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It depends. If your income was received evenly throughout the tax year you can divide the total by 12 months, then multiply by the number of months you were a resident of Alabama (AL).   If the income wasn't evenly received, you can look at the accumulated amount for each type of income on the date your residency began or ended whichever applies to you.

Although the forms availability table indicates that Form 4562 is ready to e-file, the final update for depreciation calculations for Schedule E Rentals  has not been released yet. The updates for Schedule E Rentals should be available the software should be updated after 02/11/26, but our tech team is working hard to have those updates before that date.   Thank you for your patience.  

Schedule C is used for Self-Employed taxpayers.  The income is considered as income from a trade or business. Expenses can be claimed and the income is subject to Self-employment tax (FICA).   Schedule 1 is used to report "other income" such as for a hobby. No expenses can be claimed against this income and there is no Self-employment tax.    The TurboTax program asks a set of questions in order to determine if the income is from Self-Employment or not.  One of the question asks "what years" this person received this type of income. If you answer multiple years, the program will ASSUME it is self-employment and use Schedule C.    Volunteer Firefighter income is not normally thought of as Self-Employment income. In order to "trick" the program into entering the income on Schedule 1, you would need to select only the tax year as the only year it was received, as well as "not like work".  These are TurboTax questions, not IRS questions.  Altering the answer to get the program to report the income properly is not lying to the IRS.    Reporting it on Schedule C is not correct unless the person that is acting as a volunteer firefighter is performing that service with an intent to profit from it. In fact, reporting a loss from the volunteer firefighter service could cause an issue with the IRS, since the IRS only permits a loss from a endeavor that intends to make a profit (and be taxed on that profit) "someday".  

This is the first year where my W-2 with Box 11 Non-Qualified Plans data was NOT transferred to 1040 Line 1a. I've had non-qualified plans data in Box 11 for years, and it always transferred to 1040 Line 1a. Threw me for a loop when I saw the W-2 data was missing from the 1040. Why is this change even necessary?

@nfaustino If you paid a penalty for an excess Roth contribution and did not remove the over-contribution from your account, you will be required to pay a penalty on the over-contribution for every year those funds remain in the account.  If this is the case for you, this would explain why the Form 5329 is appearing on your return again this year.

TurboTax will choose either the Deduction or Credit for your New Jersey Property Tax, whichever is more beneficial, taking into consideration other factors in your NJ return.  For example, if you have a credit for taxes paid to another state, this reduces the deduction you can take.   Here's detailed info on the NJ Property Tax Credit from the State of New Jersey, and also a TurboTax response to your question to help you.   @paris-taylor615     

Shows my 2025 HSA amount but for 2025 shows "Available Now" - should this read "Shows my 2024 amount" or "but for 2024 shows 'Available Now' "?   Also some lines remain Available Now are updating with values. - what does this mean? Are these lines remaining Available Now or are updating with values?   Thank you for the detail on your hardware/software.   I can't get my test cases to reproduce your situation, so could you do us a favor and send us a sanitized copy of your return so that we can see what you are seeing? By "sanitized", I mean that the process of creating this copy will redact all personally identifying information.   TurboTax Desktop/Download Versions: Open your return. Click the Online tab in the black bar across the top of TurboTax and select “Send Tax File to Agent” * This will generate a message that a diagnostic copy will be created. Click on OK and the tax file will be sanitized and transmitted to us. Please provide us the Token Number (including the dash) that was generated in the response.

Make sure you have entered your child as a dependent in My Info, and that you have entered the child's Social Security number.    Careful— do not say that your child’s SSN is not valid for employment.  If your child was born in 2025 make sure you said he lived with you the whole year.  There is an oddly worded question that asks if the child paid over half their own support.  Say NO to that question.

Following the steps to enter Unreimbursed Partner Expenses for a partnership K-1, on the page "Miscellaneous Supplemental Expenses," the hyperlink provided by the On Demand Tax Guidance under "How do I enter Home Office Expenses for my Partnership?" correctly redirects to IRS Pub 587 Business Use of Your Home. Although the IRS document shows tax year 2024, this is the current version available from the IRS, found on this page About Publication 587.

At the Canadian Pension question, click the trash can icon and delete the form. Don't click Continue, because it'll create a new Canada RRP Worksheet. Click the trash can and go right back to Federal Review. Let us know in the comments if that doesn't resolve the issue. 

I did want to tell you that this morning on February 10th I decided to make 1 final attempt at e-file on AR returns. I did it at 9:03 AM and at 10:54 AM they were accepted by the state of Arkansas. So, something happened between yesterday and today. We shall see. I just wanted to tell you just in case you wanted to make another attempt. Hope this helps.