On the final federal check, TurboTax tells me that "Sch E worksheet link must be established. Royalty income and expense is reported on Sch E..." I don't have any royalty income or expense, so I enter 0. But the same question keeps popping up over and over. Why?
Royalty income would be reported on a separate schedule E. You may have one being pulled over from the previous year, or you may have royalty income reported on a K-1 form, that then needs a schedule E.
I suggest you look for the schedule E in your list of forms and schedules in your program and delete it. If it comes from a K-1 entry, after you delete it, it will just re-populate itself. In that case, you need to go back through the K-1 entries to find the royalty income (box 7 on partnership K-1) and make sure you answered the questions correctly on the K-1 entry.
You can delete a form in TurboTax as follows:
1. Find the Tax Tools option on your left menu bar and click on it
2. Click on Tools
3. Find Delete a Form and click on it
4. Look for the Sch E in the list of forms and click on the option to delete it
Just make sure you don't delete the wrong schedule E, if you have more than one of them!