Bpex
Level 3

Self employed

For my own future reference and anyone else this helps (hopefully I am correct), this is if your state charges income, sales, real estate or personal property tax; AND you claimed any of that on your federal tax return; AND used the itemized deductions instead of standard deductions.

Why TurboTax can't make some of these explanations less complicated and/or transfer things over for us is beyond me. All they would have to do is look at some of the more common questions and topics people are having issues with, match them with the best answers, and link them to the topic in question. After figuring out each topic I was having an issue with, I could easily make up a way to explain them clearly in a manner that 99% of people would understand quickly vs the garble that TT spits out on some of them. SMH