Known Report Problems??

Mark Shafton
Mark Shafton Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

Just started running year end reports and the tax summary is incomplete. It is missing 2 of 4 quarterly state payments which are correctly listed and categorized in my register. It is also missing a federal tax pay again correctly listed and categorized. Is this a known issue? Are others having this issue? Quicken classic on window 11 all updates for windows and quicken installed. Thanks in advance!

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  • Mark Shafton
    Mark Shafton Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭
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    In all of these tests, I accidentally set 1/1/24 to 12/31/25. Since I reset the file every year, there are no 2024 transactions it my current file. HOWEVER, It DID properly report all of my 2025 transactions, so I can work with that but, there still seems to be a bug in reporting. FYI I also tried the predefined quicken tax report and it had the same errors when the 2025 dates were selected. Thanks everyone!

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  • NotACPA
    NotACPA Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    In your register, double-check the category used for the transactions and the tax line(s) assigned to that category.

    Because for Q to properly report 2, and not the other 2, points to a data-entry error more than anything, although it COULD be data file corruption also.

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  • Mark Shafton
    Mark Shafton Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    All transactions identical and categorized as tax using quicken pre defined state and federal tax categories. Categories all have the correct tax line identification. Validate reports file clean with no corruption detected. Thanks for the suggestions.

  • q_lurker
    q_lurker Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd delete and re-enter the transactions missing from the report(s).

    Anything common about the missing transactions vs included transactions? Account used for the payments, dates, Payees.

    If you enter a new duplicate transaction, does it get missed or picked up?

    Is this a saved report? If you recreate the report from scratch, do they get included?

  • Mark Shafton
    Mark Shafton Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    This was a saved report and I deleted it and recreated but had the same issue. Everything about the 4 transactions is identical

  • Mark Shafton
    Mark Shafton Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    Sorry it got cut off…identical except the dates , 4 quartely payments to the state. The last 2 show up and the first 2 do not. The stand alone federal payment does not show up. Not sure how to delete and recreate online payments without creating more issues. New transactions do appear, the problems seem to be in the first 6 months of 2025.

  • Jim_Harman
    Jim_Harman Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    I assume you have checked the date range of the report to make sure it covers all of 2025?

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  • Mark Shafton
    Mark Shafton Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    Yes :-) I have been using this for 20+ years. First time I ever had a problem with tax reporting

  • Mark Shafton
    Mark Shafton Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭
    Answer ✓

    In all of these tests, I accidentally set 1/1/24 to 12/31/25. Since I reset the file every year, there are no 2024 transactions it my current file. HOWEVER, It DID properly report all of my 2025 transactions, so I can work with that but, there still seems to be a bug in reporting. FYI I also tried the predefined quicken tax report and it had the same errors when the 2025 dates were selected. Thanks everyone!

  • Q97
    Q97 Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭✭

    A shot in the dark, but could the “missing” payments be getting attributed to the prior year (2024)? Do they show up in the report for 2024?

  • Mark Shafton
    Mark Shafton Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    No real way to test it as the years are in separate files. I keep each year in a file.

  • NotACPA
    NotACPA Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    But, in your current file, you can request a 2024 tax report … which is what @Q97 suggested.

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    Now running Quicken Windows Subscription, Business & Personal
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  • Mark Shafton
    Mark Shafton Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    I did not understand but do now and tested. If I select 1/1 to 12/31/24 only investment transactions appear. None of the payments show up. Thanks for clarifying.

  • bmbass
    bmbass Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭✭

    @Mark Shafton

    Could you check to see if the missing items were part of a SPLIT transaction? And if so, were these missing items not the FIRST entry in the SPLIT?

    There is a bug in the Reports software where non-first SPLIT transactions are not shown, and I don't think it has ever been fixed.

  • Mark Shafton
    Mark Shafton Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    Thanks for that info. They are not splits. Simple payment transactions.

  • Jim_Harman
    Jim_Harman Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can't explain your state tax issues, but was the Federal tax payment that is missing an estimated tax payment that was paid early in the year?

    In that case, Quicken automatically and correctly assigns payments with a Tax line item of "Form 1040:Federal estimated tax, qtrly" to the previous tax year. The payment is due Jan. 15; I am not sure what Quicken's cutoff date is.

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  • Mark Shafton
    Mark Shafton Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    No, the fed payment was just a paymen on balance due. The state tax payments were all estimated payments made quarterly.

  • Jim_Harman
    Jim_Harman Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 1

    A payment of Federal tax due for the previous year is not a taxable event. Whatever Category you use for that should not have a Tax line item. It is not deductible and does not count towards this year's tax liability. Likewise, a Federal tax refund refund is not taxable income.

    Therefore it should not appear in the Tax Planner or in the Tax reports.

    State and local taxes are a different story; they are deductible on Federal Schedule A in the year they are paid.

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  • Mark Shafton
    Mark Shafton Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭

    Ok thanks

  • LLV
    LLV Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭

    Just So I understand this correctly. I can see what you are saying but when I pay my 4 estimated taxes the one paid Jan 15 , 2026 is for the 2025 year. So what would you do to get that to be included in the 2025 report.

  • Jim_Harman
    Jim_Harman Quicken Windows Subscription SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭

    @LLV If you have used a Category with the correct Tax Line Item for your estimated taxes, Quicken automatically credits the payment due Jan 15 to the previous tax year.

    There is no built-in Category for estimated tax payments, you must create your own and give it the tax line item "Form1040:Federal estimated tax, qtrly"

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  • LLV
    LLV Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭

    Thank you.