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Does each of you have a 1098E?    When you are entering information on a joint return there should be entry spots for each spouse or it should ask which spouse you are entering the information for.       

ANND...you should wait until you receive your original Refund...or pay the original tax due, before you prepare and file an Amended tax return.   Your Original accepted e-filing cannot be stopped or bypassed.

Unfortunately, @DaveF1006 the burden of proof is on the taxpayer to find explicit support for categorizing income as passive, and I challenge you to find that support for pensions anywhere in the IRS publications, or the tax code, or IRS bulletins, private letter rulings, court cases, etc.  Unless you can find explicit support for categorizing it as passive, then the income defaults to general category.  There are cases where someone might have what they consider to be pension income, but it is actually an annuity contract, and in that case it fits into one of the explicit types of income that can be considered passive.  But for the most part, the income that people think about as "pension" does not meet the definition of "annuity contract".   Over a period of decades I've had tax returns filed by three different tax professionals who do nothing but international tax for a living, and they have all been unequivocal that foreign pension income falls in the general category.   If you have some support for the opposite position please share it.  

100% agree, if TT can't provide a decisive date -- not a moving target -- and some kind of compensation to those of us who had to postpone our submittal due to this repeated delay, I will be using another service next year.  VERY poorly managed!

If you made estimated or quarterly tax payments in 2025 toward your federal, state, or local taxes, enter them in the Estimates and Other Income Taxes Paid section.   Navigate to the estimated tax payments section: TurboTax Online/Mobile: Go to estimated tax payments under Deductions & Credits. TurboTax Desktop: Go to the Federal Taxes, then Deductions & Credits. Select Estimates and Other Taxes Paid. Select Start or Revisit next to the type of estimated tax payment you'd like to enter under Estimated Tax Payments. Enter the amount of estimated tax you paid at each of the quarterly due dates. If you paid 2025 estimated taxes in 2025, you'll enter just one amount for each state or locality. See also this help article.  

Thanks - but it would have saved a LOT of wasted time if on my first two calls to TTOL help (enduring a considerable wait on hold) the agent had simply relayed this info.  A third call finally had the answer.     I guess getting it right one time out of three works for Intuit.  And I have little choice other than accepting it.

I sold a second home (not a rental) in the state of Florida. My mother lived in this house until the time of sale. There are Capital gains associated with the sale. I live in Alabama and never lived in the house myself. Do I need to file in Florida, in addition to Alabama, given that Florida has no personal income tax? If I need to, I assume I'll need to buy the Florida state tax forms from Turbo Tax also.