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Are you claiming a qualified dependent?   Am I Head of Household?   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-filing-status/qualify-head-household-2021/L0NxUtVc2_US_en_US?uid=m5x19jkx What is a "qualifying person" for Head of Household?   If you qualify as Head of Household, when you enter your marital status (single or married filing separately) into MyInfo, and then enter your qualifying dependent, TurboTax will offer HOH as your filing status.    

If you need to correct the EIN on your Form W2, please follow these steps in TurboTax Online:    Sign in to TurboTax and choose continue or Pick up where you left off On the left side bar, choose Federal and then Wages & Income Select Add/Edit next to Job (W2) Select Edit/Review next to the W2 that needs corrected Make your corrections and walk through the follow-up screens

It is common for credit card companies to show more than one pending charge.  That additional charge usually drops off after a few days.  Contact the credit card company if the additional charge does not disappear when it is done with pending.

You can file your extension at our Easy Extension website.   An extension gives you until October 15, 2025 to file your taxes instead of the tax deadline of April 15, 2025. You must file an extension by April 15, 2025 to get extra time to file your taxes without a penalty. There's no further extension past October 15, 2025. An extension does not give you extra time to pay your taxes, which are due on April 15, 2025. Even if you can't pay your taxes by the deadline, file an extension anyway so you can avoid the late-filing penalty.   How do I file an IRS tax extension?   How do I file an extension for my personal state taxes?

When you use online TurboTax software you get one return per fee.   Each return needs its own account and user ID.   If you use the same account and user ID for a second return, the second one overwrites the first return and it is lost forever.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/using-turbotax/help/how-do-i-start-another-return-in-turbotax-online/00/25596

@ sg312 wrote:  Now TurboTax has no idea that i filed for and received an extension. I realize this isn't your original issue, but based on that one sentence, here's some info that may help you or others later on to be sure you are getting proper credit for any extension payment you made with an extension request.   The entries for both Federal and state extension payments are found on the Federal side of the return interview.   So to report your extension payment(s) in the program (or to confirm the amount if autopopulated), here is the navigation in the desktop software:   Federal tab (it's the PERSONAL tab in Home and Business) Subtab Deductions & Credits "I'll choose what I work on" Your 2024 Deductions & Credits summary page Scroll down to topic Estimates and Other Taxes Choose subtopic Other Income Taxes and click Start or Update. On the "Other Income Taxes" screen, under the topic "Payments with Extension" choose the type of extension payment (Federal, state, local) and correct tax year for the payment, then Start or Update.

You will enter your royalty income in the business income section of TurboTax and then Rental Properties and Royalty Income.  On the screen that says Is This a Rental Property or Royalty? choose the Royalty property or payment option:  

If you own 50% of a rental property, there are two ways to report it.  You can do what it sounds like you are trying to do and report 50% of the rental property on your personal tax return.  The other way is to treat it as a partnership and report 100% on Form 1065 and then issuing each of you a K-1 with your share of income and expenses.  If you report 50% on your return then you should treat your 50% as a whole rental property.  You will set it with a cost basis of 50% of actual.  The program won't calculate depreciation based on your ownership percentage.  It will calculate it on whatever you enter as the cost basis.  

Per Texas Comptroller, "When you sell taxable goods or services in Texas, or sell to Texas customers, you must collect the 6.25 percent state sales or use tax and the appropriate local sales or use tax. The local tax due cannot be more than 2 percent, so the most tax you can collect is 8.25 percent."