To enter legal fees in an employment discrimination case in TurboTax Online:
- Select Tax Home in the left pane
- On the Hi, let's keep working on your taxes! screen, select the dropdown to the right of Wages & Income
- Select Start, Continue, or Pick up where you left off
- Scroll down and select the dropdown to the right of Less Common Income
- Select Start or Revisit to the right of Miscellaneous Income, 1099-A, 1099-C
- Scroll down and select Start or Revisit to the right of Other reportable income
- On the Any Other Taxable Income? page, select Yes
- On the Other Taxable Income page, enter the description Qualifying Legal Fees and enter your fees as a negative amount (i.e., -5000). Then, select Continue
To see your form entry in TurboTax Online:
- Select Tax Tools in the left pane
- Select Tools
- Select View Tax Summary
- Select Preview my 1040 in the left pane
You'll see your negative entry on line 8 of Form 1040, generated from line 24h of Schedule 1.
If the TurboTax Online navigation described above doesn't look like what you're seeing, see the TurboTax Help article Why does the TurboTax navigation menu look different for me?.
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