Well, of course it's a canned response...one that I wrote several years ago in response to a number of HSA issues in how the TurboTax product works in the HSA space.
"And I tried deleting the forms and they just go into some sort of incomplete state and don't really reset anything"
Hmmn, could you please be more specific? What did you actually do, and did you do the HSA RESET?
The reason I have you delete the W-2 is because so long as the W-2 with a code W in box 12 is in the return, then when you delete form 8889, it will reappear in a second.
If you do the first half of the HSA RESET (deleing the forms), and the 8889 won't go away, then tell me because there is a very rare case where another form will force the creation of the 8889.
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