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- Got Cheered for Re: SO far....you can't. But you are not charged for them un.... July 14, 2020 2:30 PM
- Posted Re: Dependent question on Deductions & credits. April 29, 2020 7:33 PM
- Posted Re: SO far....you can't. But you are not charged for them un... on Get your taxes done using TurboTax. April 17, 2020 12:49 PM
- Posted Re: If somebody claimed me as a dependent on their 2018 taxes, can I still file my taxes and get my stimulus check ? on Get your taxes done using TurboTax. April 17, 2020 2:18 AM
- Posted Re: SO far....you can't. But you are not charged for them un... on Get your taxes done using TurboTax. April 16, 2020 10:28 PM
- Posted Re: What if only one of the spouses has filed their separate... on After you file. April 4, 2020 4:13 PM
- Posted Re: Is the CARES Act advance credit payment a nonrefundable credit? on Deductions & credits. March 29, 2020 1:50 PM
- Posted Is the CARES Act advance credit payment a nonrefundable credit? on Deductions & credits. March 29, 2020 7:26 AM
- Posted Is the CARES Act advance credit payment a nonrefundable credit? on Deductions & credits. March 29, 2020 1:11 AM
- Posted Re: Report foreign pension? (Sweden social security equivalent seems exempt as I read the treaty) on Deductions & credits. March 27, 2020 8:39 PM
- Posted Re: Report foreign pension? (Sweden social security equivalent seems exempt as I read the treaty) on Deductions & credits. March 25, 2020 9:41 PM
- Got Cheered for NY e-File Mandate. October 23, 2019 7:41 PM
- Posted Re: Today on March 17, 2019, I see that extra page with adjus... on State tax filing. October 10, 2019 9:35 AM
- Posted Re: I'm not an expert, but if you add union dues to the fed r... on Deductions & credits. October 9, 2019 7:29 PM
- Posted Re: NY e-File Mandate on State tax filing. July 8, 2019 9:45 AM
- Posted NY e-File Mandate on State tax filing. July 7, 2019 9:46 PM
- Posted Re: I filed an ameded return for 2018. I have not received the refund yet. Can you help please? on After you file. July 7, 2019 9:34 PM
- Posted Re: No you don’t file the other separate return. Just amend... on After you file. July 7, 2019 9:23 PM
- Posted Re: No you don’t file the other separate return. Just amend... on After you file. July 6, 2019 11:22 PM
- Posted Re: No you don’t file the other separate return. Just amend... on After you file. July 6, 2019 11:11 PM
April 29, 2020
7:33 PM
Probably. I did just as much and took the $2,000 child tax credit that I lost from the spouse's refund. IRS doesn't usually apply the dependent rules about who actually provided the support when there are no conflicting claims to the dependent (i.e. only one person claims the child). In the worst case, you could render the IRS adjustment disallowing it to be moot by amending the separate returns into a joint return, which probably would gain you both more money than just the dependent credit.
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April 17, 2020
12:49 PM
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I looked into this a little bit further, and actually you don't have to do so much just to uninstall the unneeded states; the state modules have their own standalone Windows installers! (which includes built-in support for the uninstall operation) What happened to me is that I had briefly selected NM instead of NY somewhere on the return by accident. Once TurboTax saw that, it flagged the NM state module in the Windows registry to be later downloaded and installed. The flag apparently doesn't get cleared even if you later remove the reference to the state before the install actually happens. So I never had any need for NM and really didn't want to see it hanging around on my computer forever ... It turns out, at least as of TurboTax 2019 desktop, that the installers for the state modules are downloaded and stored under the hidden directory tree at C:\ProgramData\Intuit\Common\Update Service\v4\Data . They have names like, for example, wctiper.msi for CT Personal Income tax or wnmiper.msi for NM Personal Income Tax. Once you find the installer for the state module that you want to delete, you can easily invoke the uninstall operation using "Run Command" or in "Command Prompt" like this: MsiExec /x "\path\to\w??iper.msi" . That will prompt you to confirm that you want to uninstall the state module, then in a second it'll be gone. You can also then delete the installer itself and the subdirectory it's in if you want as well (may not be necessary though). Now, there also is the issue that TurboTax will re-download and re-install the removed state if it remains flagged by TurboTax in the Windows registry. TurboTax seems to maintain a separate set of these flag on a per tax year basis, which means that the flagging shouldn't be carrying over to subsequent years if you no longer needed them on the new return. However, you can check and delete them if necessary out of the registry with REGEDIT.EXE. For TurboTax 2019, here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Intuit\TY19\PREFILLPERSTATES I assume that for TurboTax 2020 those state flags will be in TY20 directory path instead. Under each key you'll find a separate name-value pair for each state, just delete the one relating to the state that you don't want re-installed. As long as there is no reference to that state in your return, the flag won't be re-written into the registry and the state module will stay uninstalled!
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April 17, 2020
2:18 AM
I have the same question ... really not sure if they will reconsider when 2019 return is filed. Or maybe it'll have to wait for 2020 return next year to get resolved.
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April 16, 2020
10:28 PM
Actually, I think this more of an oversight on Intuit's part than their intentions... The state modules are registered as components of the TurboTax desktop application in the Windows Registry. Uninstalling the application does not clean up these registry entries, and as long as a reference to a state's module component remains there, the common Intuit installer is going to download and re-install it. You may be able to control that a little by disabling the automatic updates in the menu bar. To actually get rid of the references to the unwanted state installation (WARNING: I do not have any other Intuit products installed), what I did is uninstall TurboTax, delete the files in the C:\Program Files (x86)\TurboTax and C:\Program Files (x86)\Common\Intuit directories, and then run REGEDIT.EXE and search for "TurboTax" and "Intuit" and delete as many entries as I could, especially the state module registrations. Then when I re-installed, only the state modules actually applicable to my return got installed. Maybe a Registry Cleaner utility could do this too. So it can be done... just clean up your registry after uninstalling.
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April 4, 2020
4:13 PM
It was answered in that I did it and saw what happened. To recap - The amended return does not void the originally filed return or serve as a subsequent joint return filing. What it does is cause an IRS adjustment to the original return. For the non-filing spouse, the original separate return becomes the originally filed separate return for both spouses! That may not be what you want, particularly if you have to later produce a tax return transcript to verify your income; for the non-filing spouse, the tax transcript will show the filing spouse's income only. While an account transcript will cryptically show adjustments in tax and filing status, the details of where those adjustments came from (the Form 1040-x) are not maintained by IRS.
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March 29, 2020
1:50 PM
Because the stimulus checks are coming soon, and it you file your 2019 taxes now you may still have a chance to make certain elections that will affect the check amount. Lacking information from the IRS, as our government has become prone to do as of late, people make their own best guesses, which may be irrational or even paranoid. For example, another branch of this question relates to the claiming of dependents, is it tax year 2019 or tax year 2020 for which a person claimed as a dependent on another person's return is rendered ineligible for the credit? Reading the language of the law, it would appear to be tax year 2020, although tax years 2018 or 2019 will be used for determining if an advance payment will be made. How permanent the advance payment will be, and whether the credit will be a refundable or nonrefundable credit if claimed later on the 2020 tax return, is a fundamental consideration in the tax elections to be made now.
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March 29, 2020
7:26 AM
This new law is now two days old, and so far everyone has been talking about the economic stimulus check provision as if it is a refundable tax credit like the earned income credit. But reading the language of relevant section of the act, I'm not so sure about that, and it seems like this will be a nonrefundable credit on the 2020 tax return, meaning people who get the check but wind up paying little or no tax for 2020 may have to pay it back in 2021? See below: "SEC. 6428. 2020 RECOVERY REBATES FOR INDIVIDUALS . “(a) In General .—In the case of an eligible individual, there shall be allowed as a credit against the tax imposed by subtitle A for the first taxable year beginning in 2020 an amount equal to the sum of— ..." Maybe there's a loophole that I'm missing which says that an overpaid advance credit won't have to be paid back, or some other technicality that makes it actually a refundable credit. How are others reading this provision?
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March 29, 2020
1:11 AM
This new law is now two days old, and so far everyone has been talking about the economic stimulus check provision as if it is a refundable tax credit like the earned income credit. But reading the language of relevant section of the act, I'm not sure and it seems like this will be a nonrefundable credit on the 2020 tax return, meaning people who get the check but wind up paying little or no tax for 2020 may have to pay it back in 2021? See below: "SEC. 6428. 2020 RECOVERY REBATES FOR INDIVIDUALS . “(a) In General .—In the case of an eligible individual, there shall be allowed as a credit against the tax imposed by subtitle A for the first taxable year beginning in 2020 an amount equal to the sum of— ..." Maybe there's a loophole that I'm missing which says that an overpaid advance credit won't have to be paid back, or some other technicality that makes it actually a refundable credit. How are others reading this provision?
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March 27, 2020
8:39 PM
Read the tax treaty with the country in question. These issues may be addressed there.
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March 25, 2020
9:41 PM
TIN is not required for Form 4852, but you will have to mail in the return and can't e-file. It does work, however, and using Form 4852 as a substitute Form 1099-R is the only correct way to report this type of income as I understand it.
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