Turbo-tax what-if worksheet problem

lpw

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Jan 4, 2002, 3:34:02 PM1/4/02

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I have been using Turbotax for several years and have never been able
to access the "What-if" worksheet from the Tools menu. It would be
tremendously useful for me to be able to see the impact on my total
tax bill of certain events that I can control. Why is this option
"greyed out" on my tools menu? Is it not available in Turbotax
deluxe? Thanks for any help. --- LPW

Peter J. Ricciardiello

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Jan 4, 2002, 4:47:04 PM1/4/02

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lpw typed ...

I recall in previous versions (I do not have TT2001 yet) the What-if
worksheet being available at the end of the entire TurboTax Easy Step
process (or what ever they call the interview for us non-tax
accountants).

In other words, after I ran the final review, corrected any errors, then
printed the review, the what-if worksheet became available to use, which
I did.

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lpw

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Jan 5, 2002, 1:10:23 AM1/5/02

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Thanks. That's very helpful and is probably the problem for me. I
always had hoped to use it to help make decisions for the current
return, rather than the next year's return. I also don't always
correct every single error as some of them seem to be geared towards
electronic filing,which I don't do. I'll see what happens after I
finish this return.

lpw

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Jan 10, 2002, 7:32:53 PM1/10/02

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I got on the phone and called Intuit support. It turns out that
despite the fact that it's in the Tools menu, there is no "What-if"
worksheet. The guy didn't know why they left it in, but apparently a
lot of people asked about it last year (2000). It wasn't implemented
in TurboTax Deluxe 2000 and it isn't in 2001 either.

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:47:04 -0500, Peter J. Ricciardiello
<pjr...@twcny.rrx.com> wrote:

Ernest Cassirer

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Jan 10, 2002, 11:25:20 PM1/10/02

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I just clicked on the "what if" worksheet in the TT 2001 tools menu, and it
came right up.

"lpw" <l...@qwest.net> wrote in message
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Peter J. Ricciardiello

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Jan 10, 2002, 11:41:33 PM1/10/02

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lpw typed ...

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> It wasn't implemented
> in TurboTax Deluxe 2000 and it isn't in 2001 either.

Huh? Then I must have been dreaming when I played with this feature last
year...

Sounds like it's time for a game of "Customer Service Roulette." Keep on
calling them back until you get the answer for which you were really
hoping. :)

lpw

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Jan 19, 2002, 5:37:25 PM1/19/02

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I don't know if anyone other than me cares about this, but I
discovered an item in the Help file that said that "what-if" exists in
Quicken Basic but not in Deluxe, where the far more cumbersome and
inflexible tax planning wizard has taken its place. That's progress
for you.

lpw

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Jan 23, 2002, 12:15:10 AM1/23/02

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That worked. Thanks for clearing up the mystery. I don't know why
they have buried it so deeply that even their own people don't know
about it anymore.

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 04:07:54 GMT, dgo...@noisp.com (D. Gordon) wrote:

>x-no-archive: yes

>The What-If Planner still exists in TurboTax Deluxe as a Form, under the name
>Tax Planner Worksheet. Click - Forms - Open a Form - Show My Return -Planner
>-Open. You can even save your changed form under a new name, awkward but it
>works.
>
>Dave