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The other option is to try clearing your cache, then follow my suggestions above, and see if that somehow resets whatever the issue is.     If that doesn't assist, I can 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”)   @expattaxquestions   

@205 966 6355  Paying the TurboTax account fees does not file a tax return.   Did you e-file your 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 IRS use the federal tax refund website to check the refund status - https://www.irs.gov/refunds   If you did not file your 2023 tax return, it will have to printed, signed, dated and mailed to the IRS, it can no longer be e-filed.   To access your prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the User ID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/   Start the 2024 online tax return by entering some personal information then click on Tax Home on the left side of the screen.   On the Tax Home webpage - Scroll down to the section Your tax returns & documents.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)    If you used the desktop CD/Download editions installed on your computer, the only copy of your tax data file and any PDF's will be on the computer where the return was created.  TurboTax does not store online any returns completed using the desktop editions.   Include with the 2023 federal tax return any forms W-2 and 1099 which show taxes withheld. Go to this IRS website for the address to mail a federal tax return, by state, with and without a tax payment - https://www.irs.gov/filing/where-to-file-paper-tax-returns-with-or-without-a-payment

Just a conversion.  You should get a 1099R for it.  It will be taxable.  It is not a new contribution so don’t enter it under Deductions & Credits.   Enter a 1099R under Federal Taxes Wages & Income Then scroll way down to Retirement Plans and Social Security Then IRA, 401(k), Pension Plan Withdrawals (1099-R) – Click Start   After you enter the 1099R it will ask you some follow up questions.   Pick I moved it to another retirement account.  Then it will ask if it was to a ROTH.   Then choose - I did a combination of rolling over, converting or cashing out the money Then it will ask how much you converted to a ROTH   The whole gross amount (before taxes) is 100% taxable. Then you get credit for the taxes withheld on 1040 line 25b. 

Here is how I would suggest approaching it.  Keep the same vehicle information for Business 1. Use total and business miles to determine the current year's depreciation. TurboTax would do it for you once you enter the information.    Enter another vehicle for Business 2, using the remaining cost basis you show for the vehicle on Business 1. Opt out of the bonus depreciation, and do not use Sec. 179 deduction for this asset. Again, use the total and this business's miles driven to determine the depreciation allowed.  An example may make it clearer.    You bought the vehicle for $50,000. Let's say that 2024 was year 3 of its depreciation, and the accumulated depreciation is $35,000. This gives you the remaining depreciable value of $15,000.  You also drove 26,000 total miles. You drove 14,000 for Business 1. And 8,000 for Business 2.  Business 1. There will be no changes to the asset information for this vehicle. You will enter total mileage driven at 26,000, and business miles 14,000, giving your business usage of 54%.  Business 2. You will create a new asset. The cost basis is $15,000. Total miles driven - 26,000, Miles driven for this business - 8,000. Business usage 31% 

Ok thank you. It is a small amount so I don't really care about paying the tax on it. I have a separate (Maybe separate) problem with the filing though. When I go through the HSA section, i answer that I did not have any HDHP in 2024. However, when I try to file at the end, it gives me an error and says I need to fill out either "Self" or "Family" for HDHP coverage in 2024 on Question 1 on Form 8889. I already said no earlier (and also no to Medicare) so not sure why it is requiring this. 

You can do this as long as you did not organize as an LLC or something else.  If you organized, you have to follow different rules depending on where you live.   In Turbotax, you can create multiple schedule C businesses.  This would be true whether you have two different side gigs (like landscaper and ride share), or you and your spouse have two separate businesses, or you and your spouse share the same business.  You can call the businesses "Bob's music" and "Jane's music" for example, just make sure the "owner" of each business and their SSN is correctly assigned to each schedule C.  Then, report the income and expenses equally, or report them unequally if your activities were unequal. 

Pub 970 ( https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p970.pdf ) is the reference for this topic. But, you're not going to find that specifically covered.    The bottom line, for most parents with kids in off campus housing, is that your tax free 529 distribution is limited to the cost of attendance or what on campus students pay, whichever is less. 

To access your current or prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the User ID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/   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.