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Please see these steps from 'How do I enter overtime pay in TurboTax Online' for finding and reporting your deductible overtime premium, by using your final paystub of the year:    Your overtime is listed on your pay stub   Use your year-end pay stub. It’s the last pay stub you receive for the year, and it shows your total earnings and taxes for the entire year. You should get this at the end of December or in early January.   If you didn't work at your job all year, you'll use the last pay stub you had from your employer, in the Wages & Income section of TurboTax:    Go to the W-2 screen under under Wages & Income.   Add or edit your W-2 for the employer where you worked overtime.   After entering your W-2, look for the Let's check for other situations screen.   Check the box next to Overtime.   Continue until you see the Let’s see if your overtime qualifies as tax-free screen. Select Help me calculate my eligible overtime.   Look for the What info do you have about your overtime screen.   Choose No to Did you get a statement or letter from your employer with your eligible overtime?   Choose Yes to Do you have a year-end pay stub that shows your total overtime for 2025?   TurboTax will ask you for your overtime that was paid at time-and-a-half and double time, and will calculate your deduction for you. If, however, you have a more complicated situation that includes getting paid at a rate other than time-and-a-half, or double-time, then you may need to ask your employer to provide you the premium number, or calculate it on your own.  If you are unable to use your final paystub to find your total overtime for the year, the above knowledge article has alternative instructions for deducting your overtime premium, using your own calculations, or statements from your employer's human resources.  Learn more about your eligibility for this deduction, here.  

Oregon e-file is NOT working as expected. I have no option to file my OR taxes only download them. Same for my local forms. Turbotax is currently broken for Oregon state filings as far as I can tell and it would be good to have some updates on the status of the bug fixes or at least some way to track it. It's unclear whether I need to find another way to file or if this is going to be resolved soon. Annoying since I've already been charged by Turbotax expecting to be able to file and it's been stuck for two weeks.

If you were able to claim them as a dependent it would be under the Qualifying Relative rules.  One of the rules states that the dependents gross income in 2025 must be less than $5,200.  So if their income is $6,000 you would not be able to claim them.

The filing requirement for dependents is shown below. If she does not meet the filing requirements then you are not required to file your daughter's tax return. It's important to know it it's required.   A person who is a dependent may still have to file a return. It depends on the person’s earned income, unearned income, and gross income.  Single dependents—Were you either age 65 or older or blind? No. You must file a return if any of the following apply. Your unearned income was more than $1,350. Your earned income was more than $15,750. Your gross income was more than the larger of: $1,350, or Your earned income (up to $15,300) plus $450.   NOTE: State returns have different filing requirements be sure to use the link below to find your state's filing requirement for dependents. Do I need to file a state return? @thomas_callahan 

The explanation does not seem to make sense. In my case, since the amount on my 1099-Q was less than the qualified education expenses I deleted the form. But, Turbo Tax continues to say that my Oregon Information Worksheet is NOT Completed, when it is. I am extremely dubious that this is an Oregon Problem. It seems to be a Turbo Tax Problem. We are at February 21. Why can't someone (other than a call center person) provide a clear and concise articulation of the problem and an accurate timeline to fix it?  HELLO TURBO TAX? ARE YOU LISTENING?

No one else can see your tax return or your transcript --- so we do not know what you are looking at.   If the IRS has reduced your refund, they will send you a letter to explain.   No one at TT will know anything about that.  TurboTax does not get any information from the IRS after you file your tax return.   It is possible that you are simply misunderstanding what you are seeing on your transcript.  What does it say on the IRS refund site?   You need your filing status, your Social Security number and the exact amount  (line 35a of your 2025 Form 1040) of your federal refund to track your Federal refund:    https://www.irs.gov/refunds  

No.  The IRS is known to reject win/loss statements because the statements invariably say that they're not guaranteed to be accurate and aren't to be used for tax purposes.   What you're supposed to do is keep a session log with the date/place/game and amount won/lost for each session.  At the end of the year, the total of your winning sessions is your wins (income), and the total of your losing sessions is your losses.   This is backed by case law (Sholenberger v. Commissioner), Revenue Procedure 77-29, CPA advice, and taxpayer experience come audit time.

To change your business At-Risk in TurboTax: 1. In the federal taxes, Wages & Income, Self-Employment Income, click Edit next to the specific business activity. 2. Look for the Uncommon Situations and click the pencil next to it. 3. On the Other business situations, click Continue. (Make sure you do not have the At Risk Carry forward indicated on this page). 4. You will indicate on the AT-risk limitations page the correct response.

I select "E-file" for the Federal return and "File by mail" for the Illinois return (I also tried to set "I will file later" for the IL return, but same result). After providing my phone number and IP PIN I get to a screen "Next, what type of state-issued ID do you have?" It only has two radio buttons: "Driver's License" and "State ID". When I try to not select anything and click continue, I get the red error on the radio buttons "Please make a choice".

You cannot change or add anything on the return that you just e-filed, nor can you stop it.  It is too late, just like when you put an envelope in a US mailbox on the corner.  The IRS does not allow you to take it back.   If you left out a W-2, a 1099G, or a dependent, or a 1099 etc…DO NOT change your return while it is “pending.”  The changes will go nowhere.   Now you have to wait until the IRS either rejects or accepts your return.  If your return is rejected, you will be able to go into your account and make the necessary changes to your tax return and re-submit your return.    Sometimes—not always— the IRS corrects your mistakes, while they are processing your return.    If the IRS accepts your return, however, then you have to wait longer until it has been fully processed and you have received your refund.  THEN you can prepare an amended tax return and e-file or mail  it in. You have to be able to work from that return exactly the way it was when it was e-filed originally.  You will need to use a form called a 1040X.     Meanwhile, DO NOT go in and start changing anything on your return in the system, or you will make a mess for yourself.  Sit tight and wait until you see what the IRS does with the return you just e-filed   The Form 1040X is scheduled to be available on February 26.   The date is subject to change, so check on 2-26  to see if it is ready.   Before that, do not change anything at all on your return.