marimb
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Real Estate/Property Tax Error

Edit: Never mind, I figured it out. We omitted the property taxes in a different area of the return by accident. Adding it in fixed the issue.

 

While reviewing my return before filing, TurboTax said there was an error which showed that the property/real estate taxes I paid in 2022 was a negative number.

 

I have a home office in a home that I own and so I entered both my real estate/property taxes and mortgage interest as "excess" when filling out the home office section. I went back to the "Property (Real Estate) Tax" section under "Deductions and Credits" to try to fix this error. It says "Don't enter your home office deduction", and I mistakenly put the total amount of taxes in there the first time, so now I'm trying to put "$0" in this section. However, when I do that and click "Continue", a screen comes up that says "We need a bit more info to see if you qualify", and when I click "Enter Info", it brings me back to the same form that I just tried to enter "$0" in. If I click "Skip for Now", it goes back to the main "Deductions and Credits" section and the negative number is still there.

 

We are taking the Standard Deduction, so I don't even know if this section really needs to be filled out, but I don't want the error in there when I file. How do I fix this?