Tax Planner Errors
Windows User for 2026 subscription. Been using Quicken since 1994.
Whats going on with Quicken lately?
Today I saw incredible errors in the tax planner.
- Scheduled estimated tax payments is messed up the scheduled amount is $28,000 and the Planner shows $112,000
- Taxable SS Income is scheduled monthly for a total of $50,817.6 and the Planner shows $57,248
- This is nuts…
Anyone else using Tax Planner with this crazy stuff going on?
Best Answer
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Regarding the SS split category issue: Sometimes a Reminder can get corrupted and there really is not fix when that happens other than to try doing the following:
- Try editing the splits to get them set up correctly, again. This will often resolve such issues.
- If #1 doesn't resolve it: Try deleting the Reminder (the entire series) and then set up a new Reminder to replace it.
I had a similar issue with my SS Reminder splits starting with January, as well….a little different in that it replaced the gross SS benefit amount with the net deposit amount and then removed the splits for the various deductions. This happened in 3 out of 4 SS income Reminders in 3 different data files. I tried to fix the splits but they could not be fixed. So, I ended up deleting the bad Reminders and setting up new ones to replace them. So far, it looks like they are OK and stable now.
If one of these 2 things fixes the category splits issue, it should also fix the Tax Planner issues.
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Hello @petermartin1950,
Thank you for letting us know you're encountering this problem. To help troubleshoot, please provide more information:
- Did you first notice this issue today?
- When you encountered this problem, were you setting up the Tax Planner in Quicken for the first time?
- If not, when was the last time it was showing correct information?
- Are you able to see any obvious indication of what is throwing it off, such as duplicate or missing transactions?
I look forward to your reply!
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My recent experience with TaxPlanner for 2026 was similar however now it's corrected itself.
When my 2026 pension, social security and 401k income was planned as an Income Reminder, TaxPlanner appeared to be looking back at 2025 data and the calculations were incorrect.
Once actual transactions for each income category downloaded this month (and I accepted them) everything looked normal.
Hope this helps!
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As I said, Ive been a Quicken user since 1994. This issue occurred the day I asked the question…Jan. 27, 2026.
There is no obvious reason for the error. I've edited the scheduled transactions to no avail. The error is also occurring with the State Income tax scheduled transaction.
There are other errors in Quicken. Too many to write up for a programmer to trouble shoot. Very frustrating. The program seems to be losing reliability. I am more than glad to discuss with someone over the phone and allow Quicken to enter my computer to see the issues in real time.
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I've noticed that sometimes Tax Planner (TP) sometimes randomly changes the option I selected to one of the other options. That, can cause some significant errors in TP's projections. It does not happen a lot but every few days I will find that the TP projection of tax refund or tax owed was changed from the last Quicken session. That prompts me to review every section of TP and it's always been found that this issue occurred in just 1 or 2 sections. I fix those and everything if fine, again, for a few days and then the same thing happens in a different 1 or 2 sections. So, yeah, there does seem to be some reliability/instability issues with the 2026 TP.
Other than this it seems to me that TP is functioning normally.
I should also state that for the first 1-2 months of just about every year I usually experience at least one TP stability/reliability issue. I usually just ride it out for the 1st couple of months and then everything seems to be self-resolved.
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I've suffered through this same glitch in the TP. Frustrating and renders the program unreliable for the intended purpose. Further, the TP does not work until I cancel the multiple requests to insert a program disk I don't have as the 2026 purchase is a download
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You should not be getting any requests to insert a program disk. When that request comes up it indicates there is a good chance the last version update was not correctly or completely installed. If this is the case, then using Windows to uninstall Quicken, then downloading/installing a fresh copy of the installation file from either your online Quicken.com account or from will usually resolve that issue. (This will not affect your data file, your Preference settings, your online services nor your saved customized reports.)
And maybe, just maybe, it might also resolve the issue you are seeing with TP.
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I reinstalled Quicken as suggested. Program does not request to install missing components anymore. However, the program errors in Scheduled Federal Tax Pmts continue. Four Scheduled amounts of $7,000 for Federal Est. Tax Pmts post as $112,000 in the Tax Planner Summary page while appearing correctly in the Estimated detail at the bottom of the page. The State Tax Est Pmts now appear correctly in the Summary page.
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Glad to hear that my prior post resolved the one issue that it was intended to address: The "install missing components" error message.
As mentioned, it was a stretch of a wish that reinstalling Quicken might also fix the TP issues. So if the State Tax Est Pmts is fixed that is a partial win.
As far as the Fed Est Tax Pmts goes: I set up 4 scheduled amts of $7K each in a test file and it correctly showed $28K for the year on both the detail view and on the summary view. I'll play around with it some more to see if there is something that I'm missing.
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I am also seeing changed settings in the Tax Planner as described by @Boatnmaniac above. After entering month-end dividends, several of my settings were changed from "Scheduled bills and Deposits" to one of the other settings.
I run the Tax Planner periodically to look for any significant changes in the tax or refund due. When there is a change, I must go through all the settings and correct whatever has changed. Very annoying!
I have not installed any updates since I carefully set up these settings a couple of weeks ago, but I did open a backup file and then returned to my current working file.
After correcting the settings, I ran a Validate and Repair and it did did not find any problems or affect the Planner settings.
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On Friday Jan 31, 2026 I called Quicken Help Desk and spoke for about an Hour +. Bottom line, I was asked to detail specifically with screen shots the issues with the TP as well as initiating additional Topics about all the other issues with this program. The associate was very helpful and cordial. But no bananas in the end.
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Thanks for the update @petermartin1950.
Because this issue happens randomly, it will be really hard for us to catch and document. If I had to guess, I would say it happens after I have accepted Reminders that affect the Tax Planner data, but that is just a guess.
I suppose we could keep periodic PDF copies of the Tax Planner report and screen shots of the correct settings. We would then watch for changes in the refund or tax due amount. If it changes significantly, indicating that a setting has changed, we would make a PDF of the incorrect report, then dig in and find what has changed, capture screen shots, restore the correct settings, and capture the report again.
Presumably they will only take action if they see reports from several users, but even then it would be very difficult for them to find the problem.
If anyone has a better idea I am all ears.
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Correction: Friday January 30, 2026
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January SS entry to checking account using a scheduled transaction
February scheduled transaction for SS income for 2/25/2026
Details of split for 2/26/2026 Deposit incorrectly jumbled split from the scheduled transaction
Tax Planner (TP) showing incorrect Other Income of $113,238
Detail of incorrect Other Income Taxable SS Income of -$220
Incorrect detail of 2026 remaining scheduled transactions, as well as missing all other scheduled transaction splits
Can anyone help get this issue with Quicken remedied?
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Regarding the SS split category issue: Sometimes a Reminder can get corrupted and there really is not fix when that happens other than to try doing the following:
- Try editing the splits to get them set up correctly, again. This will often resolve such issues.
- If #1 doesn't resolve it: Try deleting the Reminder (the entire series) and then set up a new Reminder to replace it.
I had a similar issue with my SS Reminder splits starting with January, as well….a little different in that it replaced the gross SS benefit amount with the net deposit amount and then removed the splits for the various deductions. This happened in 3 out of 4 SS income Reminders in 3 different data files. I tried to fix the splits but they could not be fixed. So, I ended up deleting the bad Reminders and setting up new ones to replace them. So far, it looks like they are OK and stable now.
If one of these 2 things fixes the category splits issue, it should also fix the Tax Planner issues.
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TP Summary showing incorrect information based on scheduled transactions which splits have been jumbled. This is as of Feb 2026. And the Feb SS Income has not yet been processed.
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Did you do what I had suggested? As mentioned in my previous post, if you do that then TP Summary and Details should be fixed.
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Hey Moderators! Anyone interested in fixing this Tax Planner?
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Hey Petermartin1950, you interested in answering questions directed to you that could help address the issue?
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Thank you for your response. I had tried all the same steps you took. It corrected the TP issue. However, the errors recurred again and again. Then I validated the file. The error came back. Then I deleted the scheduled SS payment transaction and reentered with the correct splits again. It's been a day since this step, and TP is showing incorrect Taxable SS Benefits.
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If you go to Edit > Preferences > Mobile and Web, is the Sync setting On (slider to the right)? That often causes splits to be scrambled. The problem appears after syncing, often after doing a One Step Update. If you don't use Quicken on the Web or the mobile apps, there is no harm and much stability to be gained by turning it off.
If you do use Quicken on the Web and/or the mobile apps, you might consider turning Sync off for a while to see if that prevents corruption of your splits.
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You said:
Then I deleted the scheduled SS payment transaction and reentered with the correct splits again. It's been a day since this step, and TP is showing incorrect Taxable SS Benefits.
Please clarify. Did you delete just the scheduled SS payment transaction that is the issue or did you do as I'd suggested and deleted the entire Reminder series? If the Reminder series has been corrupted (which sometimes does happen), then deleting just the one scheduled transaction will not fix the issue. The entire Reminder series will need to be deleted and then re-added.
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This is not a Tax Planner issue. Tax Planner is just displaying the results of corrupted and jumbled scheduled reminders with splits.
The link shows the steps I took a couple of months ago to finally keep cloud sync from scrambling my split reminders. Even with Sync Off, Quicken is still syncing certain items to the cloud so turning it off is not a total solution. Deleting the reminder series might work because in theory a new reminder series will be sent to the cloud file, but if not try the steps in the link. The number of complaints about this has dropped so I was kind of hoping they did something to help. Apparently not in your case. Knock on wood but I have not had a scrambled split since then whereas before applying the measures in the link, it happened frequently. Changes in tax planner values were a reliable indicator that it happened again.
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