To remove Form 8801 Credit for Prior Year Minimum Tax—Individuals, Estates, and Trusts from your return:

1. From within your TaxAct return (Online or Desktop), click Federal. (on smaller devices, click in the top left corner of your screen, then click Federal).
2. Click the Other Credits dropdown, click the Other credits that appears, then click Credit for Prior Year Minimum Tax - Form 8801.
3. Proceed through the screens and remove any entries that were added. If you are not sure if an entry was added, highlight the entry, press Delete, then press Enter on your keyboard. If you get a message stating that clearing the field will restore its original value, click OK to continue. It is okay to leave values in fields if they were placed there by the program.
4. Once you reach the screen titled Credit for Prior Year Minimum Tax - Credit, you should find that the return can now be successfully filed without Form 8801.

Additional Information

IRS Form 8801 allows for a credit in certain circumstances in for a taxpayer who paid the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) in a prior year.

Certain numbers are automatically pulled into the form from the current year's return in case the form may be needed. Additional information from the prior year return is necessary to enable the final calculation. If you import the prior year return in TaxAct, the applicable information is automatically drawn in from the prior year return. Otherwise, that data must be entered into the system.

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