You and me both. Maybe they fixed it after I sent them my return- 5 days ago? I don't know. Maybe it is not seeing my Long Term Capital gains as long term capital gains- despite me putting them in as such? It's too cumbersome to go through all the entries and figure out where things went wrong. Maybe if I started over and input the entire return again it would work correctly, but since I already filed using TaxAct, I'll just try again next year. Thank you for responding since TT never did get back to me.
Your numbers are clearly correct. Using my actual numbers my NIIT is 457, and total tax on line 45 is 3,947. The difference between the two returns is that TT calculates my tax on line 42 as $5,285 and TaxAct has it at $4. They both have the same Total Long Term Capital Gain in line 18c of 18,738 so not sure how they came up with such different calculations. The only difference I can see is that on TT the 18738 is entered under Beneficiaries column and in TaxAct it is under Estate and Trust. Not sure how that would impact it, but maybe that is a clue.
But like I said, I sent TT a scrubbed version of my return so they should be able to tell me where I went wrong- eventually. Again, thank you for taking the time to respond to me and for patiently trying to work through my issue. It was extremely generous of you.
