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Deductions & credits
@ThomasM125 wrote:You may be able to use the deduction.
You have to know what the deduction is to know where to put it on the schedule A. You mention that it may be mortgage interest. If so, you would look for that deduction in the Deduction and Credits section in TurboTax. It is in the Your Home section, and then Mortgage Interest, Refinancing, and Insurance. So, you would enter the deduction by working through that section.
If the deduction was for something else, you would look for that category in the Deductions and Credits section and enter it in the appropriate sub-section.
It is indeed for the interest paid on the mortgage, so does that mean it belongs in my Schedule A under line 8b (for Home mortgage interest not reported to you on Form 1098). It gets confusing trying to fill out the mortgage deduction questions because they are phrased under the assumption that the house is mine, but I'm just trying to get the deduction that's I assumed passed to the beneficiary because it was in my K-1