[I’m linking this to your previous response so that you can forward it to the TT software gurus. I’m afraid it is too late for 2020 returns, sadly.]
05/09/2021
When we purchase TURBOTAX Deluxe Cd/Desktop (Windows) and it says right on the box that it includes one free state return, how in the world are we supposed to know that not all the forms needed for our state return are going to be printed before we send the state return in snail mail? We are paying for both our Federal and State returns to be generated in compliance with the tax laws.
When I go through the itemizing steps during Federal input and TurboTax then says Standard Deductions are to my advantage, TurboTax is still supposed to feed the itemized numbers into our State returns. In my case, before I even started working on my State return, TT told me that Married, Filing Separately was best (spouse only lived two months of 2020). Indeed, I eFiled Federal before beginning the State return and my printed Federal copy included a COMPLETED STATE RETURN, MARRIED, FILING SEPARATELY! I did not plug in those numbers; those numbers were generated by TT from the Step-by-Step during Federal prep. I had carefully entered each non-cash contribution item into It’s Deductible that evidently came with my software. The total added up to over $500 and that amount is showing on my State return BUT still no 8283 is on my FORMS list nor did one print out when I concluded entries for my State return. Montana Dept. of Revenue states that Form 8283 must be sent with the return.
When we do the laborious work of typing in a whole wardrobe of clothing donated to charity, piece by piece for valuation, that time and effort should be on an 8283 for our state returns or at least the names and addresses of the accepting charities should be on an 8283.
Thank you for reading this and I hope you hand it off to whomever can fix this problem before the 2021 TurboTax software blankets office supply stores and Amazon in February, 2022. I truly appreciate all the help I received on this board over the last seven weeks for without it I would never have gotten this far. A few too many TT software glitches but the I.R.S. didn’t help matters either.
