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Go to this website, on page 8 - https://www.tax.virginia.gov/sites/default/files/vatax-pdf/2024-760-instructions.pdf   Virginia Driver’s License Information Enter your Virginia Driver’s License Identification number and Issue Date. If you do not have a Virginia driver’s license, but have a Virginia ID Card, enter the identification number and issue date from the ID Card. If filing a joint return, enter the information for both spouses. Providing this information is optional. It is requested for taxpayer identification purposes as part of ongoing efforts to combat identity theft and fraud.

If you have even $400 of self-employment income you will need to pay self-employment tax for Social Security and Medicare. https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/self-employed/help/how-do-i-report-income-from-self-employment/00/26653   https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/self-employed/help/what-is-the-self-employment-tax/00/25922   https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/calculators/self-employed/  

This 'error' is generated when the Form 1116 is not required to be included as part of your return in order to claim the foreign tax credit.     For example, if your only foreign income is from dividends reported on Form 1099-DIV and the foreign tax paid was also reported on the Form 1099-DIV.  In this case, the foreign tax credit can be claimed without filing the actual Form 1116.   If you are using a desktop version of TurboTax and you look at the Form 1116 in Forms Mode, you can see that next to the error condition being flagged for line 35, there is a note that says DO NOT FILE FORM (SEE HELP).  The help message is as follows:   Text field for Line 35:   If there is a description to the left of the amount on line 35 indicating that this form should not be filed, the information you have entered on your return indicates that you are eligible to claim the foreign tax credit WITHOUT attaching Form 1116 to the return. See Rules for Form 1116 and how the program determines whether or not Form 1116 needs to be attached to the return for more information. If the program determines that you are qualified to claim the credit without completing Form 1116, the full amount of current year foreign taxes will flow to Schedule 3, line 48 (limited to the amount of tax remaining). If you want (or NEED) to complete and file Form 1116 anyway, check the box in the Other Information for Your Tax Return section of the federal Information Worksheet. You will then need to complete Form 1116. Note: If you are not required to file Form 1116 but have previously linked your Form 1099-INT and/or 1099-DIV to the Form 1116, you should disregard any calculations on Form 1116 except for the entry on line 35. This is the correct amount of foreign tax you may claim and which will be entered on Form 1040.   If you do not need to or want to include Form 1116 as part of your return, go to the foreign tax section of your return and check the box that you have entered all of your foreign taxes paid by including the information on 1099-DIV, 1099-INT, 1099-OID, or schedule K-1.  Then follow the remaining questions to complete the foreign tax credit.   @tranalli  @claude39 

I did that based on previous guidance before I submitted my question.  As I stated in my initial question, Turbotax Desktop is not dividing joint brokerage account Capital Gains/Losses imported from a 1099-B equally between the filers for a Married Filing Separately return; Schedule D is attributing the total Capital Gains/Losses reported to only one person (as if it was a joint return).  Turbotax does not prompt for a Nominee Adjustment for Capital Gains/Losses the way that it does for interest and dividends.  What do I have to do to show the correct 50-50 value for capital gains for the state returns?

real estate losses are subject to the passive activity rules. generally, PAL losses are only deductible against PAL income.  Two exceptions a real estate professional is not subject to these PAL rules second if not a REP, then if you actively participate your loss would be deductible but only if your modified adjusted gross income is unner $150.,00 (1/2 this if MFS) see form 8582

you have a deductible loss. The question that we can't answer is whether it's an ordinary loss or capital loss.   Code Sec. 165(a) allows a deduction for losses sustained during the tax year and not compensated for by insurance or otherwise. A loss deduction is permitted only for a tax year in which the loss is sustained, as evidenced by closed and completed transactions, and as fixed by identifiable events occurring in that year. [Reg. §1.165-1(d)(1).] A loss deduction is typically ordinary in nature, but a loss from the sale or exchange of a capital asset is a capital loss. [Code Sec. 165(f).] Rev. Rul. 93-80, 1993-2 CB 239, provides that a loss incurred on the abandonment or worthlessness of a partnership interest is an ordinary loss if sale or exchange treatment does not apply. If there is an actual or deemed distribution to the partner, or if the transaction is otherwise in substance a sale or exchange, the partner’s loss is capital (except as provided in Code Sec. 751(b)).

@Jiawei32  So you want to recharacterize $7000 from a Roth IRA (currently at Robinhood) to a traditional IRA (also at Robinhood?)  And Robin can't provide the NIA since since the contribution was made when you were at another institution.   It looks like the worksheet would be: Line 1 $7000 Line 2 $15,000 Line 3 $26,000 Line 4 $11,000 Line 5 0.423 Line 6 $2961 Line 7 $9961   This calculation probably overstates the actual earnings attributed to the contribution from 2024, due to the inclusion of the $7000 from 2025, but it is the calculation you are required to use. (The instructions for line 3 say to include any other contributions made while the contribution to be recharcterized was in the account.)   @dmertz  any additional comments?