than 10 minutes, I'd have just taken the refund and then mailed a check to the state. Problem solved.
