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To enter your estimated tax payments in TurboTax Online:   Go to Deductions & Credits Scroll down to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid  Select Start or Revisit next to the type of estimated tax payments you need to enter Enter the amount of estimated tax payments by quarter

Social Security is 15% - half of which is paid by the employee and the other half is paid by the employer.   These amounts would be reflected on his w-2 if he were an employee.   He is still responsible for his share even if it was not withheld by his employer.   As an independent contractor receiving a 1099, your son is considered self-employed and pays the full 15% (Self-Employment Tax) - because as a self-employed business owner, he is both the employee and the employer.   The restaurant owner is your son's client, not his employer in this situation.     TurboTax can handle his situation either way depending upon his status.     FICA and Self-Employment Contributions Act   Why am I paying self-employment tax?   If there is confusion regarding your son's status, you can get the IRS involved by filing a determination request.     Firms and workers file Form SS-8 to request a determination of the status of a worker under the common law rules for purposes of federal employment taxes and income tax withholding. Generally, under the common law rules a worker is an employee if the firm has the right to control and direct what will be done and how it will be done.    How to enter Self-Employment income If it is determined he is an employee, enter the income in  Federal (or Personal) Taxes -> Wages and Income -> Less Common Income -> Misc Income -> Other Income Not Already Reported on A Form W2 or Form 1099

@ mydaughter1 wrote: ineed turbotax for 2024, already purchased email delivery federal and state 2024  Are you saying you purchased the 2024 software, were emailed the license activation code, and now need to download the 2024 installation file?   If so, go to the page linked below, and at the top right of the page you can change the tab to 2024; i.e., there are 2 tabs at the top of that page--one for 2024 and one for 2025.   If that page opens on the 2025 tab displaying 2025 products, then choose the other tab for 2024.  Then select your 2024 product.  It will ask you if you want the Windows or Mac version.   https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/cd-download/install-turbotax

To enter Federal or State Estimated Taxes Paid, including a state estimated payment made in January for the prior year, go to Federal on left or at top (Personal for Home & Business) Deductions and Credits Then scroll way down to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid Estimates - click the Start or Update button   I read a post that you may have to expand or go to Other common situations. Or maybe uncommon situations.

Thank you for your quick response. Are you stating that even if I activate the new license key code for the same version, as you have instructed, I still will not be able to electronically file the additional 5 returns? If so, what's the benefit of purchasing a second license? I can prepare, print and mail from the first license that was purchased.  

You may be answering your own question when you state, "I didn't work that much last year."   The refundable child-related credits are based on how much you earned from working.   If you did not earn much, your child-related credits will be low.     Have you entered income from working in 2025?  If not,  you will not receive an income tax refund based on having dependent children.     The maximum amount of the child tax credit is now $2200 per child; the refundable “additional child tax credit” amount is $1700.   In order to get that credit, you have to have income from working.   Take the amount you earned from working.   Subtract $2500.   Multiply the rest by 15%.  That is the additional child tax credit per child that you canget—- up to the maximum of $1700 per child.   If the amount you earned from working was low, you will not get the full $1700 per child.    If your child is older than 16 at the end of 2025, you do not get the CTC.  But you may still get the non-refundable $500 credit for other dependents instead.   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/taxation/child-tax-credit/L2lNhfGDl_US_en_US?uid=m68dfq2u   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/taxation/additional-child-tax-credit/L6xFeMFEf_US_en_US?uid=lqnuygah https://www.irs.gov/help/ita/does-my-childdependent-qualify-for-the-child-tax-credit-or-the-credit-for-other-dependents     And for the Earned Income Credit—-   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-credits-deductions/qualifications-earned-income-credit-eic-eitc/L7w4BFP32_US_en_US?uid=m62rmz09   https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/earned-income-tax-credit/use-the-eitc-assistant   https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p596.pdf   Look at your 2025 Form 1040 to see the child-related credits you received   PREVIEW 1040 https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/preview-turbotax-online-return-filing/L77WCkvnu_US_en_US?uid=m681fkhr   Child Tax Credit line 19 Credit for Other Dependents line 19 Earned Income Credit line 27 Additional Child Tax Credit line 28     AND….If you have children but had  little or no income, it raises the question of how you and the children were supported.  There may be another tax-paying adult who can claim you and/or the children as dependents.    

When mailing an amended return, you only need to include the tax Forms & Schedules that changed, along with any supporting documentation or forms - like your W-2c.  So, obviously you need to include the 1040-X, Form 1040 & it's schedules that may have changed. If Schedule B or Schedule D didn't change, you don't need to include them.  That said, it's better to send a form that's not needed than to omit one that is.  They won't penalize you for sending a form that's not needed.  

 Can someone please clarify this answer as it is completely unclear.   Say you have a 1099-DIV with Box 1 which has $5,000 in Ordinary Dividends.  You know that $2,000 of those dividends are from US government obligations and you want that to flow through to your personal taxes.  IT seems you enter this directly on your K-1 but where?  Do you adjust the down the $5,000 to $3,000 and separate out the $2,000 and enter them else wehre.   Second Wht if you have information in Box12 of your 1099DIV.  WHich is tax exempt interest.  There is no where to enter that information so if flows through. Especially if Box 13 is also populated.     Why does turbotax business not handle this... It is really frustrating.

How many tax returns can I file with Turbo Tax? https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/start-another-return-turbotax-online/L0B7Rjkyo_US_en_US?uid=mabbwshc   The 5 efile limit is from the IRS. It's to prevent fraud and people filing fake returns. To do more you have to sign up as a ERO - Electronic Returns Originator and be an authorized E-file provider. And you can't buy another Desktop program to get more efiles.

Sorry----The five federal e-file limit is an IRS limit.    Downloading a second license code will not allow you to get around the IRS limit.   The additional returns can be filed by mail instead of e-filing them.      Seek a refund for the second copy which you will not be able to use.   To request a refund for a TT product https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/intuit-refunds/request-refund-turbotax-product/L834M6uyW_US_en_US?uid=m6meybc2  

Here's how to activate a different version. There is a way to have 2 licenses. You don't need to install the second version just enter the License Code. Under Help - Switch Product - Activate new product. Don't know what that will do or what benefit you will get. It won't allow you to efile more than 5 or get a different free state program download.   You will have to print and mail the rest.  You should always do and efile the most complicated ones first.  Maybe a simple one can use the Online Free Edition.  

Thank you so much for letting me know! I really appreciate it! I'm relieved to know that TurboTax is aware of the issue. I look forward to hearing back from you once IT contacts you. Thanks again so much! 🙂