I'm with you. They've always been good but this is the kind of business that they just can't make this kind of mistake - and this is key: - NOT FIX IT IN THE AT LEAST 3 WEEKS people have been posting about it here and bringing it to their attention! THAT's the unacceptable part!
As to the "solution" the ONLY real solution is that TT GET THIS FIXED *NOW*!
I was in a hurry to file for personal reasons.
So therefore I risked using the "solution" that a couple people here have endorsed which is to create a new income stream of 100k: call it anything you want like "Temporary Fix For Turbo Tax BUG".
Then when it gives you the warning re error on Line 18, go back there and fill in the box with 75% of your income as it says.
Then go back and DELETE the new income.
For me that SEEMS to have solved it, and since the income is now deleted as I recall, I got a message saying "You are not eligible for Deferral".
Go back and read this thread as to how to exactly do it.
When I checked my finished taxes right before paying, I saw that the Form for Referral was not in my Return so I assume (?) all is well? But since it was jerry-rigged or mickey moused, Who Knows?
Do I like that I had to do this? NO! It cost me 20 hours of my time, all told: doing the taxes,trying to figure out the problem, using methods that did not solve it, trying a different method, coming back and forth to the forum... and now am WORRIED that it may cause an audit or more inspection of my Return....
But as I said, I needed to get my taxes filed quickly for personal reasons so I went along with this "mickey mouse" "fix".
If I had not been in a hurry I'd have gone to another Tax Service for sure, and next year I am NOT using Turbo Tax.
