T4A and RRSP due to the transfer of a RRSP after the death of my spouse.

[kdube27]

I am entering a T4A and RRSP due to the transfer of a RRSP after the death of my spouse. The slips are supposed to cancel each other but are not when I enter them. It is a transfer under 60(L) of the Income Tax Act. When I enter the slips it is deducting from my RRSP limit which it shouldn't, as well as giving me a tax break for the contribution, which it shouldn't. I have clicked the transfer box, too, and it doesn't seem to be making any difference. How do you enter it so these slips cancel each other out?

[TurboTaxSusan]

We're sorry to hear about the passing of your spouse. 

Are you using TurboTax Desktop or TurboTax Online? Did you also get a T4RIF?

[kdube27]

Turbo Tax online.

And no, there would be no TRIF as this is not a matured RRSP, and he was only 51. 

There is the T4A and RRSP slips. Both for the exact same amount, as it is a transfer to me, the spouse, and the two slips should cancel each other out when entered. 

[TurboTaxSusan]

On the T4A and T4RSP, some of the boxes also have drop downs under them that ask if the amounts were "received due to death of spouse?". Please make sure that you have selected Yes if your amount is in one of those boxes.

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