Wednesday, January 30, 2008

TurboTax 2007 bug list

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a TurboTax 2007 bug list? A list you could check before you sent in your taxes? Intuit refuses to make that list public (or identify specific bug fixes in their updates), so here’s my contribution to what will have to be a vast distributed bug list instead.

TurboTax 2007 Federal and State Deluxe, Mac

Printing bug: Program crashes when trying to print line details for lines 35 and 41 from Schedule C. Program version: all updates as of 1/30/2008. Temporary fix: take screen shots of these line details, one screen view at a time, and print those screen shots.

Import bug: When Schedule C, line 35 details are imported from a 2006 return, the descriptions are incorrectly imported from the 2006 Sch C line 35 while the amounts are correctly imported from the 2006 Sch C line 41. The descriptions should also be imported from line 41, because your opening inventory for 2007 is supposed to match your closing inventory for 2006 (not your opening inventory for 2006). Program version: all updates as of 1/30/2008 and at least one earlier version. (Note: an update will not be able to correct this problem unless you re-import from the 2006 return.) Temporary fix: retype or copy all descriptions one at a time if the descriptions matter.

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