Carl
Level 15

Investors & landlords

When a question is asked in 2019 why are the answers referring what you have to do with your 2018 Taxes?

Same reason that a question asked in 2020, is about your 2019 taxes. It's 2020 "right now" and physically impossible to be working your 2020 personal tax return, since the 2020 tax year isn't even close to over yet.

But take special note that the original question in this thread and the first response in this thread have the "same" "exact" date/time stamp down to the second. There's no way possible that first response was typed and posted within 1 second after the question was posted. So that's a good indicator this thread was copied over from the old forum platform. That means you really can't trust anything in that thread since that date/time is the date/time the thread was copied over, and not the date/time the thread wsa started. This thread could have actually be started as early as 2017 or 2018 for all we know.

This confusion with posting date/times is just another one of those things that those responsible for the transition failed to address prior to the transition to the new forum platform.