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Your avatar probably spooked someone in Homeland Security who alerted the IRS to place you on their No e-File List.I'm simply going to print and file the return by mail on Monday.
Your avatar probably spooked someone in Homeland Security who alerted the IRS to place you on their No e-File List.I'm simply going to print and file the return by mail on Monday.
I'm simply going to print and file the return by mail on Monday.
Bummer. If you have a refund coming it will take longer. Too bad you couldn't resolve this. Will this affect your choice of tax prep sw next year?The only advice I could get from the TT community was to re-do the entire return manually from scratch, not importing last year's return.
I do so today and submitted the return. Took me 2 hrs. Rejected a few hours later with the same error codes.
I'm simply going to print and file the return by mail on Monday.
Certified mail with return receipt requested alone costs more than a buck.Sounds like a great idea. A few sheets of paper for the printer might cost a nickel or so, and adding that to the cost of two stamps on the return and the total cost would be about $1. That's nothing - - cheaper than coffee at Starbux, and the aggravation is done.
The e-file is fun but it's not the real value in TT, as I see it.
Your avatar probably spooked someone in Homeland Security who alerted the IRS to place you on their No e-File List.
Sounds like a great idea. A few sheets of paper for the printer might cost a nickel or so, and adding that to the cost of two stamps on the return and the total cost would be about $1. That's nothing - - cheaper than coffee at Starbux, and the aggravation is done.
The e-file is fun but it's not the real value in TT, as I see it.
Bummer. If you have a refund coming it will take longer. Too bad you couldn't resolve this. Will this affect your choice of tax prep sw next year?
I would never just mail it, it will be certified so it will cost a few $.
Wow! I can't imagine. For over 40 years I just mailed mine in the envelope provided, and never worried about it or had any problems. After the www was invented, I could check online and see if they had received my paperwork and were starting on my refund yet.
Of course, I always filed my taxes early so anything had gone wrong, I had plenty of time to rectify it.
Everything I send to the IRS is certified. I am still in a strange loop with them on my 2009 tax return. For technical reasons I had to paper file that year. The return is still open. I have a notebook full of machine generated letters from them. They have lost my entire file twice (including all my responses to their inquiries). Without my certified receipts I have no proof that I ever responded to their queries.
Probably not. I've used TaxAct in the past, and it didn't cope very well with my foreign pension. The free version of TaxAct is also only on-line and doesn't import the previous year's data. I have a reasonably complicated return and like to play with it during the year to run various scenarios on withdrawal strategies, Roth conversions etc.
Not to be too picky, but TaxAct does have a free downloadable version. This is what I am using this year.
Wow! I can't imagine. For over 40 years I just mailed mine in the envelope provided, and never worried about it or had any problems. After the www was invented, I could check online and see if they had received my paperwork and were starting on my refund yet.
Of course, I always filed my taxes early so anything had gone wrong, I had plenty of time to rectify it.
Certified mail with return receipt requested alone costs more than a buck.
The Fed & state authorities have become too cheap to mail filers the forms based on their prior year's filing. A 1040 with accompanying Scheds. A, B, D, D-1., Forms 1116(with supporting attachments), 6251, and 8606 amounts to more than a few sheets of paper; and the design of the forms (e.g. logos) wastes plenty of ink.
The IRS has turned taxpayers into 'public servants' who perform data entry tasks which formerly provided gainful employment to government data entry clerks.
Thanks for the correction. Does the downloaded free version allow you to import your the data from the previous year? I ask because my son uses TaxAct on-line and said it would be nice to be able to import from last year, but not enough for him to pay.
As of Feb 7, 2012, the folowing website says that it is a TurboTax problem and they are "working on it"
E-file Rejection: Code 0034 for Form 8606 and Codes 0151 and 0156 for Summary Records. - TurboTax® Software Support
After filing your Federal return it may be rejected with the following codes:
Code 0034 - Form 8606 - For each record, significant data must be present following the Record ID Group.
Code 0156 - Summary Record - Number of Form Records must equal the number of form records computed by the IRS.
Code 0151 - Summary Record - Number of Logical Records in Tax Return must equal the total logical record count computed by the IRS.
We're currently investigating these codes in order to correct your return. Please click here to be notified when we have updates.
+1Even though I use tax preparation software, I have always filed by mail --certified, return receipt requested. I will continue to do so until they won't take paper returns anymore.
I'm sorry to hear that this happened, and I sure hope it doesn't happen to me this year!
That said, were I in your place I'd just print out the forms and mail them to the IRS. No big deal (at least to me).
The IRS receives those documents electronically from the institutions that produce them so there is no need or requirement for the taxpayer to mail them.Does'nt everyone have to eventually mail in their 1099's, W2's anyway? Or am I missing something.
The IRS receives those documents electronically from the institutions that produce them so there is no need or requirement for the taxpayer to mail them.
The TT test is a great way to see if you can do it yourself. Unless you have a particularly complex return, it should be just as easy (or hard).Really!?! Thanks! The older I get the less I seem to know. I've been sending them in all this time.
Planning to dump my $800 accountant (things are getting more and more simple for us reporting wise) and go to TT next year. Have already done a 'test' scenario on TT to see if he comes up with the same/similar numbers tomorrow.
I'd be interested in hearing what you eventually learn. If it turns out that there is a revision to the software that "fixes" this, it would reaffirm my strategy to delay filing as long as possible to wait for software vendors to patch their software.I filed a paper copy, but here is the latest info back from my query.
Does'nt everyone have to eventually mail in their 1099's, W2's anyway? Or am I missing something.
The IRS receives those documents electronically from the institutions that produce them so there is no need or requirement for the taxpayer to mail them.
I'd be interested in hearing what you eventually learn. If it turns out that there is a revision to the software that "fixes" this, it would reaffirm my strategy to delay filing as long as possible to wait for software vendors to patch their software.
I do my TaxAide returns on Taxwise but my personal return with TT. Last year, I continued to get software updates on TT throughout the summer. By September, they seemed to have died down.
I'd be interested in hearing what you eventually learn. If it turns out that there is a revision to the software that "fixes" this, it would reaffirm my strategy to delay filing as long as possible to wait for software vendors to patch their software.
I do my TaxAide returns on Taxwise but my personal return with TT. Last year, I continued to get software updates on TT throughout the summer. By September, they seemed to have died down.
A pity it wasn't in time to help you but still good to know. Thanks for the update.TT have announced that the problem is fixed. I've not attempted to e-file again as I sent off a paper return, but others with the same problem have confirmed it now works.
Planning to dump my $800 accountant (things are getting more and more simple for us reporting wise) and go to TT next year. Have already done a 'test' scenario on TT to see if he comes up with the same/similar numbers tomorrow.