Community Property Federal Tax Withholding Subtraction Adjustment Bug

[user17674020775]

Running some scenarios through Turbotax 2025 premier as married filing separately and noticed a potential bug on the Tax Withholding Adjustments screen. Is anyone else having this issue and is there a workaround? This is preventing me from filing a correct federal return!

Details:

Page: Tax Withholding Adjustment
Section: Tax Withholding - Subtraction Adjustment

• Enter a negative Federal Amount to reduce the withholding for community property adjustment (tried positive number but got an error that the value should be < 0)
• Expected result: Federal withholding reduced by the negative amount entered
• Actual result: Opposite happens. Federal withholding is actually increased by the negative amount entered
• Example: before the adjustment, if my federal refund is $1000 and I enter -$1000 for Federal Withholding Amount Subtraction Adjustment, the federal refund increases to $2000 instead of decreasing to $0.
• I also tried manually updating the value to positive in the Federal Form 1040 but could not enter a positive value there either (same restriction that it must be < 0)
• Sidenote: This appears to be a bug in the federal Form 1040. When I enter a negative value for the State Amount, it calculates correctly in the CA Form 540 Tax Payment Worksheet

[user17690181793]

In the Desktop Mac version the field for the tax withholding tax adjustment isn't editable at all in either the EasySteps or Forms.  Seems like a related bug.

[desertlife]

I am having the same issue, is there any resolution from turbo tax as this seems to be a software issue. I need help, I wont be able to submit my taxes without this fix. Thanks!!

[DaveF1006]

Go to the forms mode in your program. In the 1040 section, select open form and then type 8958. Once here, you may enter all allocations directly on this form because the fields should be in brown. Taxes withheld are on line 11 on the form.

If your fields aren't editable in your 8958 in your return, delete the form 8958 and then add it back again.

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[desertlife]

@DaveF1006 I am using the online version, so I went to tools and deleted the form but the problem persists when i attempt to fill out the form again. I have cleared my taxes and started over and this still does not work.

This does not clear the bug. Please help. 

[ThomasM125]

This issue has been identified recently and is currently being worked on. If you are using the desktop version of the program, you should do your updates periodically by using the Online and Check for Updates menu options until you find the issue resolved. If you are working online with the program, you need to log into your program periodically and you will find the issue resolved in the near future.

[kayj44]

Has this bug been resolved yet on desktop?