topic Re: Failure to enter value of Traditional IRA on Dec. 31, 2021 was not detected, resulting in miscalculation of tax owed. in Get your taxes done using TurboTax

Failure to enter value of Traditional IRA on Dec. 31, 2021 was not detected, resulting in miscalculation of tax owed.

jdickins11 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:25:08 GMT

My failure to enter the value of my traditional IRA on December 31, 2021 was not detected by the TT Federal Review. As a result, there was no entry on form 8606 Line 6 and a gross miscalculation of the taxable amount of my distributions.

I didn't see any reason why a blank on 8606 Line 6 would ever be valid. It looks like a TT bug to me. Is this the case?

Re: Failure to enter value of Traditional IRA on Dec. 31, 2021 was not detected, resulting in miscalculation of tax owed.

fanfare — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:27:37 GMT

If you closed out your IRA, Line 6 would be zero, so that is an allowed value.

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Re: Failure to enter value of Traditional IRA on Dec. 31, 2021 was not detected, resulting in miscalculation of tax owed.

dmertz — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:34:25 GMT

This concern has been made to those at TurboTax Product Quality many times in the past and they've elected to ignore it. They consider it to be user error when a failure to enter the year-end value results in a miscalculation on Form 8606.

Re: Failure to enter value of Traditional IRA on Dec. 31, 2021 was not detected, resulting in miscalculation of tax owed.

jdickins11 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 03:19:26 GMT

Thanks for the timely and informative answers. While I found my error with my usual manual checks, I was miffed that TT didn't tell me first. I expect that valid missing values would be very rare in this case.