# T2 Capital Loss Carryback **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [March 19, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/t2-capital-loss-carryback/2316 "2019-03-19T23:00:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kevin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2acd7d/32.png) [@kevin](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/kevin)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/t2-capital-loss-carryback/2316/1 "2019-03-19T23:00:27Z")
When I enter the amount of a current year capital loss on line 951, 952, or 953 to carry the loss back, I get a yellow warning “Total capital loss amounts carried back cannot exceed [amount available]”. I have entered the amount of the current year loss. If I enter $1 less than the current year loss the warning goes away. I think maybe the test needs to be if the total of the losses carried back is greater than amount H, not greater than or equal to amount H. ---
**Author:** ![Steven](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/www.protaxcommunity.com/steven/32/790_2.png) [@Steven](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/Steven)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/t2-capital-loss-carryback/2316/2 "2019-03-20T02:38:39Z")
@Kevin The condition for that message is checking to see if the total amount on lines 951, 952 and 953 \> line 210. I have a hunch that there may be some underlying decimals that might be causing this behaviour. Can you try something for me? On line 210 of S4, I suspect there is decimal in the background. Can you try manually re-typing in the amount on line 210 in S4 and see if the review message disappears? By manually re-typing in an amount as an override, this ensures that there is no decimal. If you send me the file, I can take a look and fix this easily. Steven ---
**Author:** ![kevin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2acd7d/32.png) [@kevin](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/kevin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/t2-capital-loss-carryback/2316/3 "2019-03-20T11:39:25Z")
Hi Steven. Yes, manually overriding line 210 on S4 makes the error message go away (but pops up another message). I’ve seen this in a couple other T2’s that I’ve prepared in the last few months so it’s not just this file. I guess the program needs to round the line 210 number to zero decimal places? ---
**Author:** ![Steven](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/www.protaxcommunity.com/steven/32/790_2.png) [@Steven](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/Steven)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/t2-capital-loss-carryback/2316/4 "2019-03-20T13:43:33Z")
@kevin Likely, it is not the calc for line 210 but related to another calc.In our calc coding, if rounding was omitted by mistake, decimals can carry over to a bunch of fields. I fixed one recently in S6 where we multiply an amount by a % without rounding. ---
**Author:** ![kevin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2acd7d/32.png) [@kevin](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/kevin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/t2-capital-loss-carryback/2316/5 "2019-03-20T15:28:25Z")
Thanks Steven. ---
**Author:** ![SmallBizGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@SmallBizGuy](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/SmallBizGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/t2-capital-loss-carryback/2316/6 "2019-03-20T22:44:34Z")
Ha ha…the old “the individual amounts don’t actually add to the column total visually”. How often (too many times!!) have I seen this on F/S… (Would be kind of fun if Excel had an “autoround” function. Just enable it for sheet or book and the results of all calculations would automatically round to x digits, as specified.)