Form 2210AI during Error Check
If your Form 2210AI showed up unexpectedly, with a Federal Refund, but maybe 3-to-12 errors during your Review & Error Check....I can help you get rid of it.
But it depends on whether you are using the Desktop/download version of TurboTax, or the Online Browser-based software. The procedure is different for each one.
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First, a warning. .....after deleting it, you will need to check line 79 of the form 1040 (or line 51 of a form 1040A).
IF there is a tax penalty that shows up on that line, then you would need the form 2210AI, (or 2210) to reduce or eliminate that penalty....but I wouldn't bother unless the penalty is more than $50.
...(.it's painfully tedious to do a 2210AI if you've never done one before, and if you have, you'll avoid the hours of extra work needed for minor $$ penalties)
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Online Software:
1) Get into your tax file again, and start the Review & Error Check until the first form 2210AI error shows up.
2) Put a "1" in the first erro box, and continue to the next error
3) Go over to the left side of the screen and click on "Tax Tools"....then "Tools"
(For those of you with narrow screen devices, you might need to click on the upper-left hamburger stack to get the left-menu to show up)
4) from the pop-up menu, select "Delete a Form"
5) scroll down to the form 2210AI and delete it
6) scroll down to the bottom, click on "Continue With My Return" to get back to your tax return.
7) Run thru your Review and error check again to make sure it's gone....though, you might have different errors to deal with.
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Desktop Software;
1) Start thru your error check again.
2) Until the first Form 2210AI error shows up,
3) Now switch immediately to "Forms Mode".
4) Delete the form 2210AI then return to the Step-by-Step
5) it should be cleared of that form 2210AI now.
6) Run the error check again. You might have other errors that need to be dealt with, but the 2210AI errors shouldn't show up again.
Answer is not responsive. Question regards "line 26 will not allow entries", which is required for those of us who need Form 2210AI. Deleting the form is not the resolution. Intuit needs to correct the software bug ASAP.
@jmc
There was a massive early software error where 90% of all people encountering this problem did not need their form 2210, or 2210AI at all...since the form itself wasn't supposed to be there....and this answer fixed 90% of all problems for the first two months of 2018.
....it's (supposedly) fixed now...BUT.
.........IF you continue to have a problem with that, you Call TTX and talk to them on the phone to guide you thru that issue:
>https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1899263
Form 2210AI during Error Check
If your Form 2210AI showed up unexpectedly, with a Federal Refund, but maybe 3-to-12 errors during your Review & Error Check....I can help you get rid of it.
But it depends on whether you are using the Desktop/download version of TurboTax, or the Online Browser-based software. The procedure is different for each one.
___________________________
First, a warning. .....after deleting it, you will need to check line 79 of the form 1040 (or line 51 of a form 1040A).
IF there is a tax penalty that shows up on that line, then you would need the form 2210AI, (or 2210) to reduce or eliminate that penalty....but I wouldn't bother unless the penalty is more than $50.
...(.it's painfully tedious to do a 2210AI if you've never done one before, and if you have, you'll avoid the hours of extra work needed for minor $$ penalties)
________________________________
Online Software:
1) Get into your tax file again, and start the Review & Error Check until the first form 2210AI error shows up.
2) Put a "1" in the first erro box, and continue to the next error
3) Go over to the left side of the screen and click on "Tax Tools"....then "Tools"
(For those of you with narrow screen devices, you might need to click on the upper-left hamburger stack to get the left-menu to show up)
4) from the pop-up menu, select "Delete a Form"
5) scroll down to the form 2210AI and delete it
6) scroll down to the bottom, click on "Continue With My Return" to get back to your tax return.
7) Run thru your Review and error check again to make sure it's gone....though, you might have different errors to deal with.
_______________________________
Desktop Software;
1) Start thru your error check again.
2) Until the first Form 2210AI error shows up,
3) Now switch immediately to "Forms Mode".
4) Delete the form 2210AI then return to the Step-by-Step
5) it should be cleared of that form 2210AI now.
6) Run the error check again. You might have other errors that need to be dealt with, but the 2210AI errors shouldn't show up again.
Thanks, I was able to enter the numbers I needed in the "step-by-step" mode. There is still a problem with the TT "forms mode" -- you cannot make entries on line 26 of form 2210 AI in forms mode. Pretty darned frustrating but glad there was another way. And yes, 2210AI is extremely painful -- took me nearly all day and saved a couple of hundred bucks in penalties but not sure it was worth it.
Yeah....in the error check, if you are going to use it, you need to make the entry in the upper-left corner above the page that is displayed....then step to the next one. That works for best for simple one-entry errors. If you make them in the form itself that shows on the error screen, they do take, but it just doesn't look like it (That's a whole 'nother story)...and for the 2210AI, one really needs step out of there and to go thru the full Underpayment penalty interview to make the entries easier.