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I used the method from SteamTrain to get rid of the Investment information required for a Canadian retirement. I have never had a Canadian or any other foreign investments. It was kind of a pain to delete the information I had already entered and then have to reenter it but SteamTrain's solution worked!   Thank you everyone for your suggestions! Dmc48

You will still enter information to Form 5695.    To enter or correct a Form5695 in TurboTax, you can follow these steps              Select Tax Tools from the left sidebar. On the drop-down select Tools There will be 2 green boxes Select Topics Search Type  5695 Continue through the interview or post your corrections The 4th question in will ask: Did you have any of these residential clean energy costs in 2025?   We need to know if you had any costs for these clean energy improvements.   We'll ask about some other energy improvements later. You can claim costs for: Solar electric property Solar water heating property Small wind energy property Geothermal heat pump property Battery storage technology Fuel cell property (main home only) Answer [Yes], we made these residential clean energy improvement   This will give you the opportunity to post section 1.      

I tried checking the  Yes on 10a and sure enough it corrects the percentage. And that seems to only effect lines 22 & 23 but those don't flow through because line 25 (Standard mileage) is checked, and line 28e which only has a tiny effect on the end result because the new car was registered so late in the year that was a small number. My wife's RE Office is in our house, so she tracks all her RE miles showing houses, etc. and there are no commuting miles. By definition anything not business miles is personal miles, but they aren't specifically tracked in her log book. She does also track medical and volunteer miles for use in other areas of the tax forms, but those are personal miles too. So I can't legitimately check Yes on line 10a and guess I have to accept the end result, but I argue that the instructions for calculation of line 9 are clear and shouldn't be effected by things lower in the worksheet.

If you have the Online version, and you haven't filed the return, there was no charge.  You can simply choose the Desktop version that you want, and download it.   If you have filled, you can not pull it back, but you can still purchase the Desktop for any additional returns you may have.   If you haven't filed your Online tax return, you can clear out all of your data. A blank account will still exist Log back into TurboTax Select an Item like Personal Info from the center listing Then click on Preview/Edit or Continue This will turn on the left side menu In the bottom left choose Switch Products Then select Clear and Start Over    

Please confirm that no policy was issued to anyone in your household. You can use the phone number listed by state at  The Health Insurance Marketplace. To clear a 1095-A in TurboTax, you can follow these steps   Select Tax Tools On the drop-down select Tools There will be 2 green boxes Select Topics Search Type 1095-A The question will come up Did you receive Form 1095-A for your health insurance plan? Answer Yes Continue to the form Delete it using the trash can Repeat the process When you get to Did you receive Form 1095-A for your health insurance plan? Answer No

How to start a new joint return   You will not be able to merge two previous TT account to start your new joint return.  You can transfer ONE of your 2024 returns into a new return, so choose the most complicated one.  The other spouse’s information needs to be entered manually.  The first name you enter will be the “primary” taxpayer——and in subsequent years you need to keep the names in that order—do not try to change the order of the names.     When you enter the primary spouse’s information in My Info, you have to answer the question "Were you married?"  If you click the button for Married, then a drop down will appear that asks, "Do you want to file this return together with your spouse?"  Then you choose YES to file a joint return.  You enter your spouse's information into My Info.  Whenever you are entering income information there should then be a spot for you and for your spouse's income information.  WATCH for the names as you enter income on the screens.  Or when you click to add income it will prompt you to choose which spouse had the income.   When you prepare a joint return you include all the information for both spouses on the SAME tax return.  Include all of your personal information, all of your income from every source, all dependents (if any), all credits and deductions for both of you.  You get ONE refund with both names on it.   And…keep a record of how to access the “old” account for your spouse in case a need comes up to print it or find information from it.  TT will save it online for seven years,