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TurboTax desktop will not let me delete my W4

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March 15, 2021
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I wanted to see the process for filing a new W-4 form, but then decided I do not want to include it in my tax returns. TurboTax is now autogenerating the W-4 forms along with Estimated Tax Payment vouchers and options. I have gone to the "form view" and tried deleting all the forms multiple times, but they keep autogenerating back up. Please help, I do not know how else to ensure these forms are not included in my tax return, and the only solution I have otherwise would be to start my taxes all over from the beginning. I am using the CD TurboTax Home & Business program.

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SteamTrain

Employee

Ok...

#1) you can just ignore them entirely. Those forms are not e-filed even if they get printed out. In order for them to do anything at all , you would have to actually submit them separately ....the W-4 to your employer (on paper), and the 1040ES to the IRS...several ways.....BUT none of them are ever actually e-filed...so the employer & the IRS do not even know they were generated.

#2) anyhow...one way to get rid of them (I haven't tried total elimination).

In Forms Mode

2a) Open the "Es & W4 Wksh" . In the "Choose the Method...." box.....put a X in "By making estimated tax payments" selection

2b) Open the "Est Tax Options" sheet. go to the box labeled "Prepare Estimated Tax Vouchers" ....and click on the selection for "No, do not prepare estimated tax vouchers".

Save your file...and now, neither the W-4, nor the Estimated tax vouchers will be prepared/printed as a part of your tax file

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atchanAuthor

Just want to respond that this doesn't work and this is what I tried. Turbo Tax won't let me delete the "estimated tax options" worksheet no matter how many times I click "delete form".

SteamTrain

Employee

@atchan

Only the "Es & W4 Wksh" can be deleted entirely in Forms Mode....(as long as you are not in the middle of the W4 preparation interview)

Beyond that, you didn't really try my #2 advice...In "Forms Mode".

Look at picture below.

You leave the Est Tax Options worksheet alone...but you check a box IN that worksheet , and that checkbox stops the preparation of 1040ES Est Tax Vouchers.

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