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If you're referring to the email verification code some users need when efiling, see this:   Log in if not already logged in, and low down in the left menu column choose Intuit Account. In your Account settings, go to Sign In & Security. Check the email address there, and update if necessary. If it has an adjacent tag that says "unverified" or "not verified", there may be a link to verify it there. If so, it will then send a verification email. Once you do all that, I'd log out of TurboTax, close the browser and reopen it. Then log in and try your filing again.   It may or may not ask you again when efiling for an email verification code, but it at least it will be using your correct email address. FAQ: What if I'm having trouble with my filing verification code? https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/security/help/what-if-i-m-having-trouble-with-my-filing-verificati...

Yes. In Nevada, you can deduct the Motor Vehicle Tax portion of what you paid to register your vehicles, which consists of the parts of your Vehicle Registration Fee labeled:    Governmental Services Tax and Supplemental Governmental Services Tax   See this help article listing what is allowed for each state.  

I have an update. It appears to be a slightly more complex bug than TurboTax's M1M Line 1 doubling its KF Line 1 values: TurboTax's Minnesota (MN) M1M Line 1 since 2023 has apparently been WRONGLY SUMMING 1040 Line 2a (Total Federal Tax-Exempt Interest) WITH MN KF Line 1 (MN-Taxable Other-State Federal Tax-Exempt Interest) to give a FALSELY HIGH M1M Line 1 Minnesota income addition, instead of RIGHTLY SUMMING MN KF Line 1 WITH Other States' K-1 Box 14A (Federal Tax-Exempt Interest) to give the TRUE M1M Line 1 MN income addition, which would be an M1M Line 1 value = to the 1040 Line 2a value MINUS only MN-tax-exempt federal tax-exempt interest). Consequently, upon TurboTax MN State M1 & M1M E-filing, the submitted M1M Line 1 total (which if calculated correctly represents everything in 1040 Line 2a's Federal Tax-Exempt Interest EXCEPT its small values for MN in-state Tax-Exempt Interest) is then automatically "error checked" by the MN Dept of Revenue to ensure that "M1M Line 1 ≤ 1040 Line 2a" -- and thus the e-filed TurboTax MN tax return is rejected, because it's rightly flagged as showing "M1M line 1 > 1040 Line 2a" for having twice-submitted (thereby doubling MN state income taxes on) any MN KF Line 1 value entered.

It's not unusual for state returns to remain in pending status several days after a federal return has been accepted. It's common for this to happen as we approach tax day.   Please see the TurboTax article Why is my state e-file still pending?   @yolandaperez26 

The payer's TIN or EIN number is nine numbers.  it's located under the payer's name and address in a box that is titled Payer's TIN.   For more information, refer to the IRS articles Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TIN) Employer identification number (EIN).   If you were paid in cash as an independent contractor ( or self-employed), your income is considered self-employment income and will be reported on a Schedule C.  You will have to pay self-employment taxes on your net income. You are allowed to deduct any expenses that you may have incurred in your babysitting gig.    Refer to the TurboTax article How do I report income from self-employment? for instructions on how to enter your income.   For additional information, please review the TurboTax Help article Reporting Self-Employment Business Income and Deductions

Your electronic return was rejected because IRS records show that APTC was paid to your Marketplace health insurance company on behalf of you or another member of your family, Verify Your Health Insurance: Double-check if anyone in your household had Marketplace coverage. Sometimes, even brief coverage can trigger this requirement. Check for Form 1095-A: Log into your Marketplace account to see if there's a Form 1095-A available for you Correct Your Return: If you find a 1095-A, use it to complete Form 8962 and refile your return. See step-by-step instructions here, If you believe Form 8962 is not required: Contact your Marketplace to confirm that APTC was not paid for you or any family member. You can find contact information on the Marketplace contact page Include a PDF attachment titled "ACA Explanation" with your return, explaining why you believe Form 8962 is not required.

It appears to be a slightly more complex bug than that: TurboTax's Minnesota (MN) M1M Line 1 since 2023 has apparently been WRONGLY SUMMING 1040 Line 2a (Total Federal Tax-Exempt Interest) WITH MN KF Line 1 (MN-Taxable Other-State Federal Tax-Exempt Interest) to give a FALSELY HIGH M1M Line 1 Minnesota income addition, instead of RIGHTLY SUMMING MN KF Line 1 WITH Other States' K-1 Box 14A (Federal Tax-Exempt Interest) to give the TRUE M1M Line 1 MN income addition, which would be an M1M Line 1 value = to the 1040 Line 2a value MINUS only MN-tax-exempt federal tax-exempt interest). Consequently, upon TurboTax MN State M1 & M1M E-filing, the submitted M1M Line 1 total (which if calculated correctly represents everything in 1040 Line 2a's Federal Tax-Exempt Interest EXCEPT its small values for MN in-state Tax-Exempt Interest) is then automatically "error checked" by the MN Dept of Revenue to ensure that "M1M Line 1 ≤ 1040 Line 2a" -- and thus the e-filed TurboTax MN tax return is rejected, because it's rightly flagged as showing "M1M line 1 > 1040 Line 2a" for having twice-submitted (thereby doubling MN state income taxes on) any MN KF Line 1 value entered.

Hi, DanaB27, Thank you so much for your reply. It is very helpful. I confirmed that the withheld tax was actually reported to my 2024 return. I will delete it from my 2023 amended return. My first question was resolved.    For my second question, I just figured out that the 6% penalty is not for the early withdraw but it is for the excess contribution. Here is what I figured out. In 2023, I and my wife both made Roth IRA contribution $7500 for each. Our MAGI was $226407 for 2023. We only allowed Roth contribution of $1200. We withdrawn the excess contributions plus the earnings ($1705) before the due date. I thought we avoided the excess contribution penalty. However, when I submitted my 2023 amended return, since it added up $1705 earnings, our MAGI now became $228112. In this case, we do not allow any Roth IRA contribution. The regular contribution of $1200 now becomes excess contribution and we got penalty on it. Not sure if my analysis is correct. If this is the case, I think it is unfair for us since we followed the correct process to do it. Also, if it is the case, we need to withdraw $1200 immediately otherwise we will get further penalty. Do I still have options to avoid the penalty? Please advice. Thanks.

The IRS instructions for Form 1040 say "If you filed a joint return for 2023 and you are filing a joint return for 2024 with the same spouse, be sure to enter your names and SSNs in the same order as on your 2023 return."  

@DanaB27, Thanks for the explanation of how to answer the step-by-step questions appropriately for my situation.    Since you are an Intuit employee, I ask that you propose to your management that the 1099-R related step-by-step questions in the desktop edition be revised in future year editions, if not in an update for 2024, to include more instruction on how to answer them in the case of a taxpayer with multiple traditional IRAs with RMDs, the total of which has been more than satisfied (rather than satisfying each IRA’s RMD individually), and when some of those withdrawals were QCDs.    I have more experience than the average taxpayer in reading questions and instructions closely. I started using Turbotax when it was distributed on 5⅟4-inch floppy disks, before it was purchased by Intuit.  Yet every year I struggled in deciding how to answer the current question set for each IRA such that the correct amounts are calculated for the lines 4a and 4b of Form 1040, as well as for whichever IRS Form is used to document whether the total of the IRA RMDs was satisfied.   In current and recent desktop editions of Turbotax’s Forms mode, for many amounts neither the QuickZoom nor Data Source functions are available.  It would be helpful to users such as myself if in the Turbotax Forms mode all, or at least more of, the antecedents of amounts on forms and worksheets were traceable to the entries on those other forms or worksheets, thereby making it much more difficult to verify the computed amounts are based on correct inputs (generated from the user’s answers to the step-by-step questions), and to troubleshoot form entries that are clearly erroneous.   

The IRS allows you to e-file amended returns for the current tax year Federal return and the two prior tax years if your original return was also e-filed. For older tax years, you'll need to file by mail.   See this help article for instructions to amend your Federal return for a prior year return.   To find your previous years' returns, in TurboTax Online:   When you first open your return and see "let's keep working on your taxes", scroll down to the section "Your tax returns and documents". If you prepared your 2021 tax return in TurboTax, in the same account, you should see "2021" listed among the documents you can select to view. If you used a different TurboTax account for 2021, you would need to log in to that account to view your return. See this help article for more information.   If you need to amend only your state return, please see this help article for instructions for both TurboTax Online and TurboTax Desktop.   See this help article regarding which states allow e-filing of amended returns. They may also require that the original return have been e-filed.    

Nope. Believe me, as an ex-developer, I know how to exercise an object, and their edit object is strictly drop-down, no manual input. At least not the initial object. As I remarked above, the version that was redisplayed after the error had all 12 months, so I didn't try manual input there.