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I am very sorry for your loss. It depends on whether you have a dependent child living with you. If you do have a dependent child, you may be eligible to file as a Qualifying Surviving Spouse, which is an advantageous status because it allows you to continue using the Married Filing Jointly tax rates and standard deduction for the two years following your husband's death. However, if you do not have a dependent child, you will file as Single this year.

You want to go to the Foreign Earned Income and Exclusion under Less Common Income.     To enter Foreign Earned Income Exclusion: 1. Go to the Federal tab and choose Wages & Income (or Income & Expenses). 2. Under Less Common Income,  click Start/Update next to Foreign Earned Income and Exclusion.  

If your tips are not being reported in either box 14 or box 7 on the W-2 and are being reported in box 1, then complete the entry of the W-2.  On the following screen Let's check for other situations check the box Tips included in box 1 of my W-2, but not in boxes 7 or 14 and Continue.

To add a Section 179 asset for your 2025 taxes, you will typically navigate to the business section of the software - you don't say if this is for a rental or a business, but you will navigate to the section that the 179 asset is related to, and then add or edit the asset.     Once you enter the details for your asset, the system should prompt you to choose between standard depreciation or taking the Section 179 deduction to expense the full cost in a single year.   Keep in mind that for 2025, the Section 179 deduction limit is $2,500,000, and the equipment must be placed in service by December 31, 2025.  

Accounts cannot be deleted.   You can simply abandon the account if you will not be using it.   If you used it for any past year returns, keep a record of how to access it since returns are saved for seven years.

My Colorado State return has now advanced to the "Refund Reviewed" next stage.   Tip: Click on the pic below for an easier to read view.   So, here's a summary of the timeline for Colorado to process my tax return, so far: My return showed "Accepted" in TurboTax on February 5, 2026. This is when Colorado state placed it in their "Return Not Received or Not Yet Processed" BLACK HOLE queue. My return advanced to the "Return Received & Being Processed" stage on February 19, 2026. The timeline to this point shows it took Colorado 14 days to start processing my return. My return advanced to the "Refund Reviewed" stage today, February 21, 2026. I will add 2 more days to the timeline, which is now at 16 days. It looks like Colorado State is starting to pick up their pace a little for processing tax returns, based on my experience and the experience of other posts in this discussion thread.  Hopefully this will help everyone to somewhat set your own expectations for the processing of your tax return with the State.  Hang in their everyone!  There is light at the end of the tunnel!

You cannot change or add anything on the return that you just e-filed, nor can you stop it.  It is too late, just like when you put an envelope in a US mailbox on the corner.  The IRS does not allow you to take it back.   If you left out a W-2, a 1099G, or a dependent, or a 1099 etc…DO NOT change your return while it is “pending.”  The changes will go nowhere.   Now you have to wait until the IRS either rejects or accepts your return.  If your return is rejected, you will be able to go into your account and make the necessary changes to your tax return and re-submit your return.    Sometimes—not always— the IRS corrects your mistakes, while they are processing your return.    If the IRS accepts your return, however, then you have to wait longer until it has been fully processed and you have received your refund.  THEN you can prepare an amended tax return and e-file or mail  it in. You have to be able to work from that return exactly the way it was when it was e-filed originally.  You will need to use a form called a 1040X.     Meanwhile, DO NOT go in and start changing anything on your return in the system, or you will make a mess for yourself.  Sit tight and wait until you see what the IRS does with the return you just e-filed   The Form 1040X is scheduled to be available on February 26.   The date is subject to change, so check on 2-26  to see if it is ready.   Before that, do not change anything at all on your return.  

I am sorry I wasn't clear. I did not receive a 1099-sa because I did not have any distributions. TT was still requesting a code for the box 3 of the form after filling out HSA info. I re-reviewed my steps after initially leaving a blank response for box 3 and TT didn't flag it again. Can't really explain why it didn't re-flag it but it cleared this time!?! Thank you for taking the time to respond!

Thanks and appreciate the screenshots. I'm 100% certain this is a bug from Turbotax side. When I was working on it yesterday, the "Tell us about this asset" page only has "Looks good" button, when you click it you basically go back to the previous screen. Today I was about to file my tax but came back to this page just to be sure, and the "Looks good" button is somehow magically replaced with "Continue" and now I can move along and enter the selling date.    For anybody who's struggling with this.... maybe try clearing your browser cache, restart, or wait for some time and re-do it. Very bad, and potentially problematic user experience. 

"5 days early" means you are supposed to receive your federal refund from one to five days sooner than the refund date shown on the IRS refund site.   If it does not meet that "at least one day sooner" date, they are supposed to refund the $35 fee.   You have to pay attention to the date on the IRS refund site. You need your filing status, your Social Security number and the exact amount  (line 35a of your 2025 Form 1040) of your federal refund to track your Federal refund:    https://www.irs.gov/refunds