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Level 3
February 18, 2026
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Latest Lacerte update has changed the State Basis Reduction calculation on the Depreciation Schedule

  • February 18, 2026
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FYI.  The latest Lacerte update has changed how the program calculates the State Basis Reduction on the Depreciation Input.

Prior to the update (and in all prior years), Lacerte would treat no input as $0.  Now the program treats this as same as Federal.  If you input a -1 into this field, Lacerte will give you a -1 for the State Basis Reduction on the State Depreciation Schedule.

There is no way to get a $0 State Basis Reduction if there is a Federal Basis Reduction.

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Intuit Community Champion
February 19, 2026

Yikes, that's an annoying glitch. Good find, thank you for highlighting this.

However, keep in mind this isn't a channel for communicating glitches to tech support. This is a peer-resource-sharing platform.

It's annoying, but you have to call support to submit this as a ticket for them to fix it.

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PVcpa8070Author
Level 3
February 19, 2026

I am not sure there is a channel for communicating glitches

abctax55
Level 15
February 20, 2026

MY channel is to bug:

@Kathi_at_Intuit 

How come Lacerte keeps breaking things that were working fine?  I'm to the point I am even double checking that the basic math of the tax liability on EVERY return.  I'm old, I've done returns on paper before (eons ago).  Not being able to depend on/trust even the certain basic functions is, well, disconcerting for such premium software.

(Hi, Bill 😉

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