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TurboTax guarantees the accuracy of their calculations. They
will reimburse any penalties and interest that have to be
paid because of a calculation error in the software. There
is no need to sue. See the following link for details.

https://support1.turbotax.com/cgi-bi...hp?p_faqid=170

Bob Sandler

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<davoti[at]gmail.com> wrote:

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Your obligation is to pay the taxes -- protesting because TT
might have a bug is not something the CA tax authorities
will likely consider.

If it turns out that TT was, in fact, wrong, then *you*
still owe the taxes, but may have a valid cause of action
for a civil suit against Intuit to collect your damages.
It's highly likely, though, that the EULA (End User License
Agreement) you hapily clicked "Yes" to during the install of
TT specifically waived your rights to sue. I wouldn't know
-- I've never read it.

In either case, it's you who owe the taxes. Maybe you can
collect from Intuit, but it's likely you can't.

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davoti[at]gmail.com wrote:

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Usually all Turbo tax does is make a pretty return. If you
do not know how to do taxes in the first place the tax
program is only going to do what you tell it to do. You may
or may not have checked a box somewhere and it did just what
you told it to do. What you need to do if you are not going
to hire a professional to do your taxes is put the numbers
in and see what the tax is and then take the numbers out and
see what it says. A Tax professional usually saves you more
money than their fees.

Missy Doyle

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<davoti[at]gmail.com> wrote:

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Usually an error on a TT return means input error.

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You should either pay the state what they're asking for or
take your returns to a human being to examine them.
Software is useless if you don't know what the numbers on
the return should be.

--
Phil Marti
Clarksburg, MD

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I would appreciate information on this.

I used TurboTax to file both federal and CA state income tax
last year, II just received a letter of "notice of proposed
assessment" from CA tax franchise board, saying that it has
made an adjustment to my CA itemized deductions for the
reason:

Base of the filesing status and deferal adjusted gross
income, it has reduced my itemized CA deductions. Also
saying It has allowed the standard deductions because the
allowable itemized deductions are less than the she standard
deductions

I need to pay more tax plus interest as indicated.

My questions:

1) I just entered the turbotax with all the number and it
came out with the tax, does it mean turbotax has errors?

2) Should I protest and explain my filing process? Or what
should I do?

Thanks
Dan

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