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Also… before your answer, I input the first of those 11 businesses, which generated a Form 8995. Now I deleted that form, but TT still wants to know about it in "We need to know about your 199A income." How can I get rid of that?

You can try entering as other income.   Log into your account Select Wages and income Less Common income Miscellaneous Income, 1099-A, 1099>start Scroll to the bottom of the page to Other Reportable Income Other taxable income, answer yes Then give a brief description of the income and the amount listed. call it NR4 Code 11 Trust Income." and the amount.

Or just use the generic 999999.   A better question is: does a university student doing a paid research project have to report their income as self employment.   The usual answer is  no, depending on the details.    If this was essentially a stipend, enter at Educational Expenses and Scholarships, under Deductions and credits (not the income section). After answering no to having a 1098-T*, answer yes to qualifying for an exception (that gets you to the entry screens). You will have to go thru the whole education interview to get to the scholarship screen. At the scholarship screen, enter the amount of the grant. When asked if any was used for room and board, answer yes. Then enter the amount you want to be taxable (usually all of it), in the pop up box. R&B are not "qualified educational  expenses".  So, this is how you tell TT that it is taxable. Note the wording at that screen “or other expenses”. You didn’t have to literally use the scholarship for R&B.  This will put it on line 8r of Schedule 1 (this line was added in 2022).   *If you do have a 1098-T, one of the follow-up questions will be do you have any scholarships not shown on the 1098-T. Enter the additional scholarship/stipend there.     Scholarships are a hybrid between earned and unearned income. It is earned income for purposes of the $14,600 filing requirement (2024) and the dependent standard deduction calculation (earned income + $450).  It is not earned income for the kiddie tax and other purposes (e.g. EIC).  For grad students and post grad fellows, scholarship, stipend and fellowship income is earned income ("compensation") for IRA contributions. Taxable scholarship goes on line 8r of Schedule 1, from which TT treats it as hybrid income.

I am going to go with delet 1099 and manually enter it. If nothing else, it might show me where the error first enters. Thank you so much for your help. If I get a clear resolution, do you want to know?

If you would like us to troubleshoot this issue, you can send us a “diagnostic” file that has your “numbers” but not your personal information. If you would like to do this, here are the instructions for TurboTax Desktop users:   From the black bar at the top of your screen, select Online Click Send Tax File to Agent Click Send on the message that pops up TurboTax will create a "sanitized" copy of your return information with no personal info Post the 7-digit token number here in this thread   Here are the instructions for TurboTax Online users:    Go to the black panel on the left side of your program and select Tax Tools.  Then select Tools below Tax Tools.  A window will pop up which says Tools Center.   On this screen, select Share my file with Agent.  You will see a message explaining what the diagnostic copy is. Click okay through this screen and then you will get a Token number.  Reply to this thread with your Token number. This will allow us to open a copy of your return without seeing any personal information.     We will then be able to review your file to see what you are seeing, and we can determine what is going on in your return and provide you with a suggested resolution.   We at Intuit TurboTax want our users to be completely delighted with their experience using our products and services, and successful in their financial lives and businesses.    Once you file your return, as long as the settings to receive communication from Intuit don’t block it, you will see a pop-up message or receive an email with a survey asking you about your experience. We encourage you to leave your notes and comments there. “Voice of the Customer” notes and comments are read and acted upon.   If you are using TurboTax Desktop, you can also leave feedback at the Final Steps tab:   @rckksherm 

If you paid your children to work in your business, then your business would be reporting an expense for it. Your children will be reporting that as income on their return.   Did your business issue your children a 1099-NEC (if contractor) or Form W-2 (if employee)? If yes, then you can take that as a deduction on your business return as salaries and wages and your children will input the 1099 or Form W-2 in their respective returns to show that income.   To report salaries and wages on your Schedule C, please follow the steps below: Click on Tax Home from Left Side Menu. Click on Income & Expenses from main menu. Scroll down till you see the section titled Self-Employment. Click on Start next to it. If you have already entered your business information, then click on Review/Update.  Enter the expense under 'Contract Labor' if a 1099 was issued, or 'Wages & Salaries' if a W-2 was.   If you paid them over $600, you will need to issue them a 1099-NEC, if you don't want to consider them employees, although there can be advantages to that.   Here's more discussion on Hiring your Children as Employees and Form 1099-NEC.   @bujbuj 

fanfare:  IRS did not send a bill.  They sent the remainder of my refund (reduced by 25% because of the stated Social Security calculation error.)  The link included in the online explanation indicates a worksheet to be used to calculate taxable SS 'unless you contributed to a traditional ira and are included in a retirement plan at work'.  this is from pub 915.    Perhaps the traditional IRA is what caused IRS to recalculate taxable portion (assuming this is the issue), however this doesn't explain why TT didn't use the correct form to begin with.     I tried going into my already filed 1040 and removed the Traditional IRA contribution.  My refund immediately dropped by about 50%.  TT already considered it non-deductible, and excess, so why this happened makes no sense to me.      This is really confusing.  Will I have to try redoing the taxable SS form, see if it is different than the one TT filed and amend it?  Or do I just let IRS know that Traditional IRA was never sent in, and the forms 5329 and 8606 are removed, then let them redo the SS form, refund the 6% penalty tax,  and recalculate refund?

Since Box 5 and 6 were left blank, while inputting this 1099-NEC into TurboTax, you'll need to leave Boxes 5-7 all blank.  This income will be taxable to North Carolina, and since that is your home state, it will automatically be taxed there.

You might need to uninstall the current year version of TurboTax. Then download the software and install it again. When you open the program the first time, be sure to allow all updates. This process should allow your transfer from last year to be successful.   Your other option may be to upload your prior year return to TurboTax Online. You can start a return for free. Then you can access your current year TurboTax Online return using your desktop installation to finish and e-file. See How do I transfer last year's return into TurboTax Online?

If your federal was efiled and accepted you can try to efile state now.  Click on Add a State to let you back into your retun.   How to file state after federal https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/e-file/help/how-do-i-e-file-my-state-after-i-already-filed-my-federal/00/26811