That's the problem- there is no error code. The software is treating the return as if it only has 4 pages and thus, is simply preparing the return as if there are no other pages. The remaining 8 pages simply do not exist. I then went to the Montana web site to see how one prepares a return if one is a non-residence. I compared what TT has in its program to what the actual return on the MT tax website says is the official return and discovered that TT has an incomplete return. So, TT taxes 100 percent of income as MT income, even though most of the income should be taxed in home state of CO. This is because the nonresident portion of the return is missing on TT.
This then creates a problem for my CO return since it too is being incorrectly prepared b/c MT is incorrectly getting all our tax money. Since TT does not let me delete the return, I am going to be forced to file both returns by hand- despite paying for both CO and MT returns.
FYI, I spent an hour with a TT representative who concurred with my assessment that the MT return was in fact missing 8 pages on the TT software. She reported it to the tech people about a week ago. I am hoping that this problem will be fixed so I can file my taxes in MT and CO correctly. I am going to check back next week to see if the missing pages are included.
