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I have kids at 2 different colleges, and box 1 has never included room and board. And when I search the IRS website, it says that it shouldn't.   Box 1. Payments Received for Qualified Tuition and Related Expenses Enter the total amount of payments received for qualified tuition and related expenses from all sources during the calendar year. The amount reported is the total amount of payments received less any reimbursements or refunds made during the calendar year that relate to the payments received for qualified tuition and related expenses during the same calendar year. The amount reported is not reduced by scholarships and grants reported in box 5. Include in this box the receipt of a payment of past-due qualified tuition or related expenses from a previous calendar year, but only if the educational institution previously billed the student for such amount(s).   Qualified tuition and related expenses.   Qualified tuition and related expenses are tuition, fees, and course materials required for a student to be enrolled at or attend an eligible educational institution. The following are not qualified tuition and related expenses.   Amounts paid for any course or other education involving sports, games, or hobbies, unless the course or other education is part of the student’s degree program or is taken to acquire or improve job skills. Charges and fees for room, board, insurance, medical expenses (including student health fees), transportation, and similar personal, living, or family expenses.

The 1095-C clearly states that the company thinks its offering meets the minimum requirements. As was pointed out to me, suitability to my needs does not mean it is not a compliant plan. A compliant plan is supposed to serve some imagined "average." My needs are not average.  It may be the bare minimum to meet the standard, but apparently, it does meet the standard. So, my original question stands.  How am I supposed to tell TurboTax that I was eligible for a minimum standard healthcare plan and turned it down in favor of a more appropriate HCA plan? And more importantly, how is that supposed to be recorded in the tax forms if it is not a scenario TurboTax was designed to consider?

TurboTax, you are missing the point of this question and similar question in other posts.    1) If you input Gambling win as part of a 1099-MISC there is no way to input your losses in the Step-By-Step guide for 1099-MISC.   2) If you input Gambling win as part of a 1099-MISC and manually input the losses in Misc Dedns Worksheet, it flags as an error.   3) If you input Gambling win/loss as reported on a 1099-MISC in the W-2G Step-By-Step guide and the 1099-MISC you are double counting.   4) If you input Gambling win/loss as reported on a 1099-MISC in the W-2G Step-By-Step guide and skip the 1099-MISC input THEN WE ARE WORRIED THAT THE IRS WILL FLAG IT AS MISSING.   What is the correct and legal and less likely way to get audited to input a 1099-MISC Gambling Win and it's respective losses in TurboTax?     We all understand that we have to ITEMIZE our deductions and that we can only deduct losses up to the amount of WINs.  That is not the issue or question at hand!  

I realize I don't really need a solution to this problem since my foreign taxes are below $300 . I can just skip the foreign tax credit section and I'll get the credit.   This problem should still be fixed by the folks at Intuit, though. 

In TT my Colorado return was accepted by the state on 2/5/26.  The status on the Colorado Department of Revenue site is still showing the following.  Just wondering if it's taking this long for everyone else for Colorado to show "Return Received & Being Processed"?  

You should complete Form 8962 if you have a 1095-A form for health insurance coverage in a qualified health plan purchased through a Marketplace. This includes a qualified health plan purchased on HealthCare.gov or through a State Marketplace.   If you have a 1095-A, enter it into TurboTax and TurboTax will generate the 8962.      Where do I enter my 1095-A?   If you or a member of your family enrolled in health insurance coverage for 2025 through a Marketplace, you should have received Form 1095-A, Health Insurance Marketplace Statement, from the Marketplace. Form 1095-A shows the months of coverage purchased through the Marketplace and any Advance Premium Tax Credits (APTC in column C) paid to your insurance company to help cover your monthly premium.  If APTC was paid on your behalf, or if APTC was not paid on your behalf but you wish to take the PTC, you must file Form 8962 and attach it to your tax return.   From Form 8962 instructions

To view a "prior" TurboTax account, following the instructions below from the following TurboTax Help Article:  How can I view all my TurboTax accounts?   Here's how to view a list of your Intuit accounts:   First, sign out of your account (otherwise, you'll be thrown into a loop in step 2). Go to our Let's get you signed in page. Enter your email address, phone number, or user ID. We'll send a code to either your email address or your phone. Enter the code we've sent you. We'll show you a list of your accounts. Select the one you want to sign in to.

Thanks for the responses, however it does not appear to work in my situation.      Since I have paid no taxes in 2025 and owe no taxes in 2025, I cannot use my foreign tax credits and want to complete form 1116 to carryover those credits to 2026.    My Schwab 1099-DIV does not ask me to complete box 8 and disclose my foreign dividends included in the 1099.      Since it does not ask me to breakout on my 1099, the foreign tax credit section does not ask me any questions and it just says I am not eligible to use the credit and no Form 1116 is prepared. Only when I add another factitious 1099-DIV and report additional factitious dividends and foreign taxes and now own federal income taxes does it ask me to breakout the foreign dividends earned on this fictitious 1099 and now also the real Schwab 1099-DIV.    With this factitious additional income, I do get the additional questions in the foreign tax credit section and I am able to breakout foreign income and it appears get Form 1116 completed successfully. But of course, when I delete this factitious 1099-DIV and just report the real Schwab 1099-DIV, I no longer get the foreign dividend question on the 1099 and the foreign tax credit section does not ask me any questions and it just says I am not eligible for the credit and no Form 1116 is prepared. So how do I get a form 1116 prepared based upon the above situation for my foreign taxes paid on my Schwab 1099-DIV and carryforward unused foreign tax credits?