How do I remove a deduction turbo tax added but I do not qualify for?

[trspafford]

TurboTax is adding the Qualified Business Income Deduction of $5,700, but I do not qualify for this. Why is it doing this? How do I fix it?

[trspafford]

Update: I learned the $5700 deduction was actually the new senior citizen deduction. TurboTax was just labeling it incorrectly. I reported this to the software team, hopefully they’ll be able to address it so no one else runs into this confusing problem in the future. 

[ThomasM125]

The qualified business income (QBI) deduction is associated with business income reported on your return. It typically comes from a K-1 Schedule entry, self-employment income or rental income. You must have entered business income on your return so you need to find where it was entered and update that entry to remove the QBI income if is doesn't apply to you.

In the case of self-employment and rental income, after you enter your business or rental income and expenses, TurboTax will ask you if the business qualifies for QBI treatment. If it does not, you would have to change your entry in that section of the program. In the case of a partnership K-1 schedule, you will see the QBI questions in the box 20, code Z entry and then section 199A. 

For an S corporation, you will see the questions on that K-1 schedule in box 17, code V, sect 199A. In the case of the K-1 schedules, it would be unwise to change the QBI status reported there, as that would have been made at the entity level.

[trspafford]

Thank you for that tax advice, but in fact I did not enter any such self-employment, business, or rental income. There is no K-1 schedule on my return.

I believe it to be just a labeling error in the software. It displayed the correct dollar amount, but labeled it as “Qualified Business Income Deduction” instead of “Senior Citizen Deduction”.

As stated above, I reported this to the customer service team, and hopefully they will be able to fix it. 

[VolvoGirl · Accepted solution]

Yes a couple people have reported that.  I think they are looking into it.  

The 1/23/26 post on this thread has a screenshot showing the Senior Deduction under QBI, in Basic vs Deluxe editions. That might just be a display screen issue. Check your actual Schedule 1-A and 1040 line 13b.
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/2025-senior-deduction-under-the-obbb/01/3716229

[trspafford]

Thanks VolvoGirl 🙂