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You can use Quicken to simplify

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preparing your federal income tax return.

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To do this,

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assign Tax Line items to your

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categories

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and

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categorize your transactions

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throughout the year. Quicken will

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generate the necessary tax reports for you

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.

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Track your tax-related transactions

Many categories in Quicken are linked to Tax Line items . These line items come from based on the latest Federal Tax code. Categories associated with the These Tax Line item are used to items help populate the Tax Summary report ( and are used when exporting you your tax report data to TurboTax).

For example, if you're using the Quicken category transactions assigned to the Gifts & Donations: Charity, all the transactions with this category are tracked and automatically mapped to federal form  Schedule A: Cash charity contributions on your federal tax return.

In addition to the pre-defined tax-related categories that come pre-populated in Quicken, you can assign a specific , Federal Tax Line item to any category or subcategory--, including any custom categories you have createdcreate.

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Assign Tax Line items to categories

To Follow these steps to assign Tax Line items to categories:

  1. In Quicken, choose

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  1. Window

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  1. menu Categories to open the Categories window.

  2. Select the category

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  1. you want to

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  1. modify.

  2. Click the

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  1. Edit

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  1. icon.

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  1. Turn on the Tax-Related switch.

  2. Select the

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  1. appropriate Tax Schedule/Form you will use.

  2. Choose a Tax Line option.

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  3. Click Save.

Quicken will use this information to generate the Tax Schedule report and export data to TurboTax or other tax software.