Did file married jointly. And, did add the two amounts together. I entered that amount. But, my wife and I received the amounts. Yet, because I answered the question the total was reflected on the return and caused my tax liability to go down. Should not I have entered zero. Anyway, as a result, thought I was getting a refund, when in fact I now owe because of the error. If the amount would have been left at zero I would have owed, and that was okay, I would have accepted that. It was just a total surprise. My only question is really twofold. 1) Is there a software error or perhaps poorly worded question for the Rebate Credit and 2) how many TurboTax users have the same issue. Or, did the IRS screw up in the way the presented it? Maybe it would not have matter if it was a software app or not. I might have made the same error if I manually completed the Form.
Yesterday, as I started to research, I did see that many tax payers (something like 2.5 million) have the same issue. Whether they are TurboTax customers or not would be interesting to known.
