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Deductions & credits
TurboTax gives you a choice of going through all the topics, or selecting the topics you want to work on. Most people choose to select topics because they only need a small number of the topics that are included in the software. But if you choose to select topics, it's up to you to make sure you visit all the topics that apply to your tax return.
You also have the ability to leave a topic before you get to the end. If you do that, you don't see all of the questions.
Also note that several of the provisions of the CARES Act, including the deferral of Social Security tax, had to be incorporated into TurboTax in a last-minute rush. The IRS didn't issue the final forms and instructions until late December 2020 or early January 2021. By then the preliminary TurboTax 2020 program was already released and in use, and the start of filing was imminent. There wasn't time to consider alternative designs and refine the flow of the interview, or to do any user-interface testing. All the tax software companies did the best they could under the circumstances, but they couldn't give it the amount of thought and care that they would usually put into a new element, and they all have some rough edges.