Is anyone else having a random Explanation statement generated in 2025 files today?

[montgomery]

Today 4/23/26, every file I open in my 2025 Proseries system has inexplicably generated an Explanation statement that is titled "Amortization of Domestic Research and Experimental costs."  This is happening in both unfiled and filed returns.  Anyone else have this issue?

[IRonMaN]

Yup, someone reported it yesterday that it started happening after they did an update.

[Skylane]

No idea where it's coming from (or what it means) but yes... showing up on filed and unfiled returns.... I think the moderators all left for summer vacation....  no clue

[sjrcpa]

https://accountants.intuit.com/community/proseries-tax-discussions/discussion/update-glitch/00/35835...

[anniebear]

Yeah, but worse, it won’t let me delete it! I keep trying remove the form, but it doesn’t! Anyone know how to do it?

[ProfHal]

Glad to see I'm not the only one!  Inexplicable!

[sjrcpa]

per the link I posted "you can override the wording to leave it blank"

[RVAFA]

Well, glad to know it's not because I entered something weird to generate this.

Thanks for posting this issue.

[BobKamman]

They did this the same day they started issuing renewal notices for next year's program.  Sign up now and you'll get the password for removing the glitch.  

[DSK-78Kal-48]

This just showed up on 4-23-26 in a tax return that is to be filed. How do I get rid of it?

[IRonMaN]

For now, you can't

[anniebear]

Just spoke to Intuit. Still working on it.

would like to know if I efile with the weird statement since I can’t dump it, do you think the IRS will know it’s erroneous? Intuit says yes, no problem. Would like some opinions please.

thanks.

[IRonMaN]

I haven't updated since this issue popped up, but if the issue hasn't created any bogus numbers to float around in the returns it shouldn't hurt anything e-filing the return.

[BobKamman]

Just as the major religions of the world cannot agree on the true path to God, there are different beliefs about how to provoke an audit by IRS.  Take your pick. 

1) We know enough about the IRS audit selection process and this is not something that would cause them to look at a return. 

2) We doubt that even IRS knows today how it will go about selecting returns for audit next year, so it cannot be known whether this makes any difference.  

[AzTaxGuy3]

YES, my AI says there is No Fix Yet.  Really, really frustrating, I think it is harmless but I still need to document it in my workpapers just in case it creates an issue a year or two down the road.

[cgroubertcpa]

Proseries has really crapped the bed this year.  

[Chessie]

ProSeries downloaded this afternoon a fix to the glitch for Explanation Statement "Amortization of Domestic R&E costs".    When I had called ProSeries, they said were "investigating" the issue and it only affected returns with Depreciable Assets - that matched my experience with my client returns that were "glitching". 

I checked around noon today for an update but there was none.  However, I just now checked again before e-filing another return and saw a new update.  It FIXED the glitch!  Thank you to the team who fixed the issue!  

[jonesey12]

Same here but I'm using turbotax premier online. Customer service tried to help but couldn't. I have no r&e costs yet it's popping up at the end of my return. I delete it and it's right back. I even deleted schedule c with all expenses and it's still there. Please help!

[sjrcpa]

@jonesey12 
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[taxlady22]

I thought I was going crazy, couldn't figure out where it came from or how to delete it.