Retirement tax questions

Well it turns out that through the use of our dialogue in the forum I was able to determine that entering $8000 in both data fields achieved the result of the appropriate deduction.  

 

The question is why do I need to tell Intuit that I am contributing between 1/1 and 4/15?  If that data is important, perhaps the technical support team should make the appropriate adjustments to clarify the required data inputs for customers, so that deduction is calculated if the customer is qualified.

 

No offense VolvoGirl, but the idea of a desktop version is so 2023...  If I had an emoji to use, it would be a smiling salute.