It is not a defect for tax year 2021.
There are people who have received Advance Child Tax Credit Payments but are no longer qualified for the 2021 Child Tax Credit and may need to repay those payments. The IRS wants to be sure Taxpayers who received those payments report that information on their 2021 tax Year return. If they no longer have dependents, the question would never come up.
TurboTax incorporated the question in the Step-by-Step interview in the Online programs, and implemented Form 8812 in the Desktop programs since some Taxpayers are able to navigate through Forms rather than Step-by-Step.
It may seem like an inconvenience, but considering the cost of people "forgetting" to report the advance payments and the IRS having to track them down, it was decided that asking about form 8812 when no dependents are listed was the smarter route.
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