Just-Lisa-Now-
Level 15
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We agree with the missing income, but when I enter it into the 2017 program the tax computed is different than the CP2000.   The QDCGT worksheet comes up with a different figure than the IRS computed on the notice...is that common?

This missing Schwab statement also had some stock sales that we forgot, but they're not shown on the CP2000, the net profit is only $140 and they all had basis reported to IRS, but the only way I can get the income on the return to match the "as corrected by IRS" income on the CP2000 is to leave out those stock sales.

I think the IRS computers have gone bonkers.


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TaxMonkey
Level 8

IRS will routinely omit transactions below certain dollar thresholds.

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Just-Lisa-Now-
Level 15
Level 15
They had 3 different interest amounts of $4  $7 and $18 listed in the CP2000, I'd only caught the $4 and had rounded it to $5 since it was 4.89, and the $18 one.  So we missed the $7.

Weird!

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George4Tacks
Level 15
IRS historically truncates, rather than rounding. Their itty bitty computer brain has not learned how to round numbers.

Answers are easy. Questions are hard!
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itonewbie
Level 15
Maybe they are still using 486 for PCs.
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poolcleaner
Level 9
XT?
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itonewbie
Level 15
Antique.
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itonewbie
Level 15
But that was top of the line back then.
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Just-Lisa-Now-
Level 15
Level 15
The good old days, no point and grunt, spelling and punctuation counted!

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IRonMaN
Level 15

Maybe the IRS is using Drake to process their returns.


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Just-Lisa-Now-
Level 15
Level 15
LOL

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abctax55
Level 15
Any of the distributions capital gain distributions?  Maybe the IRS missed that and the tax *nets* to the difference?
Or - the IRS is just wrong in how they entered the covered transactions (missing that huge gain?)
Or - it was a full moon when they issued the notice?
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poolcleaner
Level 9
What about a Sch D loss carryforward?.  The IRS has a tendency to ignore those in their calculations.
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Just-Lisa-Now-
Level 15
Level 15
No capital gain distributions, no loss carry forwards.  Ordinary dividends with some of them qualified, but the CP2000 showed how much was qualified.

I went ahead and entered the missing things the CP2000 showed, and picked up $126 in foreign tax paid on the Schwab statement (IRS didn't have this on the CP2000 either), sent a detailed letter of explanation along with the QDCGT worksheet, client is sending a check for what we came up with.   Guess we'll see what happens!

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poolcleaner
Level 9
:+1::+1:
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sjrcpa
Level 15
That's what I would do @Just £isa Now!
The more I know, the more I don't know.
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