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March 15, 2026
6:09 AM
I was able to follow the steps above and report code L in column F of the IRS form 8949.
Under What type of investment did you sell, try entering Personal items when you report the loss.
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I was able to follow the steps above and report code L in column F of the IRS form 8949.
Under What type of investment did you sell, try entering Personal items when you report the loss.
@lech
March 15, 2026
6:07 AM
On Form 4825, taxable agricultural payments do not have to be less than or equal to zero. There are some agricultural payments that are taxable and some are not. Some of the most common taxable pro...
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On Form 4825, taxable agricultural payments do not have to be less than or equal to zero. There are some agricultural payments that are taxable and some are not. Some of the most common taxable programs are the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), disaster payments, and Market Facilitation Program payments. There are some payments that are not taxable are payments for cost-sharing, like for qualified soil and water conservation expenses.
These payments are reported on Form 1099-G, "Certain Government Payments, if TurboTax shows that your payments are not taxable, if could be how you entered your payment information. To go back and review your entries:
Go to Income and Expenses
Other Common Income
Other 1099-G Income.
Select "Yes" to "Did you receive any of these payments on Form 1099-G?"
Enter the payment amount in Box 6.
Review to see what type of payment you selected
March 15, 2026
6:07 AM
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March 15, 2026
6:06 AM
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As I previously said, to the best of my knowledge I did not delete my 2025 tax return. I saved the tax return many, many, many times during the prep process. I tried looking everywhere that I knew ...
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As I previously said, to the best of my knowledge I did not delete my 2025 tax return. I saved the tax return many, many, many times during the prep process. I tried looking everywhere that I knew to find it with no luck. A friend of mine had the same disappearing of his Turbo Tax 2025 tax return. So, my issue seems not to be an isolated issue. I had to do a total reinput of my tax return into the Turbo Tax software which took quite a bit of time to do.
March 15, 2026
6:02 AM
Thank you for responding. I think you’re right. I hadn’t factored in the limitation on deductions for high income. (Doing my mother-in-law’s taxes for the first time.) It would be nice if TurboTax ad...
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Thank you for responding. I think you’re right. I hadn’t factored in the limitation on deductions for high income. (Doing my mother-in-law’s taxes for the first time.) It would be nice if TurboTax added one of their friendly explanations about that.
March 15, 2026
6:01 AM
To enter self-employed health insurance premiums in TurboTax Home & Business Desktop for 2025, follow these steps: 1. Open your tax return and go to the Federal Taxes section. 2. Select Wages & I...
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To enter self-employed health insurance premiums in TurboTax Home & Business Desktop for 2025, follow these steps: 1. Open your tax return and go to the Federal Taxes section. 2. Select Wages & Income. 3. If asked how you want to enter your income, choose I'll choose what I work on. 4. Under Business Items, select Start or Update next to Business Income and Expenses (Schedule C). 5. Enter or review your business info until you reach the Business Expenses screen. 6. Select Start or Update next to All Other Expenses. 7. Enter your self-employed health insurance premiums amount in the description box (e.g., "Self-Employed Health Insurance Premiums") and the amount paid. This entry will apply the deduction automatically on Schedule 1, line 17, and the amount will flow through the return correctly. Note that you do not enter the deduction directly on Schedule 1 worksheet; TurboTax calculates it from the business expenses you enter.
@user17568281569
March 15, 2026
5:59 AM
It says on the where is my refund that they are reviewing it if they need more info they will inform me but if not they will continue to process my return. I have never had any things like this happen...
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It says on the where is my refund that they are reviewing it if they need more info they will inform me but if not they will continue to process my return. I have never had any things like this happen years before when I checked the refund tracker why now and what does it mean if anything at all?
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March 15, 2026
5:57 AM
Do you have an IRS form 1099-B that does not report cost basis or date acquired?
There are cases when the issuer of the IRS form 1099-B does not have the information or is not required to repor...
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Do you have an IRS form 1099-B that does not report cost basis or date acquired?
There are cases when the issuer of the IRS form 1099-B does not have the information or is not required to report the information that they have.
You may have to refer to your personal records including sales tickets to locate the information that is needed.
You may enter an IRS form 1099-B into TurboTax Premium Online on a One by one basis by following these steps.
Down the left side of the screen, click Federal.
Down the left side of the screen, click Wages & Income.
Click the down arrow to the right of Investments and Savings.
Click to the right of Stocks, Cryptocurrency, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Other (1099-B).
Click Add investments.
At the screen Save time and connect your financial accounts, click Enter a different way.
At the screen How do you want to add your docs?, click Type it in myself.
At the screen OK, let’s start with one investment type, select Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds. Continue.
At the screen Which bank or brokerage is on your 1099-B, enter the information. Click Continue.
Do these sales include any employee stock, click No.
Do you have more than three sales on your 1099-B, click No.
Do these sales include any other types of investments, click No.
Did you buy every investment listed on your 1099-B, click Yes. Click Continue.
At the screen Now, choose how to enter your sales, select One by one. Click Continue.
At the screen Look for your sales on your 1099-B, click Continue.
At the screen Now enter one sale on this 1099-B, enter information. Click Continue.
Enter the information. Select The cost basis is incorrect or missing on my 1099-B. Continue.
At the screen We noticed there's an issue with your cost basis, select I know my cost basis and need to make an adjustment. Continue.
Repeat as necessary by clicking Add another sale. Click Continue.
March 15, 2026
5:57 AM
Your understanding is correct. You should only be entering the Traditional IRA contribution into your 2025 tax return. TurboTax will determine whether the contribution may be deductible. If it is ...
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Your understanding is correct. You should only be entering the Traditional IRA contribution into your 2025 tax return. TurboTax will determine whether the contribution may be deductible. If it is not deductible, it will automatically be considered to be non-deductible, or you may see a question about choosing to make it non-deductible.
You should not enter any information in your 2025 return with regard to a Roth IRA. You will report the conversion on your 2026 tax return since it was converted during 2026.
For reference, take a look at the following TurboTax help article:
How do I enter a backdoor Roth IRA conversion?
@zhilingzeng
March 15, 2026
5:56 AM
If you were the designated beneficiary of the IRA, you are responsible for reporting all of this income on your tax return and paying the taxes. That responsibility is not permitted to be passed to ...
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If you were the designated beneficiary of the IRA, you are responsible for reporting all of this income on your tax return and paying the taxes. That responsibility is not permitted to be passed to others. What you did with the funds after receiving them has no bearing on this. An IRA with a designated beneficiary is not subject to the terms of the will. If you chose to respect your mothers wishes by giving amounts you your siblings, these are gifts from you to your siblings. If the amount you gave any recipient in 2025 is more than $19,000, you must file a gift tax return, Form 709. (Although it doesn't sound like it's the case, if your mother's estate, not you, was the beneficiary, the distribution would have been made to your mother's estate and would be reported on an estate income tax return, Form 1041.)
March 15, 2026
5:56 AM
Tried everything, then uninstalled and reinstalled. Still getting the same error.
March 15, 2026
5:55 AM
Hi, Thanks for your answer, but this is not the screen I get in the TurboTax Desktop Premiere version - in my program, the cost of the property has already been autofilled from the previous year's ...
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Hi, Thanks for your answer, but this is not the screen I get in the TurboTax Desktop Premiere version - in my program, the cost of the property has already been autofilled from the previous year's return, and I am first asked to "verify" that. Then there are a couple of screens asking about special handling, and I get to a "Sales Information" screen that asks me to allocate expenses between the house and the land. There is NO WHERE that the program indicates where I can "adjust the cost basis" from the previous year's information. It appears that this year's program has failed to account for this step. So it seems that my only solution is to add the cost of improvements to the selling expenses, which I then allocate between house, land, and other assets sold along with the house (new heater, etc). But I feel like this inflates my "sales expenses" to an unusually high amount (we did quite a bit of improving) and might be a red flag?
March 15, 2026
5:53 AM
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In TurboTax Home & Business Desktop for 2025, the self-employed health insurance premiums deduction is entered through your business income and expenses area, not directly on the Schedule 1 worksheet...
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In TurboTax Home & Business Desktop for 2025, the self-employed health insurance premiums deduction is entered through your business income and expenses area, not directly on the Schedule 1 worksheet. To enter your self-employed health insurance premiums, follow these steps: 1. Go to the Federal Taxes section, then select Wages & Income. 2. Choose I'll choose what I work on if prompted. 3. Under Business Items, find Business Income and Expenses (Schedule C) and select Start or Update. 4. Continue through your business information until you reach the Business Expenses screen. 5. Select Start or Update next to All Other Expenses. 6. Enter your total self-employed health insurance premiums in the field for Self-Employed Health Insurance Premiums. This will automatically carry over the deduction to Schedule 1, line 17, and the box will be filled by the software. You can't edit that box manually because it is calculated based on your entries in business expenses.
March 15, 2026
5:51 AM
Thanks for the reply. I found an article in the forum. I did not folow it correctly at first , thus not able to fix it. But after re-reading it, i found my problem and corrected the issue. This w...
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Thanks for the reply. I found an article in the forum. I did not folow it correctly at first , thus not able to fix it. But after re-reading it, i found my problem and corrected the issue. This way is also easier to fix in the 1099-DIV.
March 15, 2026
5:51 AM
your path to enter SE health premiums is not in 2025 Home ^ Business desktop version. How do I get it entered. In the 20 years, I've been filing as a self-employed individual using TurboTax I have ne...
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your path to enter SE health premiums is not in 2025 Home ^ Business desktop version. How do I get it entered. In the 20 years, I've been filing as a self-employed individual using TurboTax I have never had this problem. What happened? How do I get the number entered?
March 15, 2026
5:48 AM
You should enter both W-2 forms exactly as they appear, because each one reports part of your wages and taxes for the year.
March 15, 2026
5:47 AM
This is an easier way to fix. Thanks for the info.
March 15, 2026
5:46 AM
Bonus depreciation from a cost segregation study is handled by entering each asset from the study separately in the depreciation section of TurboTax. TurboTax will automatically apply any eligible bo...
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Bonus depreciation from a cost segregation study is handled by entering each asset from the study separately in the depreciation section of TurboTax. TurboTax will automatically apply any eligible bonus depreciation for the shorter-life assets when you enter the cost and placed-in-service date.
March 15, 2026
5:46 AM
If you have received a second W-2 from the same employer due to a payroll provider change, you should enter both W-2s separately in TurboTax. Here’s how to handle this: 1. Go to the Wages & Incom...
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If you have received a second W-2 from the same employer due to a payroll provider change, you should enter both W-2s separately in TurboTax. Here’s how to handle this: 1. Go to the Wages & Income section. 2. Select Add a W-2 for each form. 3. Enter the details exactly as they appear on each W-2. If the federal wage info on both forms is the same but state or local info differs, enter all info from the most complete W-2, then add the differing state or local details on the same W-2 screen. Keep both forms for your records. This ensures that all income and tax withholding is reported accurately.