Under the screen, "Tell us about your clergy housing", I entered a fair market value of a parsonage on both lines. When I returned to that screen, both lines were blank.

[Opus 17]

There is a bug affecting some clergy where the choice to pay SE tax on "both" housing and wages does not "Stick" and the program reverts to one of the other choices, resulting in incorrect (too low) SE tax being calculated.  This may be related, although I haven't seen this exact symptom reported before.

Since turbotax online hides most forms until after you pay, you can either pay now (but don't transmit your return) then go back and print a draft and check your schedule SE, or you can go to My Account / Tools/ Tax Summary / Preview my 1040, and see if the SE tax amount on line 57 is consistent with the correct tax being charged on your wages plus housing.

Some customers have reported fixing the problem by deleting the W-2 and entering it again.  Also, make sure you enter the housing allowance on the screen that asks for housing allowance and housing expenses (in the W-2 interview after checking the box for "special circumstances.")  Even if the housing allowance is in box 14 of the W-2, it needs to be entered again on the later screen.

The only other solution for now is to change to using turbotax installed on your own computer from a CD or download, since the problem seems to only happen in Turbotax online.  You can transfer your partially completed tax file from your online account to your computer so you don't have to start over from scratch.

[dgturner]

I paid for Turbotax Home and Business Online, then checked the 1040 preview and found that the clergy housing was no reflected in the SE tax.  Then I deleted the W-2 and re-entered the information.  That seemed to fix the problem because the information was still there when I returned to the clergy housing screen and the amount of SE tax was affected (alas, more).  Thank you.

[Opus 17]

Good to know.