Thanks for your thoughts, but no, I did not enter the mortgage balance anywhere (on purpose) and the program went ahead and properly used the mortgage interest I entered for schedule A without requiring any additional information.
The only way I knew that a mortgage principal balance was being used was when I saw it on the mortgage interest worksheet. Again, I did NOT input anything to do with a mortgage balance on any forms and this is my first year of using Turbotax so it can't be from a prior Turbotax year.
I cannot imagine how Intuit got my mortgage principal balance if I never input it on any form and this is very alarming as to the privacy of my data if it is coming from an outside source. Where are they getting this information if I didn't give it to them? Who can tell me?
