Traditional IRA deduction bug

Forum|Forum|7 months ago
February 25, 2026
4 replies
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I entered 8K for me and 8K for my wife, software said congratulations, you reduced your tax liability by xxx dollars but did not increase my refund. When I ran the check, it showed errors for missing entries on the IRA wks. When I manually entered the numbers, et voila, the refund increased by the correct amount. The software is not populating the form correctly.

TurboTax Home & Biz Windows

dmertz

Level 15

You are correct. TurboTax Home & Business currently has a bug in its IRA contribution calculator in step-by-step mode. The forum monitors have been made aware of this problem.

CLLI

Level 2

I got this issue too. When will TurboTax fix this bug?

user17731456707

Level 2

Similar/same problem: I entered my IRA contribution and it reduced the tax liability. When I entered for wife, for between Jan-Apr 2026, it did not. I changed the entry as if the contribution was made in 2025 and it reduced the tax liability correctly. Hopefully this gets fixed before I file.

DianeW777

Alumni - Intuit

This has been fixed and works well in TurboTax Desktop Home & Business. Be sure you have updated your software using the information below.

Manually Update TurboTax Desktop for Windows

For TurboTax Online do the following: Try clearing the cookies and cache. It handles many issues that seem nonsensical on a regular basis with online activity. Watch to be sure you are selecting 'all time' as example. Do not use selections like 'last hour' for those browsers that give you options.