App making an error, adding a made up "untitled" 1099-int that I need to enter the interest amount for. How do I remove the error?

[skwitz]

I looked at the income input wizard, in the 1099 section. There the app shows only the 1099-int forms that I entered. Upon fed tax review, it shows me a snapshot of the tax return schedule b form 1040. There I see the 2 1099-int lines I entered, plus another line labeled untitled with no interest amount. The system is asking for that amount. How can I remove that made up line?

[SteamTrain · Accepted solution]

(if you re on a phone...please exit and get to a large tablet, or full computer and log into your account thru a browser before doing this...you'll be able to navigate & see what's going on a lot easier.)

Read all of this before you do it..

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1) log in and get inside your 2018 tax file somewhere.

2) In the left-side menu and click on

<<<Tax Tools

<<<<<Tools

3).........then from the pop-up window, select "Delete a Form"

4) scroll thru the forms to find, then delete the Schedule B

5) scroll down to the bottom and hit the button to return to your tax file.

6) Now, re-enter any 1099-DIV and 1099-INT forms you had entered before. Deleting the Schedule B deleted them all, including the <untitled> one..

[bearbuck]

I am receiving this same error.  Can you please clarify your comment about the left-side menu and Tax Tools drop down.  On my screen I don't see any menus on the left side.  

[SteamTrain]

@bearbuck

  1)This only applies to people using the Online software....ahs nothing to do with Desktop users.

2)   Is referring to the Online browser-based software..not to an  "App".   and there is no left side menu on a phone until you click on the hamburger stack.  Which is why I say to get off any phone you might be in.

3)  Most of the menu selections appear only AFTER you are back inside your 2018 tax file....not on the home screen.

[tomsandy89]

Looks like a bug to me.  I am using the desktop version, not online.

[SteamTrain]

@tomsandy89

IF using the desktop software, you should be able to find any <untitled> forms in Forms Mode, and delete them there.

Deleting the Schedule B in Forms Mode will also work to get rig d of ALL 1099-INT,-DIV, or -OID forms....and then you go back to the interview to re-enter the real ones.

Other <untitled> form types are usually the result of starting in on a form, then then bailing out a the wrong place....thus starting a (say) 1099-R, but exiting at the point where you were supposed to enter the name of the payer on the actual software form..  That posts an <untitled> 1099-R in your file...but it is easily opened, and deleted in Forms Mode