Wow. This is a very poor reply to a very real problem. I am facing the same problem as above. I can't believe TurboTax has allowed this to happen. The date is meaningless this year since the Capital gains limit of 250K has been revoked. TurboTax should allow us to override the error and submit anyway without dates being filled in. Anything less would make the program more difficult than manual entry on forms. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP!
BTW, except in Quebec, dates are formatted mm/dd/yyyy, except in TurboTax??? The problem above would have been alleviated if at least they were in the same format as the rest of North America so you could cut and paste from your T5008 Slip. But no! You now have to swap the DD and MM to fit the TurboTax format on every T5008 entry. There is no way to set the Date format as a preference...
Also, the type of income for T5008 entry should default to Capital Gain as opposed to leaving it blank which again forces one to access every form to set the type of income.
Simple fixes that would solve a world of problems.
