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"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     FROM THE IRS WHERE’S MY REFUND SITE: https://www.irs.gov/wheres-my-refund How it works Where's My Refund shows your refund status: Return Received – We received your return and are processing it. Refund Approved – We approved your refund and are preparing to issue it by the date shown. Refund Sent – We sent the refund to your bank or to you in the mail. It may take 5 days for it to show in your bank account or several weeks for your check to arrive in the mail.  

Thanks for replying. I guess I should clarify that I'm the grandparent, rather than student or parent, and I received the 529 withdrawal and then paid the college. I have a 1098-Q for the withdrawal and have a detailed invoice and a payment receipt from the college. Would I still enter the information in the 1098-T section since I wouldn't receive one from the college? Thanks again.

TurboTax does not give a reason why it shows that a vehicle does not qualify. Only later after I got that message did I find that I had mistakenly entered one digit wrong on my vehicle identification number. Otherwise my vehicle did meet all of the IRS criteria and when I corrected that digit, TurboTax accepted my information.

You absolutely can.  You would amend your 2024 tax return and include a form 2210 and annualize your income using the TurboTax system tools.   Then you can file that amended return and pay the penalties shown (which should be less than the ones computed by the IRS) and you'll be all set.   If you want to be extra cautious, and pre-empt a possible future letter from the IRS, you can write a return letter to the address on your notice including a copy of the 2210 and letting them know an amended return has been filed.

Due to system updates and recent tax law changes, returns including foreign tax credit and/or Form 1116 should not be filed at this time. The expected date of availability is 2/27/2026, Friday. On or about that date, you will be able to complete and e-file your tax returns. We appreciate your patience while this is resolved. 

To file a return for a prior tax year  If you need to prepare a return for 2022, 2023, or 2024  you can purchase and download desktop software to do it, then print, sign,  and mail the return(s) https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/past-years-products/ You may also want to explore purchasing the software from various retailers such as Amazon, Costco, Best Buy, Walmart, Sam’s, etc.

The farm name is your name and the farm ID is your social security number (SSN). No special name or number are required. Report the income and expenses as normal on one Schedule F for all of the activities. See the information below for the CRP income as well.   These  conservation reserve program payments (CRPs) are taxable and depending on your specific circumstances may have to be reported on Schedule F, even though you are not operating a farm at this time. See the information here and at the IRS link. Unless the taxpayer is receiving Social Security retirement or disability benefits, CRP “annual rental payments” are includible in net income from self-employment subject to self-employment tax. Note: Payments that are for the permanent retirement of cropland base and allotment history are not includible in net income from self-employment subject to self-employment tax because they are for the sale of section 1231 property or a capital asset.  IRS CRP Payments and Self Employment Tax If you are receiving social security or disability you can report the income as follows (assumes it is not permanent retirement of the property).  Other Miscellaneous Income: Sign into your TurboTax Online account Go to Tax Home (left panel)  Wages and Income  section Scroll to  Less Common Income > Select  Miscellaneous Income, 1099-A, 1099-C Select Other reportable Income > Enter a description (----) and the amount If you are not receiving social security or disability at this time report it on Schedule F using the link below. What is Schedule F: Profit or Loss from Farming Select Wages and Income > Scroll to Rentals, Royalties, and Farm > Select Farm Income and Farm Rental Select 'I received agricultural payments on a 1099-MISC or 1099-G for my farm rental' as the income type Continue to enter your 1099-G completing the appropriate boxes for your income If the amount is greater than $400 there will be self employment tax calculated and included on your tax return. Please update if you have additional questions and we will help.   @daisycow72 

I tried this method and it does correctly add the tax credit as state taxes paid to the Federal Schedule A (Line 5a) as well as correctly adjust the AZ Schedule A (AZ Schedule A lines 7 & 10).  Unfortunately, Turbotax believes the State Withholding that I entered is really withholding and is incorrectly stating that I had state income tax withheld (AZ form 140, Line 53).  This results in receiving both the state tax credit (AZ form 140 line 59) as well as the withholding.  This is incorrect as it isn't state tax that was withheld.  It appears to me that entering the tax credit as "Withholding not already entered on a W2" does not work correctly.   I need a method to: 1.  Add the tax credit to the federal return as state taxes paid that will flow to my Federal Schedule A since I am itemizing my Federal (and State) returns. 2. Adjust my total itemized deductions from Federal Schedule A to reduce it by the state taxes paid on the AZ Schedule A.  3. Not include any state tax withheld on my state return.   The method you provided only addresses steps 1 & 2.  I need a method to accomplish all three steps   Ken

Q. Only $1800 are out of pocket, so That's all I can use for AOTC, right? A. No. It does not matter what money was actually used to to pay what.  You are allowed to allocate all the tuition & fees expenses to the AOTC  (and away from the  scholarship; essentially allocating R&B to scholarship).   A. You are saying to create my own numbers of qualified expenses and non-qualified expenses for 1098-T. Q. Yes. But, "allocate", not "create".   You have $3100 of qualified expenses. They can all be allocated to the AOTC (unless the scholarship is restricted to paying tuition). I have revised/corrected my answer above to: The parent enters the 1098-T with $3100 in box 1 and box 5 blank.  The student enters the 1098-T with 0 in box 1 and $5303 (the taxable amount of the scholarship, since there is no longer any tuition to allocate to the scholarship).  If the program asks (it may or may not) how much of the scholarship was used for R&B, answer $5303.   Q. So when TT asks what part of the scholarships covered room and board, do I show the full $4000 or only part that was paid by scholarships ($2500 or so)?  A. You show the amount you are allocating to room and board, $5303.  To make some of the scholarship taxable, you may have to tell TT how much you want taxable by saying it was used for (actually "allocated to") room &board. Note the wording at that screen “or other expenses”. You didn’t have to literally use the scholarship for R&B.

I could not get import to work for Fidelity or Schwab.  I am using TT Premier and Edge browser.  I found that changing this in Edge Settings, fixed the issue.  Change this setting to "Allow" mine was "Default"   Internet Explorer compatibility - 1 result   Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode (IE mode)   When browsing in Microsoft Edge, if a site requires Internet Explorer for compatibility, you can choose to reload it in Internet Explorer mode         Internet Explorer mode pages     These pages will open in Internet Explorer mode for 30 days from the date you add the page. No pages have been added to the Internet Explorer mode list yet         Internet Options

@Hil555 wrote: Resolved? You didn't provide a solution.  There are replacements for ItsDeductible and Intuit plans to include a tool for use with TurboTax to determine the FMV of donated items. That's the extent of it at this point.