Please add the planning tools to Mac Quicken, as this was the primary motivation for my purchase. I was frustratingly surprised to see that the planning tabs are not available on MAC, which seems both silly and antiquated. Thank you.
The Windows Planning tab is many different functions. They aren't going to all just appear because you ask for the tab.
Most likely most of them are already requested in other Idea threads that can be voted on. For instance, Savings Goals, Lifetime Planner, and Debt Reduction have definitely been suggested before. The reason they aren't there is just because each feature takes time to develop, and Quicken Mac has a lot of catching up to do from the time it was totally rewritten.
For reference here is the Quicken Windows Planning tab:
Hello @OguguJE,
There are already existing requests for these tools. Please review below and if they're not already in planned status, add your vote!
I hope this helps!
Quicken Kristina
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@OguguJE Idea posts — feature requests for the developers — are the only way for users to influence the developers here. You can add your votes and comments to existing threads, or if you can't find one for a feature you want, you can create a new Idea post. The four Idea threads which address what you're asking for and linked above. Three have recently been marked as "Planned", so we're likely to see some or all of them in 2024. The fourth one has a lot of votes but the developers haven't commented yet; you should add your vote.
I am one of millions of Baby Boomers needing a Retirement report form including such things as RMD to be included in one's income tax report. Please address this as I don't like Windows. We are MAC users!
PAM
@Pam Wise If you're looking for a tax report showing your retirement account withdrawals, the existing Quicken Mac tax reports do that — you just have to have the transactions recorded correctly.
There are two ways to make your RMD show up as taxable income to work around Quicken Mac not having a specific built-in way to do it. One requires two transactions to transfer the money, and the other requires a little hack. In both cases, you start by recording the sale of whatever security you sold to make the withdrawal. In Quicken Mac, a sale transaction creates Cash in the account. Now the trick is how you move the cash out of the IRA account into the receiving account (typically a checking account or non-retirement brokerage account.
In the first method, you enter one transaction in the IRA account as Type=Payment/Deposit for the amount of your withdrawal, and use Category=Transfer. This is not a linked transfer to the receiving account just a generic Transfer, a special category Quicken uses to make money appear or disappear without being income or expense. Then you enter a second transaction in the receiving account, a deposit (money-in) transaction using the category Personal Income > Taxable IRA Withdrawal (which is assigned to the proper 1099-R tax line for the Tax Schedule report). It's this transaction which will show up in your Tax Schedule report. It's funky, because the first transaction makes the money go out of the IRA account without specifying where it went, and the second transaction in the checking account records income without specifying where it came from — but both accounts have the correct balance and the taxable income is recognized.
In the second method, which is what I use, you use a linked transfer to show the movement of money between the two accounts; but because transfers can't be income or expenses, you then need to manufacture the taxable income. This sounds a little more complex, but it's pretty simple:
"Adjustment" is a special category in Quicken Mac which makes money appear or disappear without showing up in any report. So in this approach, one split line creates the taxable income which is needed for the tax report, and the adjustment split line makes that money come from nowhere by keeping the transaction amount unchanged. This is how to work around the transfer from the IRA account not being able to also have an income category.
