Why is TurboTax asking for an amount it should already know? It appears that the question relates to non-deductible mortgage interest for taxpayers who itemize deductions. Why would TurboTax not know the answer to itemize or not if the mortgage interest amount would be fully deductible? This appears to be a bug in a sloppily designed and unnecessarily complicated set of questions that could be answered by TurboTax after it is possible to determine whether to itemize deductions or not.
If Step-By-Step and forms contexts could be synchronized, then it would be possible to step out to the form, go look for the answer, return to the form and then back to Step-By-Step. Otherwise, it is necessary to answer the same tedious questions over and over again.,
