So as usual I am attempting to do my taxes online. This year my catch-22 is that I am unable to get rid of a "phantom rental property". For some reason Turbo Tax online is convinced that I have a rental property despite my never having told it so. Maybe they know something I don't. The problem isn't that they do this but that in doing so they generate a form called an E-1 form. This form is error checked prior to filing electronically to the state of massachusetts. It checks to make sure that there is a real address for the property entered. I agree with the logic but that is where things start to get ugly. So in order to enter an address you are supposed to return to the Federal return to enter the property address. Now that is what I tried. But since there is no rental property the answer either yes or no on the Federal return doesn't show said phantom rental property generating the form. So the next option offered by the helpful community is to delete the form itself. Now the fun thing here is that there is a button for deleting forms. It allows me the option to delete an odd named form called a Pg 2 Schedule E. Doing this warns me all sorts of stuff and then after accepting to delete the E-1 pg. 2 thing it proceeds to do absolutely nothing. The form is still there. So I looked online to find I am not the only Mass resident stuck unable to e-file because of the loop condition of having a form that shouldn't exist that can't be deleted that can't be ignored before filing. Entries include the stuff below. So I believe I am stuck and need to kill a tree to mail this sucker through the postal service. It's not the end of the world but annoying since TurboTax cleverly charges you for the whole eFiling before you get to the "validation" screens. Now if my time was not worth anything I might spend a few hundred hours in principle to get my $40 back from them for providing a product that is unusable for the stated task. But for now it is probably easier for me to use the trusty postal service and try again next year to use the wonders of the Internet and computers to do this seemingly computerizable task.

BTW: The final winning piece of advice came from the following gentleman..

"With Turbo Tax Online, you can't delete it, but you can work around it. I went back to Federal and filled in some mumbo jumbo for the information for my non-existent rental property, and then when I was done, I clicked on "revisit" in the rental income section, and then deleted the property. I then filed my Federal. After that, I went back and created a rental property, and just wrote something like:
Property type: I have no rental property. Turbo Tax won't let me delete this form
Address: No rental property
City: None
State: MA
Zip: 00000."

As long as I didn't say I had any income from the property, no rental income form appeared in my state taxes to file, so it looks like MA is just going to see zero income from rental property and no worksheet or form or anything.

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I have the same problem and i havent filed my federal yet--my federal shows correct info and I am also unable to delete schedule E-1 I don't show a delete form selection anywhere
( Posted 02/16/09 06:04 PM ,Views by community 98 )
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fzhu99 commented same problem to delete a form for MA Schedule E-1!!!!!!
Poor software!!!
No answer ????
( Posted 03/16/09 03:24 PM ,Views by community 45 )
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Ben78 commented I have the same damn problem
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E30 commented I have the same exact problem! Their software is messed up! And I call turbotax people and they are clue less as to what to do! And I already paid them too!
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Jeremywh commented I'm having the same issue as well. I could delete the E-1 form on my Federal Taxes, but that didn't delete it on my State taxes.
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