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Updates and Workarounds for the 1999 Federal Windows and Windows Deluxe Editions

NOTE: The update for the 1999 tax year Windows and Windows Deluxe editions of TaxCut fixes the calculation errors listed below and includes the listed final IRS forms.
To update your copy of TaxCut for the 1999 tax year, open TaxCut and choose Update TaxCut from the Tools menu. The program does the rest.

• Final IRS Forms
• Federal Calculation Alerts
• Workarounds and Other Problems
• Latest Versions of TaxCut Help
• Instructions for Downloading the Update
• Frequently Asked Question -- Updates

Final IRS Forms

This update includes final versions of all forms.

Federal Calculation Alerts

• Child/Dependent Care Worksheet -- Child Care Provided by an Employer
• 8606 Worksheet and Recharacterized Roth IRA Conversions
• Roth IRA Contributions and 1998 IRA Conversions
• Schedule D -- Reporting the Sale of Section 1250 Property
• Earned Income Credit -- Rental Activities
• Form 1040A -- Dependent Who Is Not Your Son, Daughter, Adopted Child, Grandchild, Stepchild or Foster Child
• Earned Income Credit and Direct Rollover of Distribution
• Distributions from Roth IRAs and Roth IRA Conversions
• Erroneous 1999 Conversion to Roth IRA and 1998 Conversion Taxable in 1999
• Schedule SE -- Schedule C or Schedule F with No Material Participation
• Form 6251 -- Part IV, Line 24, Computation Using Maximum Capital Gains Rates
• Depreciation Worksheet - Number of Years Over Which Asset is Being Depreciated

Workarounds and Other Problems

The program update corrects problems with these features.

• Schedule D -- Schedule Doesn't Print
• Loading Last Year's Information from a 1998 TurboTax Return
• Last Year's Data Worksheet
• Schedule D -- Reporting Expired Options
• Schedule D -- Reporting Sale of Stock Acquired on Various Dates
• Statutory Employees -- Blank Schedule C Created
• Seller-Financed Mortgage Interest -- Schedule B or Schedule 1 not Printing
• Schedule EIC -- Schedule not Printing if Reporting More than Two Qualifying Children
• IRA Recharacterizations -- Recharacterization Explanation Doesn't Print
• Early Distributions from Roth IRAs
• Earned Income Credit and 1998 Roth IRA Conversions Taxable Over Four Years

Latest Versions of TaxCut Help

The program update includes the latest versions of TaxCut online help. Click here to read more about it.