All the IRS is interested in is the total dollar amount of W2Gs matches their figure. If you miss one you can be pretty sure you will hear from the IRS. There are high limit players in Las Vegas that hundreds and hundreds of W2G's. The IRS doesn't expect you to enter each one individually. The computers just compare the total. Turbotax which I have used for years is dumb software program. It is designed for the casual gambler who has one or two W2G's a year.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, TedChee@... wrote:
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> Earlier this month, just finished 2011 taxes (yes, 2011).
>
> Use Turbotax & always have had a lot of W2Gs to post so I wait till the
> local IRS office gets their run (around July) & then ask them to run what
> they have in their computer. Then match all those up to what I have just in
> case I lost one or some casino reports something that I didn't know about.
>
> Anyway, posting all that in Turbotax is tedious so created a spreadsheet
> with the casinos that I frequent & info that normally appears, namely, name,
> address, etc., tax ID #. Then I copy & paste which is the fastest way
> I've found so far. Even doing it this way it still takes quite a bit of time.
>
> Has anybody been able to do this more efficiently?
>
> I wish Turbotax had a ditto feature so that info could be copied from the
> previous entry. Anybody know how to do that?
>
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