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March 19, 2022
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Deleting incorrect Information

  • March 19, 2022
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Form 8801,Prior year Alternate minimum tax credits

 

Turbotax has generated prior year AMT credits that I do not have.  It caused a tax audit for my 2019 return.  Audit Defense told me that the IRS was correct and I owed the tax as well as penalty and interest.  I have not heard from the IRS but Turbotax also generated credits that reduced my taxes for 2020.  I expect an audit for that year also.   

How do I turn off these incorrect credits for my 2021 taxes?

I just want to delete the incorrect information from 2020 the carryover credits.  How do I do that?  

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Critter-3
Level 15
March 19, 2022

Duplicate post. 

ColdguyAuthor
Level 2
March 19, 2022

Sorry about the duplicate post.  

 

I figured it out myself.  I went to the 8801 and expanded the last year credit line (2021) and deleted the previous  amount.  Everything was recalculated and took care of the issue.  I tried to put zero directly into the 8801 form and it did not work.  I did not know that you could expand the information history which is apparently what I did.  I was working directly in the forms rather than the easy step.  

ColdguyAuthor
Level 2
March 19, 2022

I am not happy about Turbotax generating fake credits which I had no idea they were wrong.  Somehow I will have to deal with the 2020 return.  

 

I will have to have a discussion with Turbotax about compensation relative to their program generating false refunds that cause me to deal with the IRS.  

 

I was happy that I had the Audit Defense even though there was nothing they could do.