Thank you for your guidance! The problem is that I screwed up when I started filling out the Turbo Tax Fed. Return. It asked for my profession, and I put down "teacher", which is true, but I am not a public school teacher. It then asked if I had any other professions, and I put down "writer" because I have written several trade books. Then it asked if I had any other professions, and I put down "actor" because I was an actor for 30 years and still receive residuals from TV shows and movies. Then, when TT started asking for itemized expenses, it wanted to allocate expenses to one of three "professions". I knew I was in trouble, so I went back and studied my 2016 return, which was prepared by an accountant in Florida who passed away last September. I saw that he put down my Business Code as #711510, which encompasses everything that I do under one heading. Clearly, that is what I should have put on the TT form. So...I went back to the in-progress form and tried to "reset" my profession to eliminate the three separate professions and replace that with #711510. The form seemed to accept the change, but when I got to Itemized Expenses, TT once again started with "Which profession?" Sigh... In other words, I am having trouble getting the in-progress Turbo Tax Federal Return to totally reset. Do you think I should simply start all over again, with a brand new form? Thanks again for the help. I am beside myself.
