All About TurboTax
Earned Income Credit
State Knowledge
Internal Revenue Code Chapter and Verse
Very Obscure Tax Trivia
100

TurboTax was originally developed by this company, and was purchased by Intuit in 1993.

What is Chipsoft?

100

If a prior claim for the Earned Income Credit has been disallowed, a taxpayer would need to file this form to claim the credit. 

What is Form 8862?

100

This Southern state has the lowest average property tax bill of any in the US.

What is Alabama?

100

This Section of the Internal Revenue Code addresses the sale of a principal residence that has been owned and lived in for over 2 years.

What is Section 121?

100

If your property was destroyed in a natural disaster or taken by eminent domain, you could complete an exchange under this section of the Internal Revenue Code.

What is Section 1033?

200

This former Treasury secretary got in hot water for errors on his tax returns, which he initially tried to blame on TurboTax. 

Who is Timothy Geithner?

200

When preparing a return with EIC as a paid preparer, you must include Form 8867 on the return for this purpose.

What is due diligence?

200
Many states have tax reciprocity, but this state has reciprocal agreements with more states than any other, with a total of 7. 

What is Kentucky?

200

If you're thinking about taking a deduction for personal expenses, you had better check this section of the Internal Revenue Code to see the rules.

What is Section 262?

200

New York City imposes an extra tax on "altered" bagels. These activities make a bagel "altered" and subject to the tax.

What are slicing, toasting and topping?

300

The Canadian version of TurboTax has a French-language edition which was formerly called ImpôtRapide, but is now known as this.

What is TurboImpôt?

300

For TY22, the age range in which you can claim the Earned Income Credit if you have no dependents.

What is 25 to 64?

300

Based on 2022 GDP, California's state economy is larger than the national economy of all but these four countries worldwide.

What are the USA, China, Japan and Germany?

300

Section 199A of the Code, which contains this deduction, is also sometimes used as a shorthand name for the deduction.

What is the Qualified Business Income (QBI) Deduction?

300

To be considered a real estate professional, an individual must provide more than one-half of his or her total personal services in real property trades or businesses in which he or she materially participates, AND perform more than 750 hours of services during the tax year in real property trades or businesses. Services provided as part of W2 employment can count towards these limits, but only on this condition.

What is the taxpayer must own at least 5% of the employer? 

400

This firm has been the exclusive provider of Audit Defense for TurboTax since 1999.

What is Tax Resources, Inc. (a/k/a TaxAudit)

400

This is the maximum amount of Earned Income Credit that can be claimed by a US citizen with 2 dependents, and a valid Social Security Number, who lived in Florida for 5 months and the US Virgin Islands for 7 months. 

What is $0?

400

This midwestern state has an income tax, but TurboTax doesn't make state software for Partnerships or S-Corporations there - likely because they aren't required to file state returns.

What is Michigan?

400

In the affordable housing industry, developers seek out Low-Income Housing Credits that are available under this section of the Internal Revenue Code.

What is Section 42? 

400

In 2005, Sections 1400M and 1400N were added to the Internal Revenue Code, establishing this type of zone, in response to Hurricane Katrina.

What is the Gulf Opportunity Zone (GO Zone)? 

500

This was the first tax year that I used TurboTax to prepare my own taxes. Prior to that, I had always prepared them on paper, by hand.

What is tax year 2000?

500
Active duty military can choose to exclude or include these types of pay when calculating their income for the Earned Income Credit. 

What are combat pay and basic allowances (BAH/BAS)? 

500

This is the number of US states I've visited, plus the number of states of India I've visited.

What is 54?

500

This subchapter of the Internal Revenue Code talks about partners and partnerships. 

What is subchapter K? 

500

A Section 1043 exchange could be available for property sold under this very narrow, rare set of circumstances.

What is property sold by a US Government employee to avoid a conflict of interest?