@PatriciaV
I want to make sure we're talking about the same things.
I understand that in order to get to where you can fill in the Auto-Enrollment Credit in Step by Step mode you need at least $1 in Startup costs. However, here you appear to be saying that even if we go into Forms mode and just claim the Auto-Enrollment Credit (Part II of Form 8881) there on the forms, it won't let us e-file unless we also have Startup costs either? Am I understanding that correctly? So the people who posted last year saying that once they added a 0 to Line 7 on Form 8881 in Forms mode they were able to file, those people must have also had Startup costs included?
Like @rn13 and @ramen dog I am completely dismayed by TurboTax's attitude toward this problem. This isn't just a feature that isn't working. TurboTax has actual incorrect information about the eligibility for the Auto-Enrollment credit that confuses it with the Startup Credit and is behaving based on that wrong information and sharing that wrong information with users. People one after another are reporting this for an entire year. Every sole proprietor who wants to take this credit for years to come will be unable to do so since we don't have employees or usually startup costs for this.
As for this year, I'm being told that all I can do is go through the work of entering and perfecting my entire tax return, fill out Form 8881 in Forms mode, only to press a button at the end and pray that it goes through. If it doesn't, I have to mail the form in which I find worrisome to do.
It seems like this issue is being blown off for some reason and I simply can't understand why. TurboTax is handling an entire credit for an entire category of people completely wrong and they barely seem to care.
