Because of my complicated situation, a specific tax rule is up to an ambiguous interpretation. Therefore, instead of making an interpretation myself, i was hoping to ask IRS directly on the most appropriate interpretation.    does IRS offer an online (or phone) service that allows me to ask such a question?    Thx!   ... View more

I did a post-tax IRA 2018 contribution on Jan. 10 2019, but my bank did not provide a 1099-R yet!    Should I self-declare the contribution in my 2018 tax return? (even though it has no tax implication, since it was post-tax).    please advise. Thx.   ... View more

Am I  allowed to get the 2018 Child tax Credit for my two children although they both lived  most of 2018 (and went to school) in Europe with my wife (who is their mother), because my wife was there for her work (in a non-USA institution)?     Note that I provided more than 50% of their cost of living and lived in USA all 2018 (except for vacation time, and business travels), and that they visited me for about 2 months in 2018.     Note lso that my wife and I file jointly our tax return, and claim the foreign-earned income credit for her European income.    Please advise. Thx in advance!   ... View more

Hi.  I'd like to know how I can manually edit a form on Turbotax desktop?  I know exactly what to enter, I just want to know how to enter it.      More specifically, the CA (540NR) form of my 2017 state return has a mistake in Part II.  (I believe this is due to Turbo Tax Software bug that did not update an earlier incorrect typing after I corrected in the my Federal form, but this is beyond the point here).  So, I'd like to simply delete the left-over, which nicely fix the error.    Please advise.  Thx in advance!      ... View more