Sorry, Dave. Just getting back to your message. We were granted an even longer extension in Texas, and I took advantage of that.
Update on my issue...
I went through our self-employment income (Took some time. My wife had four different businesses running this year), and couldn't find anything that matched your description. No jobs that we ceased working in 2020.
With that said, when I returned to my federal review section, this time it offered a little more info than before. I guess Turbotax updated their program? This time TurboTax pointed me to a missing "Misc Exp" entry (or what it thought was a missing entry). I simply deleted this Misc Exp section and the program then advanced me to a second issue -- the dreaded "Sch SE-S: Max deferral line 18 must be entered." After wading through the many, many community messages on this specific issue, I finally found KathrynG3's great solution. Do nothing. And that seemed to work for me. I just left the line blank. Didn't impact a Turbotax self-audit. Didn't impact my return. So, I was finally able to file!
Thank you for the help! Just wanted you to know how this was eventually resolved.
