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Specifics are as follows I have passive  foreign dividend income and foreign taxes coming thru on a 1099-DIV.  Total income is $602.73 and taxes paid are $62.93.  Based on these amounts and passive income only, form 1116 is not required. The information pulled from the brokerage downloaded correctly but I am not being credited for the foreign taxes being paid as the $62.93 should be in my total Federal refund and it is not.  I made a copy of my tax file and tried filling out form 1116 and the worksheet on the 2nd copy .  It did not make a difference as the foreign taxes still did not show in the totals.   Please advise if the TurboTax software can be corrected for this error?

It does not appear that we are going to be receiving any other tax documentation. A letter from the attorney stated that the enclosed 1099-S has been reported to the IRS and any questions would have to be submitted to a CPA. So it sounds like I need to reach out to see if I can obtain a K-1?

Did you have any capital gains?   Capital losses are first applied against capital gains and then up to $3,000 can be used to offset all other income. Any amount in excess of the $3,000 is carried forward to the following tax year.   If you had no capital gains, then you could only use $3,000 of losses reported to you on your K-1 to offset any other income. The rest will be carried forward.

Yes, this is the expected behavior.   In order to make contributions to a Health Savings Account, you need to have High Deductible Health Plan Coverage.  TurboTax was considering these contributions to be taxable until you checked that you High Deductible Health Plan.  I used a mock return to confirm that the refund did increase when I checked that the taxpayer had an HDHP.  

My Capital Gain Rate is 15%.  Form 1116 Line 3d Gross foreign source Income is $40,635 and Line 1a is $16,425, so my adjustment factor is .4042.  Why isn’t .4054?   Why is there any adjustment at all if my foreign income is taxed at the higher rate of 15% and my other income is taxed at the lower rate of 12%?

Here are a couple of possibilities that may have caused this.   If you live in a community property state (AZ, CA, ID, LA, NV, NM, TX, WA, or WI) and filed as Married Filing Separately, TurboTax has a "Community Property" interview.   In these states, income and withholding are often split 50/50 between spouses, regardless of whose name is on the W-2. If you entered your spouse's withholding to "take" your half, or if you adjusted your own withholding up to match a 50/50 split, TurboTax puts that extra amount on Line 25c and labels it a "Positive Adjustment" on the background worksheet.  The IRS often flags this because they see a withholding amount that doesn't match any W-2 or 1099 attached to your Social Security number. The second possibility is if you entered information directly into the Tax Payments Worksheet in Forms Mode to add a missing payment or include a tax credit without its own field, it will appear as an "Adjustment. TurboTax uses this line to capture any withholding that isn’t automatically pulled from a W-2 or 1099..

This issue is still going on. I am on my fifth call to customer support, twice being hung up on before ever starting. They have no clue what to do they keep insisting its my card company when its already pre authorized through my credit card company. Spoke to one representative who stated that billing could assist me, no one would even let me speak to billing.   

I am not asking about student loan interest. I need to know if I paid off my childs student loan fully, do I have to file a tax form (I was told) so it counts towards the lifetime gift limit to the child.

Can you please let us know what forms you were trying to import (INT, DIV, etc.)? If you can list the forms per spouse, that would be great!  Once you move from the external import page to TurboTax Desktop, do you see any pop-ups? Would it be possible to share a screenshot (please make sure there is no PII on it)?  When importing from Marcus, are you checking/unchecking any transactions?  How are you importing the forms? Through File Menu >> Import, or within the Interview experience: Income >> INT, DIV, etc.?   @damckinleysr 

You can't deduct clothing that is used for everyday wear.  You can only deduct clothing that is expressly for work purposes.  It's why uniforms are easy to figure out and work clothes are tough.     If the place where you do your training has clothing requirements that mean that they can't be worn outside of work then they are deductible.  But if you can wear them walking down the street they're almost certainly not.   Here's a good article on what work clothes are deductible.

MelindaS1 is assuming that your LLC has more than one member and is treated as a partnership for income tax purposes. That would require filing a separate Form 1065 partnership tax return for the LLC. But you didn't say that it's a multi-member LLC. If, on the other hand, it's a single-member LLC, meaning that you are the only member, the LLC is disregarded for income tax purposes. You report it as business income or self-employment income on your joint personal Form 1040 tax return. The business income and expenses will be reported on Schedule C included in your tax return. You need a Form 1099-R from the 401(K). If you didn't get one, contact the administrator of the 401(k) plan and ask for it. The 1099-R will show the amount that you took out and the amount of tax that was withheld. The 1099-R will also have other information. You enter the information from the 1099-R into TurboTax. You cannot file your tax return without the 1099-R. You can't just enter amounts from your own records.