I also had this EXACT problem for tax year 2024!! The MASSACHUSETTS TT software is not asking me what my income was in each quarter and what my actual taxes paid in each quarter were!! Hence, the PROPER penalty can not be computed !. (Form M2210 is thus wrong). Since my income is mostly at the end of the year and NOT distributed evenly, and TT assumes it is the same in each quarter, TT computes a big penalty instead of the correct value (of ZERO!!)
Can TT management get this fixed for MASSACHUSETTS residents, otherwise my recommendation is that if people have uneven income, they need to buy H&R Block (or equivalent) software instead of TT! Terrible. I really like TT in every other way but TT needs to fix this ASAP!! Spend the resources necessary to this important bug fixed!
I respectfully submit this to TT management as a critical area to improve your product
