2021 Child Tax Credits

[Frustrated Student]

I can't get the child tax credit and Schedule 8812 to generate on a 2021 return. I have completed the due diligence checklist, they have SSNs, they did not receive advanced child tax credit payments. How can I force ProConnect to generate Schedule 8812? What is preventing this? They show as qualified for child tax credit.

[George4Tacks]

This should be automatic. Review your input for Dependents and see if all the choices are 1 for Type, EIC, CTC

[BobKamman]

And that their date of birth is correctly entered.

[IRonMaN]

Frustrated Student? It only gets more frustrating the longer you stay in this profession. Unless this is your final semester, you still have time to find a profession that doesn't get frustrating. Being a mortician isn't a bad profession. At least you get to bury your mistakes 😬

[TaxGuyBill]

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@IRonMaN wrote:

Being a mortician isn't a bad profession. At least you get to bury your mistakes 😬

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[Frustrated Student]

All of the inputs are 1.

The 1040 shows the checkbox that indicates they are eligible for the child tax credit.

I followed the instructions and put a -1 in for the recovery rebate screen, indicating no advanced credit was received and it still won't generate the 8812. I also tried leaving the recovery credit input blank and still it won't work.

The parents and dependents have SSNs and I marked the ID as verified for the parents.

Something in Proconnect's undocumented, crappy code is preventing the credit, but nothing is showing up in the diagnostics.

Any ideas?

[Just-Lisa-Now-]

Does CTC get phased out at higher income? I cant remember and Im too lazy to look.

[Frustrated Student]

Thanks to those who replied (except maybe the mortician dude - do you really think it is better to deal with dead bodies than do taxes?).

I gave up on trying to debug what the problem was and just started over. Second time around it worked perfectly. I still don't know exactly which input field caused the problem and I wasted hours of my life on it, so that's not much fun, but I got there in the end.