"EBG" <maberger[at]comcast.net> wrote in news:1085dpeg4nlfb23

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TurboTax techo stuff spoken at alt.comp.software.financial.quicken

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"EBG" <maberger[at]comcast.net> wrote:

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You will need to ask TurboTax this question. It is a
software ? not a tax ?

Missy Doyle

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The minus signs cannot be causing the errors, because that's
what TurboTax normally uses. It does not use parentheses.
What does the error message say?

You do not normally enter the amount of a loss into
TurboTax. You enter the sales price and basis, and TurboTax
calculates the loss (or gain). TurboTax displays losses with
a minus sign, not parentheses. Negative numbers have to be
entered with a minus sign. TurboTax will not allow you to
enter parentheses where a number is required.

What is your "schedule D generator"? Is that some
third-party software that is supposed to somehow feed
Schedule D entries to TurboTax? If you think that this
"generator" is passing bad data to TurboTax, you should
contact the company that makes the software. Do they
guarantee compatibility with TurboTax? Or is the generator
something you wrote yourself? But, as I said, the minus sign
is the correct format, so that is not the problem. You do
not want parentheses.

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"EBG" <maberger[at]comcast.net> wrote:

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TurboTax normally calculates the gains and losses
automatically. Why are you exporting these fields at all?

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Barry Margolin, barmar[at]alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA

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I have 42 errors in my schedule D in turbo tax and I think
it may be because my losses are showing as a -number....

ie.... - 125.00

rather than (125.00)

My schedule D generator exported the losses using a minus
sign.......will a change to parenthesis fix the problem?

Thanks,
Mr. Going nuts

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