@dmertz i can't say what they had in mind when writing the message, but it does state that I don't have earned income, which is incorrect. Plus it doesn't give any options for other types of deductions, applicable to my earned income. It is a screwy message.
How about the previous interactions about sep and simple where it kept telling me that i could deduct another $500, and kept upping the ante when I increased the deduction. Plus the worksheet for keogh/sep/simple had the maximum deduction filled in as 13600. Perhaps this was the target it was nudging me towards in $500 increments? Aside from the IRS page stating that maximum simple contribution was earnings plus 3000, with an upper limit of 13600. Misguided? misleading? Confusing? Wrong info?
Or it telling me that I couldn't do a roth since I had no earning? then looking at the froms view and it had the roth entry filled in with the amount I had suggested?
No other sections of tt are as confusing and misleading (screwed up?) as the business deductions section.
