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First time joint filing with wife. TurboTax AGI seems bugged. Need advice.

TCostantini96 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:02:55 GMT

Good afternoon tax experts! I have hopefully an easy question. I got married for the first time in 2024. She does not have a 2023 tax return. I accidentally hit "edit" on her AGI and had to select a reason so I chose "Did not File in 2023."

TurboTax now defaults the answer of her AGI of one dollar, with TurboTax saying "Because WIFE only filed a return last year to register for the stimulus check and set up info with the IRS, WIFE's AGI is $1." Before it just said "Leave blank if you are certain no 2023 tax return was filed." I confirmed on the IRS website no tax return was filed in 2023. I cannot edit this anymore.

I want to eFile. Does it matter that it says one dollar? Should I manually input it as zero? I verified no tax returns were done by her since 2019 on the IRS website (no income to report from that time period).

Thank you for your time and help on this. I apologize for the long read.

Re: First time joint filing with wife. TurboTax AGI seems bugged. Need advice.

DoninGA — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:06:36 GMT

If there was not a 2023 federal tax return filed then the AGI for 2023 should be 0

Re: First time joint filing with wife. TurboTax AGI seems bugged. Need advice.

TCostantini96 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:12:05 GMT

That's what I am thinking too. I'm not sure why TurboTax is defaulting to one dollar and then insisting that to put it as zero, I have to say it is zero on the transcript as there IS no transcript.

I'll input as zero and see if the eFile bounces and mark as correct if it works! Thank you very much.

Re: First time joint filing with wife. TurboTax AGI seems bugged. Need advice.

TCostantini96 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:13:12 GMT

It was accepted! Thank you for the help.