1041 Estate Income tax return

[Stevehofwa]

I'm the executor and the beneficiary, so I'd rather pay the minimal tax in the estate rather the the higher rates in my own return. Either way I pay, but its much less if paid in the estate.

[Stevehofwa]

another mistake I made was to use the wrong year's forms(not year of death but fiscal year end). They took the original anyway so I think I won't change that with the amendment.

[Stevehofwa]

Actually easy to just retype on 2018 forms, tax goes up by $7.  They took it before, better to submit 2018 forms or 2019?

[Stevehofwa]

Then took a long time to process the initial return, plus there was a bug in the software which wrongly entered the fiduciary name.  So it took a while for the IRS to figure it out, plus they decided the tax year was the calendar year of return, not what what typed in the header.

[s k]

I can't get the $600 exemption to automatically fill in, then if I put it in manually it doesn't calculate.