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Resolved:Unable to E-file Due to Negative Business Use Percentage

If you use a vehicle for business and you do not have records of personal mileage driven for the vehicle, TurboTax will use a special allocation to determine your business use percent.
 
For vehicles that were placed in service for business use after 12/15/2013, the business use percent was incorrectly calculating as a negative amount.
 
This error was prevent e-filing.
 

Who Was Affected?

 If you meet all of the following you may have been affected by this issue:

  • Started using vehicle for business on or after 12/16/2012.
  • Chose to use Standard Mileage Deduction for vehicle expense.
  • You do not have records of personal miles driven for the whole year.

 

Solution:

This issue has been resolved in a TurboTax update that was released on 2/7/2013.

For assistance with updating TurboTax please refer to the How to Update TurboTax support article.

 
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