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@Angelica2 Are you only asking about the W-4 given to employers?   How have you been filing your actual tax returns?   Have your tax returns ---Form 1040--- been filed as a married couple?   What filing status is shown on your 2024 Form 1040?   Did each of you file a tax return?  Or did you file one tax return for your combined income?

Did you e-file your state tax return and was it accepted? Only the IRS and your State control when and if a Federal or State tax refund is Approved and Issued.   You complete your tax return by finishing all 3 Steps in the File section. In Step 3, to e-file your tax return, you must click on the large button labeled "Transmit my returns now".   After completing the File section and e-filing your tax return you will receive two emails from TurboTax. The first email when your tax return was transmitted and the second email when the tax return has either been accepted or rejected.   Note - Once a tax return has been Accepted by the IRS or a State, TurboTax receives no further information concerning the tax return or the status of any tax refund.  Only the taxpayer listed on the tax return can obtain the status of a tax refund or a tax return.   To check the status of an e-filed return, open up your desktop product or log into your TurboTax Online Account. You can find your status within the TurboTax product. If accepted by the state use this TurboTax support FAQ to check the state tax refund status - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/track-state-refund/L3jgO8PGs_...

If you have statement A for code Z, you will enter code Z on the following screen and enter an amount - it doesn't matter what amount you enter here.   A couple of screens later you will get the 2nd screen in the image below.   On that screen, select the type and enter the details of your Stmt A.    The amount you enter for code z box 20 is ignored - only the amounts on the information about your 1099A income is reported.     @David L G   

If it is "pending" it is still waiting to be accepted or rejected.  A state return cannot be accepted until the federal return has been accepted.  There is usually a lag between acceptance of the federal and state returns.   When you e-file your federal return you will receive two emails from TurboTax.  The first one will say that your return was submitted.  The second email will tell you if your federal return was accepted or rejected.  If you e-filed a state return, there will be a third email to tell you if the state accepted or rejected your state return.  

Minnesota requires a CRP or an RPA in order to claim the credit.  You can go here to request an RPA - they won't send it to you unless you request it.   Until you have the form you can't get the renter's credit.  So you may want to file without the rent for the first apartment and then come back and amend the return to get the rest of the credit later.   @emilyvictoria567 

I would like to take a deeper look at this. However, I need a diagnostic file which is a copy of your tax return that has all of your personal information removed. You can send one to us by following the directions below:   TurboTax Online: Sign into your online account. Locate the Tax Tools on the left-hand side of the screen. A drop-down will appear. Select Tools On the pop-up screen, click on “Share my file with agent.” This will generate a message that a diagnostic file gets sanitized and transmitted to us. Please provide the Token Number that was generated in the response. 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 the Token Number (including the dash) that was generated in the response. *(If using a MAC, go to the menu at the top of the screen, select Help, then, “Send Tax File to Agent”)  @alexonski 

Going forward--- If you are a non-married couple who live together with your children, then only one of you can claim the child(ren) and the one not claiming the child does not enter anything at all on their tax return about the child.   The “sharing” of child-related credits you may have heard about is only possible between divorced or never married parents who live apart and share custody and who have a written agreement to share the credits.    The child’s SSN can only be entered on one tax return.   Any other return with the child’s SSN on it will be rejected.   If you are a family, then work out how to share the refund between yourselves.   And....if you decide to "each" claim one child-- as @Vanessa A Vanessa A pointed out, you cannot both use the Head of Household filing status.  Only one of you can say you paid over half of the costs of running the household.   So one of you files Single and claims a child, one files HOH and claims a child.  Or....one of you claims both children as explained above.  

To get back to that section, you have to go through the New York screens again. Then, once you get to the screen, Take a look at New York credit and taxes, you have to click Update next to Property Tax Relief or STAR credit and IT-119.   

@Angelica2   Let’s start over.   Sounds like you each were claiming Single at work on the W4 for withholding.   That’s ok.   How have you been filing your 1040 tax return each April?   Did you file a Married Joint return or each file as Married filing Separate or each file as Single?   I think you are asking about giving his work a new W4 to change his withholding?  

Reject Codes S2-F1040-428 and S2-F1040-429 occur when the IRS database indicates that the taxpayer or spouse received a First Time Homebuyer Credit in a previous year and did not include the repayment amount on this year's return.  If the first-time homebuyer credit was claimed by a taxpayer for a home that was purchased in 2008, repayment of the credit began with the 2010 tax return and continues for 15 years or when the house is sold, whichever is earlier. The amount that the IRS believes the taxpayer owes as installment payment can found at the IRS website for First Time Homebuyer Credit Lookup.