Traditional IRA deduction bug

[user17720596953]

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. 

[dmertz]

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]

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

[user17731456707]

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]

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.

• How to clear your cache

Once this is complete open your return and try again.

Please update here if you need additional assistance.

@user17731456707