topic incorrect calculation for 2019. need correction in After you file

incorrect calculation for 2019. need correction

cvsuri — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 10:54:59 GMT

My income for 2018 was $78,000 and turbotax calculated $775 in taxes. In 2019 income was $82,000 and turbotax calculated $11,000 in taxes. In 2020 income was $86,000 and turbotax calculated a refund of $177.

I think turbotax made a mistake for 2019. How do I get someone to review it and redo it?

Re: incorrect calculation for 2019. need correction

Critter-3 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:35:14 GMT

Print the returns and review them side by side ... where are the differences ? Did you make a data input error ? When you figure out what was incorrect you can amend it ...

See this TurboTax support FAQ for how to amend a tax return originally completed and filed using TurboTax - https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/amending/help/how-to-amend-change-or-correct-a-return-you-already-...

Re: incorrect calculation for 2019. need correction

cvsuri — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:38:54 GMT

That's what I cannot understand. The tax liability calculated by turbotax is out of whack with 2018 and 2020 returns

Re: incorrect calculation for 2019. need correction

DoninGA — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:46:37 GMT

@cvsuri wrote:

That's what I cannot understand. The tax liability calculated by turbotax is out of whack with 2018 and 2020 returns

Look at your Taxable Income, Total Taxes and Total Tax payments on the 2018, 2019 and 2020 tax returns. Where do you see a large difference on the 2019 tax return?

Re: incorrect calculation for 2019. need correction

Critter-3 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:50:20 GMT

Again "out of whack" is hard to diagnose in a public forum ... the program does math calculations very well 99.9% of the time ... the variable would be the user making an input error 99.9% of the time or just not understanding the situation.

So put the returns side by side ... what increased the taxes? Were you self employed that year ? Did you have to pay back some or all of the Obamacare credit ? Was it a simply data entry error on the W-2 for the income or withholding ? And why didn't you question this 2 years ago?

Re: incorrect calculation for 2019. need correction

cvsuri — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:54:23 GMT

2018 - AGI 77190, Taxable income 59,190, Tax 819

2019 - AGI 85526, Taxable income 65,505, Tax 11,008

2020 - AGI 81738, Taxable income 63,088, Tax 423

Can't understand why the big jump in 2019, everything else being the same.

Re: incorrect calculation for 2019. need correction

cvsuri — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:59:11 GMT

The reason I didn't question this 2 years ago was I was suffering from severe depression for a number of years and my MD had put me on new meds a year before. And I didn't realize that I was having strange side effects from the drugs. I went away to my home country for a year since then, stopped my meds until things cleared up and returned recently. I'm a lot more with it now and have realized the strange discrepancy in the tax paid in 2019.

Re: incorrect calculation for 2019. need correction

Critter-3 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 13:06:47 GMT

Still not enough ... is the 2019 tax on one line only ? Or is it a combination of multiple lines ? Was this a year when you did not claim dependents ? Were there credits (or lack of them) involved ? Actually the 2019 year is the only one making sense right now.

I highly suggest you talk to someone in person locally as figuring this out on a forum is not the most effective method.

Don't know if TT support will be any help but you can try them ... contact details can be found here