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February 17, 2024
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Successfully Printed South Carolina 2023 Income Tax Return

  • February 17, 2024
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I finally was able to print, save as a PDF and file our 2023 South Carolina income tax return. Someone who previously worked for the SCDOR contacted their IT department and learned that SC's ES1040ES estimated 2024 tax form is not yet finalized. TurboTax is designed not to permit printing or saving as a PDF until all forms are available & loaded onto their program. (Frankly, I don't understand TT's "logic.") However, if the filer goes into TT's program & "defeats" their calculation of estimated taxes for 2024 (by zeroing out the calculation), the filer can finally print and save the return as a PDF. Electronic filing can also be completed.

 

I hope that this post saves others lots of heartache!!!

    9 replies

    February 17, 2024

    It worked!  Thanks so much!

    February 18, 2024

    Thanks Catina, followed your instructions and was able to print my SC 2023 return. If only TT was as help full, I could save myself a lot of time. I am filling your message away for next year, based upon other postings this seems to be an annual issued.  EJN01

    February 19, 2024

    I have tried all suggestions and still have the same issue on 2/19/2024 in regard with not being able to print the SC file for review.  After receiving notice and forwarded to notification link, i receive the same error.  Called TurboTax help line but representative did not seem to understand my questions or the TurboTax program.  The representative searched the TurboTax database but found no answers.  Indicated their system was slow and that I should wait a week and call back if it is still an issue.  I do not know enough about going into the software code and changing tax information filters as previously suggested.  Since we are paying for all the Intuit products in a service fee environment in lieu of purchasing the program, I expected better service and products but in my experience with TurboTtax and Quicken, the product and service are declining.  

     

    How do I get assistance on this issue I and others are having.  Does TT have specific instructions on how to fix this error?

    February 20, 2024

    just spent 1 hour plus with a TurboTax expert who was very accommodating and tried EVERYTHING. After consulting with higher ups he gave me the bad news. There is nothing I can do to print a copy of my SC return because the program DIDN’T SAVE IT when it was transmitted to SC. All the information is there, but it won’t save a pdf  to my hard drive and won’t print (possibly because SC estimated tax forms aren’t available—although the estimated tax forms for 2024 appear to there in the forms menu. Bottom line, THIS IS A MAJOR CODING PROBLEM

    The agent suggested I call SC and ask them to send me a copy of my SC return! What are the odds of that working!

    TurboTax needs to fix the problem it created!! What a fiasco.

    February 20, 2024

    If you have already e-filed your tax return, you cannot “defeat” the estimated tax form. Need a different solution—TurboTax recoding its program

    February 23, 2024

    I had same problem of being unable to print SC forms. What I did was go to SC1040ES Worksheet and in Part III, select Voucher Printing Options, uncheck A Print Forms.  Then select "C" Do Not Print Vouchers. I was then able to print my entire return for review and save as PDF less the SC1040ES forms.

    February 23, 2024

    Plan to do this.  Many thanks!

    February 23, 2024

    I too was unable to print our SC 2023 return with the same message from TT.  Just to further explain how I zeroed our SC 1040-ES, I deleted the SC return, then after TT did a new one, I went to the line for estimated taxes under the Other Income and Deductions section (I think) and chose edit.  You do have to enter some numbers along the way, but eventually there is an option to enter that you do not want to do SC estimated taxes for 2024.  Now I am able to print the SC return.  This is ridiculous!  We pay way too much money to have to waste so much time researching and tweaking our return to fix their bugs!

    February 23, 2024

    Totally agree with you conclusion.  If TT cannot offer a complete package to their clients, they should not be offering it at all.  ejn01

    March 5, 2024

    After 3 separate calls to Turbo Tax Support and hours on the phone with the only assistance given by support over the six weeks of being told to "just be patient and try every day until the forms are available" the information provided to ZERO out the estimated amount worked PERFECTLY!!.. Thank you so much for the solution to my issue.

    March 5, 2024

    This worked for me too, but only after I had already filed electronically.  Thanks for the tip, sure would have been nice for TT to provide more help here.  As for as the review was concerned, there were no problems in my return......

    March 19, 2024

    I followed the process for the Georgia Tax. It did not work. 10 years of using Turbo Tax Business for the Federal, and I finally decided to pay for Georgia and file electronically rather than simply populating a Ga Form 501 (usually took about 10 minutes). This TurboTax error has already wasted 4 hours of research and still no pdf available.

    February 7, 2025

    It worked. Thanks so much.