pitstax
Level 3

If you go back to the beginning of this thread and follow it through, anyone who is truly interested in assisting their peers and who is experienced at all in this profession and actually is in the trenches preparing returns (if not, please don't volunteer...), could have seen what was being asked without knowing EXACTLY the particulars nor the software version nor anything else and could have provided an answer.  But they chose not to.  I have thirty plus years of experience and have prepared thousands of tax returns and when this topic first arose in preparing 2021 returns I wanted to see what others were doing and how they were handling this item because I had not seen it before.  I wasn't asking anyone to help me "fill in a form."  But yet the main crux of the responses were "let me show you how smart I am" instead of saying something like "doesn't apply to individual returns but looks like it applies to fiduciary returns and here's why I think that."  My conclusion isn't that most of these people are dimwits but it is that they really don't understand the point of a helpful message board - many are more interested in pontificating.

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