Spent 3 hours on TurboTax before realizing I had the wrong tax form the whole time

I was trying to file my 2024 taxes and kept getting error messages that didn't make sense. Turned out I was using a 1099-NEC from 2023 instead of the new one my client sent in January. Cost me 3 hours of redoing everything and a lot of frustration. Has anyone else wasted time on a dumb form mix up like this?

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seanjackson2mo ago

Started triple checking dates on forms after that happened to me.

lucasschmidt2mo ago

Man, that's brutal. Seanjackson knows the struggle, happens to the best of us.

kellys782mo ago

Gotta push back on that a little, @lucasschmidt. Missing a deadline is on you, not a bad break. Triple checking is just basic responsibility, not some noble struggle.