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If you've already filled the return, you will have to do an amendment. The April 15th deadline dose not apply   Wait for the original return to be completely processed.   TurboTax Online On the Tax Home screen, scroll down to Your tax returns & documents and select the year you want to amend. Select the Amend (change) return dropdown,  Then Amend using TurboTax Online.  If you're told to amend your return via TurboTax Desktop, follow the steps for TurboTax Desktop instead. Continue through the screens, Make the changes you need to make, and carefully answer the remaining questions to finish amending your return.   Go back into his tax return. Under My Info (Top of left sidebar) Click the down arrow next to his name Scroll down to add a dependent

You should fill out your information either in the TurboTax program (the easiest way), and it will calculate your estimated tax payments (as well as print your quarterly vouchers)   or you can go online to the IRS website and fill out, calculate;, print and then mail your 1040-ES form.   If you want to add Form 1040-ES vouchers to your return yourself, follow these instructions.   Mail your payment along with the corresponding 1040-ES voucher to the IRS address listed on the voucher. Quarterly payment due dates are printed on each voucher.   Additional estimated tax payment options, including direct debit, credit card, cash, and wire transfer, are available at the IRS Payment website.   You also have the option when you file your return to apply some or all of your refund to your estimated tax payments for the coming tax year.     TurboTax FAQ: How do I make estimated tax payments?   IRS - Estimated taxes  

To avoid all the necessary verbage, delete your 1099 MISC entry you have made. Now report it in the following manner so that TurboTax does not think this is Schedule C 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. Here Describe this as "1099 MISC income received and the amount.        

Thanks @MinhT1! Both my extension and return were filed through TurboTax and accepted by the IRS. Unfortunately I did not notice an option to report estimated tax paid when I was filing my return, nor did TurboTax prefill my estimated tax paid even though I filed the extension through TurboTax! Line 26 on 1040 is blank and I am due a refund on my federal return even without the estimated tax payment factored in. Do I need to file an amended return to make sure my refund includes the estimated tax that I effectively overpaid?

Since you already amended your son's return, you now need to submit your taxes and include an IP PIN for your son.  Visit Get an identity protection PIN (IP PIN) for further information.     Once you get his IP PIN, include it in your return and e-file it.   @Big Red machine 

We are paying Turbo Tax to know and understand the details. TT is smart enough to check the windows version at startup, then refuse to launch unless Win10 or higher. It is just as easy for TT to verify TMP and TEMP presence at startup as well. More insidious is the network METERING function that causes TT update errors. In its infinite wisdom, Microsoft updates took it upon itself to enable METERING in my network connection. This resulted in a cryptic fail-to-update message from TT. The user is paying Turbo Tax to do its job, because most users are not system admins familiar with Windows internals. Same goes for TT asking me to dig out some Sched-E carryover field from last years tax return, that it prepared. TT knows exactly what it wants, and where to find it, yet demands the user scour through old returns to find some arcane value and manually plug it in. Millions of users are paying TT good money to do the job. These basic loose ends are unacceptable.    

Enter the income in the correct areas and then subtract them back out. You can make 2 subtractions listing each code or add them together.    Follow these steps: Open to federal income You may need to show other income or less common income Locate Miscellaneous Income, 1099-A, 1099-C, Start Scroll to the bottom Other reportable income, Start Other taxable income? Select YES Description Tax Exempt China Treaty article 20 Amount, enter your negative amount -use a minus sign in front. Continue @yxy20299 

Informational returns are forms and documents sent to the IRS as a means of giving the IRS information (only) such as a copy of Form 1099-MISC or a copy of someone's W-2.  It could also include Form 941 reporting tax withholding for employees.  The IRS will match some "informational returns" to taxpayer's tax returns and make sure they are being declared.