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I took a look at the MA Instructions; "Traditional IRA Distributions are taxable for both Massachusetts and federal tax purposes if the distribution exceeds the amount of IRA contributions that were previously subject to tax."   Here's how I read it.     MA has its own rules for IRA distributions differing from IRS. This means the standard trick -- "Backdoor" Roth IRA contribution --  in MA may not be tax free. If you have an empty Traditional IRA and attempt a backdoor Roth IRA contribution via conversion, it will be taxable in MA.   Reason: your Traditional IRA basis  (which came into existence only momentarily and vanished )  had not been previously taxed by MA. Therefore, TurboTax is doing it correctly.   @riccardodalla  @user17710097333  @bryonthego     

Exact same thing happened to me. I was ready to file, only to find that my order was set to Expert Assist, even though I never asked for, needed, or used on-demand expert help. The only option to potentially change this was to clear everything and start over. I decided if I needed to start over I may as well use a different service. I was able to upload last year's PDF into H&R Block online, re-enter my information for this year in about an hour, and get the EXACT SAME result but pay $150 to H&R Block (federal $65 plus 2 state returns each $49, minus a $13 online coupon) instead of $267 to TurboTax (federal $129 plus 2 state returns each $69).

Hello,   Thank you for the step-by-step instructions. However, the rental property asset and depreciation information always transferred from year over year, automatically by TurboTax. The only manual entry was if there was a new asset that needed such as renovation, etc. So, I believe the person who wrote the original post, as well as I, am really seeking for this information transfer by TurboTax, like it used to for so many years.   Could you please help restore this functionality or escalate to whom might be able to?   Thank you, Michael

Hi Patricia,   Thank you for your response. I confirm that I have tried clearing my return and starting over. I cleared and restarted on TurboTax AND cleared browser history and tried on multiple browsers: Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.   For many previous years, the rental property asset information simply transferred over from year over year. I have never had to manually enter rental property asset information, unless I was adding an renovation, etc. For current year, none of the previous years' rental property asset information is transferring over.   I have confidence in TurboTax and trust that you or somebody on your team can fix this.   Thank you, Michael

@Lemgirl58 because that executive order is "squisky".   If you requested a paper check for your refund, you will receive a letter from the IRS explaining how to provide your banking information so they can electronically send you the refund.   if you ignore the letter, they will send the paper check around 4-6 weeks later.    The IRS is caught between the executive order and the fact that the IRS is required to pay interest on any refund held for more than 45 days (the clock begins on tax returns the later of the date the tax return is accepted or April 15)

@zenitram2  Please note that you have no choice about how or when your capital loss carryover is used. The carryover loss must first be used to offset any gains. There are no options. You cannot defer using the loss, or use only part of it. There is only one way to do the calculation. TurboTax does the calculation as required by the tax law.  

Another way to put it.....the $3,000 is the max loss you can take AFTER applying the carryover to the current gains.  Didn't you want to use all the carryover up?     Each year you get to first offset the carryover loss against any gains you have each year so that can use more of it up. Then after applying the loss to the current gains if there is still a loss, you can take a max loss of 3,000 per year.     And you can't skip a year.  

you are incorrect. if current year's net capital gains exceed the prior year's capital loss carryover, the entire carryover is applied to the current year's gains not just $3,000. $3,000 of net capital losses is just the limit of what you can deduct against other income. 

Im sorry but this does not address my problem. I am aware i can adjust the prior depreciation and i did that to fix this years return but the basic problem still remains.    Turbo Tax seems to be assuming that you have had the same amount of business use each year and is adjusting the depreciation to what that amount would total up to over the period of ownership. So no matter what i do it keeps readjusting it.    What it should be doing is taking the prior depreciation and just adding the purchase price/27.5. and then reducing by the business use %.   Why does it not do that?