Schedule 8812

[bigal125]

Turbo tax continues to ask to enter an amount received as an advance payment on schedule 8812. I do not have any dependent children and have not received any payments. Hence I can't complete and eFile my return. How do I correct this?

[DoninGA]

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@bigal125 wrote:

Turbo tax continues to ask to enter an amount received as an advance payment on schedule 8812. I do not have any dependent children and have not received any payments. Hence I can't complete and eFile my return. How do I correct this?

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Everyone is being asked this question since TurboTax does not know if the user was one who received these advances from the IRS in 2021.

Enter a 0 (zero) when asked to enter a number on the Schedule 8812. This will correct the issue and remove the Schedule 8812 from your tax return so that you can file the return.

[Passion4Diving]

I followed the process provided by Mike029 and it worked perfectly form me.  Once completing his process, I was able to successfully delete Form 8812

[knepd]

I don't have any dependents, yet TT wants me to complete form 8812. I can't complete my e-filing with this form incomplete. Bummer!

[DoninGA]

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@knepd wrote:

I don't have any dependents, yet TT wants me to complete form 8812. I can't complete my e-filing with this form incomplete. Bummer!

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Everyone is being asked this question since TurboTax does not know if the user was one who received these advances from the IRS in 2021.

Enter a 0 (zero) when asked to enter a number on the Schedule 8812. This will correct the issue and remove the Schedule 8812 from your tax return so that you can file the return.

[xmasbaby0]

@knepd Everyone has to answer whether they received advance child tax credit payments.   If you did not receive any of those payments between July and December you need to answer that you did not receive any payments.

There are so many scenarios with those payments---like divorced/never married parents who have issues over who received the payments, who claimed the children, etc. --- the software has no way of knowing if any of that involves you---so you have to answer the questions about it. 

Please follow these steps to indicate you did not receive any advanced payments:

1. Click on the "Search" on the top and type "Child tax credit"
2. Click on “Jump to Child Tax Credit”
3. Continue through the questions until the "Tell us about any advance Child Tax Credit payments" screen and select "No".
4. Continue through the questions.

[dr9214]

My tax form submission will not advance because it keeps asking me for Advance Payments (Form 8812) which I do not know what it is and if it has anything to do with children  our kids are 52 and 48, ie no child credit is asked for or wanted. I just want to complete my filing and have a drink! Thanks for your help in resolving this stupid issue.

[dr9214]

I did that>

[DoninGA]

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@dr9214 wrote:

My tax form submission will not advance because it keeps asking me for Advance Payments (Form 8812) which I do not know what it is and if it has anything to do with children  our kids are 52 and 48, ie no child credit is asked for or wanted. I just want to complete my filing and have a drink! Thanks for your help in resolving this stupid issue.

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Everyone is being asked this question since TurboTax does not know if the user was one who received these advances from the IRS in 2021.

Enter a 0 (zero) when asked to enter a number on the Schedule 8812. This will correct the issue and remove the Schedule 8812 from your tax return so that you can file the return.

[Pardowi1]

Entering 0 (zero) didn't help (it didn't for me), but I entered 0.0 and it did allowed me to continue. I hope this helps.

[Liz1950]

Entering zero on Schedule 8812 did not help most people. It did not fix my error. SO, on my disk version of TurboTax I went back the Forms and on my Information Worksheet, Part IV, Earned Income Credit Information checked the last box. In part, it reads ". . . or, if you are ineligible to claim the EIC for any other reason. 

I checked that box and Voila! 8812 simply disappeared from my return! No more error and no errant refundable credit that could have stimulated an audit!

I think TurboTax has a software question/answer glitch. AND, not everyone chooses to take EIC because they don't need it,.

[Liz1950]

So, I checked the last box on the Information Worksheet in the Forms mode of disk TT (Part IV, Earned Income Credit Information . In part, it reads ". . . or, if you are ineligible to claim the EIC for any other reason.) After running a final error check, Schedule 8812 did come back, and THEN entering zero as first directed cleared the original error.

[easyxpress]

In my case, both work for me (no review error):

1, Enter 0 at the "advance payment" field, OR

2. Delete the From 8812 altogether.

Since both work for me, what is the preferred way to handle this? Or, it doesn't really matter as long as it works?

- Joseph

[DoninGA]

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@easyxpress wrote:

In my case, both work for me (no review error):

1, Enter 0 at the "advance payment" field, OR

2. Delete the From 8812 altogether.

Since both work for me, what is the preferred way to handle this? Or, it doesn't really matter as long as it works?

- Joseph

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Does not matter.  Since both work.

[Kavitasingh30]

I didn’t receive any child tax credit