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You should receive a Form 1099-INT reporting the interest. It should list the tax-exempt interest in box 8. You enter that in the federal section of TurboTax, then Wages and Income , then Interest and Dividends, then Interest on Form 1099-INT. After you enter the interest in TurboTax, you will come to a screen where you assign the income to a state or states. If you don't assign any of it to Kansas, it will not be taxable there.  

@user17733334383 wrote:  The product itself should state this change.   ItsDeductible has always been a product separate and apart from TurboTax itself. In fact, you didn't have to be a TurboTax user to have an Intuit account and use ItsDeductible (it was available to anyone free of charge).

Box (1) Wages are often less than box (7) Social Security wages.  This can happen if you have a 401-K or other deductible entity in your return. It has nothing to do with overtime. Overtime for the 2025 tax year is posted to box 14 of the W-2.

Unfortunately, I did not know that ItsDeductible was no longer included in the software until AFTER I purchased it for 2025.  Here I am in the middle of my taxes and get this screen to insert a dollar amount for a donation total to the Goodwill.  There is a single field to search for a recommended value of each item, but you would literally have to search and use the back button for every single item. There is no way to maintain a list, so if I donate 50 items to the Goodwill on a given day, I have to search every one, write down the value, and calculate the total myself.  This is insanity.  I cannot believe TurboTax actually designed it this way and the developers, analysts, testing team, and leadership all agreed that this was acceptable to send out to millions of users.  ItsDeductible was the absolute best function TurboTax had above all competitors.  I used to sing its praises, but I have no reason to stay with TurboTax any longer.  I'm extremely disappointed that TurboTax was NOT TRANSPARENT with longtime users that this function had been removed.  The product itself should state this change.  The corporate office should have also sent out a notice to longtime users.  There was no communication whatsoever.   This is egregious in my mind and borderline fraudulent.

  If you are sure that you have satisfied all RMD requirements, then in TurboTax, on your form 1099-R for RMD withdrawals, answer that The entire distribution was an RMD then on the following page, to the question What is the RMD for your account? enter the amount of the distribution from that IRA account. No need to enter anything for the second IRA.   By doing this, you are telling TurboTax that all RMDs are satisfied and TurboTax will not calculate any penalty. The information you entered in TurboTax is to enable TurboTax to calculate any penalty where applicable, and is not reported to the IRS.

Yes, Pennsylvania does allow you to deduct the money you spent on gambling at casinos and sweepstakes up to the amount of your winnings. You can learn more here, from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania website.

@kargelz    Edit that 1099-DIV again   When you get to the page where you divide up the state amounts: 1) Re-select the first button.....and set that state to "Multiple States"   (do not set to MA) 2) Then select the second button.  The numbers should remain from how you divided it earlier. But edit them if needed 3) Then you need to hit the Continue to move on.   The numbers should now be OK on the MA Sched B.   Please reply if this worked for you.....or not. And...when you initially re-selected that first button...what state setting was in it? _____________________  

The foreign tax credit is a non-refundable credit. A non-refundable tax credit is a tax break that can reduce the amount you owe to $0, but it cannot trigger an additional credit for any "leftover" amount.   So if you haven't entered any other information and since only $239 remained after the standard deduction, only $239 could be claimed as a Foreign Tax Credit to "zero out" your tax liability up to this point.    This may all change once you complete your tax return.

You can get the deduction.  Read the instructions that you were given that are here.  After you enter the 1099 that has your Uber driver income on it and you go to enter expenses you will be able to tell the system what part of the income reported on your 1099 is tip income.  The system will deduct it for you.  It's all good.

I also purchased Premier over Deluxe SOLELY for 1099-B uploads and am equally as frustrated that it won't download from ML.  I've tried the VPN change.  Now to figure out how to change browsers...  (since it autoloads).  I get all the way through security process and it starts the communication between TT and ML back and forth then times out with an error message that states "Something unexpected happened and we can't connect to Merrill. Try again in a few hours. (590)"  I've tried multiple times over 16 hours.  This needs better support from TurboTax.  If this isn't fixed or supported better I'm going elsewhere next time around.

Misc. income from Form 1099-MISC, box 3 is reported on Schedule 1, line 8 (other income), and transferred to line 8 of your 1040.   For more information on Form 1040-MISC, refer to the TurboTax article 1099-MISC Instructions and How to Read the Tax Form.

YES.   The answers below that said "No" are absolutely incorrect.   Form 1099-C treats your discharged debt as "Income", and taxable income at that. Because the discharge of debt is now taxable income, you absolutely may deduct attorney's fees or fees paid to a debt cancellation firm as legitimate expenses in obtaining or securing this income.

Is there any update on when this feature will be avaialbe for TurboTax Premier Desktop version. I have been waiting since the early Feburary and it keep saying the patch will be release soon. When is soon? 

As you go through the state program, it should ask if you paid rent. Select no. If you did, and still have an issue, you need to delete the form. The form will reappear if it has information it feels is needed. A full or corrupted cache can cause problems in TurboTax, sometimes you need to clear your cache (that is, remove these temporary files). Online version: Delete the form/ worksheet/ anything that should not be there- if possible, see How to Delete   Log out of your return and try one or more of the following: Don't use Internet Explorer. Clear cache and cookies, Sign in using a different browser. Sign in using a different device. Log back into your return. Desktop version:  Delete the form , wks, and anything related  Save your return while closing the program. Update the program Open