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June 7, 2019
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Form 4868 extension payments

  • June 7, 2019
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I was traveling out of the country for four months with my wife.  When we returned in mid-April I filed a form 4868 with an estimated partial tax payment and the request for extension of time for being out of the country.

I cannot find any place in TurboTax to file the amount I paid

How do I handle it?

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VolvoGirl
Employee
June 7, 2019
If your extension payment did not automatically show up on 1040 line 70 you need to enter it.  So make sure it's not already there before you enter it!

You can type estimates paid in the search box at the top of your return and click Find and it will give you a link to Jump To the screen where you enter Extension Payments.

To enter the amount you paid with an extension (including state extension)  go to
Federal Taxes (or Personal for H&B/Self Employed version)
Deductions and Credits
Choose Jump to Full List -or  I'll choose what I work on
Then scroll way down to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid
Other Income Taxes - Click the Start or Update button

Next page second section Payments with Extension
Either Visit All or Click Start or Update by the extension you paid
August 13, 2019

After completing our 2018 taxes using TurboTax, we owed zero taxes.  When I printed form 1040, it was two pages combined onto a single page.  There was no line 70 to show the amount I paid with the extension ($200).  Why is the form 1040 so short compared with 2017?  How do I show the $200 I paid – TurboTax had that info when I used EasyStep.

August 13, 2019

For 2018, the IRS totally redesigned the 1040 and also eliminated the 1040A and 1040EZ. "Redesigning" the 1040 means that they removed most of the lines on the 1040 and spread them across 6 schedules (1 through 6), so actually they really didn't simplify it at all.

 

The line referred to here (for the payment of tax with form 4868) is now line 71 on Schedule 5 of form 1040. Enter this amount as described above and then go looking for Schedule 5. I don't know if you are using the Online or Desktop software, but for Online, look for "Preview my 1040" and in Desktop look for Forms.

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July 5, 2022

where do I put the amount paid with the extension in the form?

 

DoninGA
Employee
July 5, 2022

@can016 wrote:

where do I put the amount paid with the extension in the form?

 


To enter, change or delete a payment made with an extension request (Federal, State, Local) -

  • Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home and Business)
  • Click on Deductions and Credits
  • Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown)
  • Scroll down to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid
  • On Income Taxes Paid, click on the start or update button

On the next screen select the type of extension payment made and click on the start or update button


Or enter federal extension payment in the Search box located in the upper right of the program screen. Click on Jump to federal extension payment


The federal extension payment will be shown on Schedule 3 Line 10. The amount from Schedule 3 Part II Line 15 flows to Form 1040 Line 31