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Advance Payment

BastaPa — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:33:01 GMT

I am preparing IRS Returns for my partner and for myself.

Going through the Smart Check for my partner has highlighted an error: Schedule 8812 : Advance Payments received must be entered.

I have no idea what this means. I looked up "Advance Payment" in the Search, did not get any guidance.

What do I need to do?

Thank you. Patrick.

Re: Advance Payment

MarilynG1 — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 22:24:19 GMT

The Advance Payments reported on Form 8812 are for those with children who received Advance Payments of their Child Tax Credit during 2021.

You can delete Form 8812 from your return.

You may want to then close TurboTax, and clear your Cache and Cookies before re-opening the program.

Re: Advance Payment

BastaPa — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 22:35:52 GMT

Marilyn:

Thank you for your guidance. No idea how a "child" tax form ended up in our return...

You are mentioning cleaning up the Cache - I can do this. But I have a question before I do this: I was going through the Federal Review and Smart Check this morning, which showed an error on a form - did I want to delete it?

I deleted it, and my tax liability went up by $400!!!

Is there a way to see "what form I deleted" so that I know that indeed, I should have deleted it? I know that it had WKS in the error message, but I can't remember the form.

Thank you. Patrick.

Re: Advance Payment

DaveF1006 — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 22:42:00 GMT

No, there is no way to determine which form you deleted once it's deleted.