You might need to contact H&R Block. Are you getting a specific error message? I didn't use H&R Block this year so I'm not sure if anything changed, and I was contributing less than the max prior years, so I never saw the issue you are reporting. I assumed H&R Block would let you put whatever number you want into that box, and that it was on your to calculate your maximum contribution taking into account the employee and employer portions. I use Fidelity's worksheet to make this calculation www.fidelity.com/bin-public/060_www_fidelity_com/documents/customer-service/401k-self-employed-owner-only-business.pdf As a reminder this is not financial advice.

Honestly I haven't used this workflow since making this video. It was a proof of concept to potentially solve a problem faced by my team, but this was a bit clunky and they found other workarounds. Asana has made a lot of improvements to subtasks since this video was recorded. Is there anything in particular you are interested in?

That's a great point, thanks for sharing! I know with other Traditional IRA and Roth IRA contributions, you are still expected to enter your contribution/rollover information even if it isn't a taxable event or a tax deduction (due to income, etc), so it would make sense you should still report Roth Solo 401k contributions in some way. Maybe I'll just hire an accountant next year, hah

So glad this helped! Yeah, the extra fee can be a pain, but at least you can write that fee off next year. I did write off some larger business expenses this year and they made it pretty easy to claim the full cost vs amortization. A real accountant can be much more expensive, though I might consider that route next year to make my life easier.

I believe you need the highest tier "self-employed" in order to add Schedule C small business income, and the Solo401k contribution is part of the same module in HR Block. Hope that helps.

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You are so welcome!

I'm so glad this was helpful, and thank you for letting me know!

i'm pretty sure this is wrong and you are supposed to put in what you contributed as the employer

@@Jessica-ol1kc My goal with this video is to show how to use H&R Block to enter a value in line 16 on the 2021 Schedule 1 tax form. If it's appropriate for you to enter a value in line 16, then use the "retirement account contribution" item in HR Block. I'll leave it to tax professionals to determine the correct values to enter in the correct boxes.

Unfortunately I no longer have access to that device and I never tested I2C while I had it. You can download the drivers and build an I2C script to see how the code functions and if you can build enough commands into your script, but you wouldn't be able to run the script without the device. I'd be curious to see what the I2C signals look like if you end up getting one!