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I e-filed the federal return.  I thought I had one free state e-file.  I clicked on e-file state.  When TT was going to charge me $25, I did not complete the e-file.  I printed the state return to file by mail but there is no payment voucher.  When I try to go back, I click on "don't efile.  I'll do it later"  I hit continue.  The next screen says "nothing was selected to e-file.  To e-file you need to select something to e-file on the prior screen".  I hit the back button but I don't have a selection to make. Thanks @MarilynG1 

Q.  Am I just out of luck to use “loop hole” available to claim an education credit? A.  No.  On your tax return, enter the 1098-T with $4000 in box 1 and box 5 blank*.  Enter no other numbers. On his return, you enter 21,000 in box 1 and $40,000 in box 5.   Much of his 1099-Q earnings are going to have to be taxable. The numbers are too big to just shift to taxable scholarship.   $17,000 of his scholarship is now taxable scholarship (40,000 -25,000 -2000 +4000). That's already enough to be taxable and puts him in the kiddie tax bracket.  I'm pretty sure the taxable amount of the 529 earnings will remain close to the same**. But, a little more info might help confirm that.  What is the amount in box 2 (earnings) of the 1099-Q?  What other income does the student have and from what sources (jobs or something else, e.g. interest)?    *The 1098-T is only an informational document. The numbers on it are not required to be entered onto your tax return. However receipt of a 1098-T frequently means you are either eligible for a tuition credit or possibly your student has taxable scholarship income.  If you claim the tuition credit, you do need to report that you got one. You claim the tuition credit, and/or report scholarship income, based on your own financial records, not the 1098-T.  Th easiest way is to just change the numbers in boxes 1& 5 to what your records show. The 1098-T that you enter in TT is not sent to the IRS.   ** He has only $12,000 of qualified expenses for the 1099-Q. It's probably best to use the $2000 of books/computers for the AOTC & scholarship, not the 1099-Q.  12,000 / 39,000 = 30.77% of the earnings are tax free. 69.23% of the box 2 amount is taxable.    

If the deceased had a TurboTax account, you can use that same account to prepare their final return and change the email address to yours in Account Details.  If not, you can set up a new account for them and use your email address in the Account Details so you'll get notifications.  If you do this, don't use your Email address as a User ID, make a new one for them.   Sorry for your loss.   @user17722015127       

@ dogpoint wrote: If there are multiple multiple deleted prior years after updating Turbo Tax there is a problem with the application. I save my returns to my local machine but, they are gone as well. Are the prior year returns on the Intuit Turno Tax servers somewhere? I can't tell for sure what you normally used to prepare the prior year returns.   Did you use Online TurboTax, if so we can tell you should be able to find past online returns.   "I save my returns to my local machine but they are gone as well."        What does the "as well" mean?  Does that imply that you used Online TurboTax and saved a copy on you system?   Did you save PDFs or tax data files?    If PDFs, search your entire system for files ending in *.PDF , or if tax data files, search for any file ending in *.taxYYYY  (YYYY is the year) including any cloud storage such as OneDrive, etc. that you might have used.   In any case, if you used Online TurboTax we should be able to tell you how to find them once we understand your situation.

uh oh this may ruin your Friday night but unfortunately that looks correct to me - if you have a pre-tax IRA balance, the Roth conversion is only non-taxable based on the ratio of your basis (the contribution) to the total IRA balance.  So for 2025 your $6600 contribution is only $29 tax free, $6571 is taxable this year (i.e. this is coming from your pre-tax IRA money), and the remaining $6571 from your contribution is carried forward as basis for the lifetime of the IRA.  Every distribution/conversion you do will kick out a portion of that basis as non-taxable for the life of the IRA balance.   I am not sure all the rules about reversing this, but tagging the resident experts... @dmertz @mesquitebean @VolvoGirl @Mike9241 @DoninGA 

Note that we don't have access to the divorce decree, which might affect what's suggested.  Best might be to consult with a tax pro. Both of you. The same pro so items are coordinated   For the property she got from you, you would need to supply her with the depreciation you've taken and any suspended losses on the property. They are now hers. She would have to do the same for the property you got bcuase its now yours. a) For property surrendered, you would take your normal depreciation prorated for the portion of the year you were married  b) for the property you owned that was not surrendered you would take the depreciation for the full year c) for the property you received you would enter her cost basis, but not the depreciation she took. This will need to be done next year so the proper depreciation is computed for this year. see below  in other words if her cost was 275,000 and you were divorced for the last 200 days of 2025 you would expect her to take 275000/27.5*165/365 = ~ 4521 you would expect to get 275000/27.5*200/365 ~ 5479 for you to get the right deprection you would probably have to adjust business use to 200/365 =54.79% and f Say she took 59583 in depreciation through 12/31/2024 + the 4521 for the first 165 days in 2025 total 64104. You enter this as prior depreciation with 100% business using the original acquisition date (proper) TurboTax will compute your share of depreciation as 9356 (wrong)  let say you now change business uses to 54.79%. TurboTax now comuted deprecition as 3840 (also wrong)   this is becuase there is no way to tell Turbotax that  4521 of depreecition was already taken for 2025     TurboTax's method of computing depreciation is to take cost            1. General Rule for Property Transfers Between Spouses or Incident to Divorce No Gain or Loss Recognized: When property is transferred between spouses or incident to divorce, no gain or loss is recognized for tax purposes. The recipient spouse generally takes the same basis in the property as the transferring spouse had before the transfer. This is referred to as a "carryover basis." Relevant Regulation: IRC Section 1041 governs the treatment of property transfers between spouses or incident to divorce. It ensures that such transfers are treated as non-taxable events. Source: 26 CFR § 1.1041-1T - Treatment of transfer of property between spouses or incident to divorce 2. Carryover Basis Definition: The basis of the property in the hands of the recipient spouse is the same as it was in the hands of the transferring spouse. This means the recipient spouse inherits the original cost basis and any adjustments (e.g., depreciation or improvements) made by the transferring spouse.   this means that if the property was transferred pursuant to the divorce, no gain or loss is recognized, which is what I assume happened    Your basis in the property you now own 100% is your original share of the cost and deprecition and her share of the cost and depreciation she took. Thus your cost for the rest of the year is 100% and prior year depreciation is 100% of all depreciation taken by both of you.    the problm with TutboTax is properly computing what you should be entitled to in 2025 for depreciation. before the effective date of the divorce, nothing changes, but after that, I don't think TurboTax can provide a correct computation. You may have to override, which would require paper filing.  You also take over any suspended losses she had on the property.       you alsoo get her suspended losses on   

This error usually indicates a corrupted temporary PDF file or a conflict with your PDF viewer. To fix it, restart your computer, ensure Adobe Acrobat is updated as your default PDF reader, or select "Save as PDF" instead of opening it directly. You can also try re-generating the PDF in the TurboTax Print Center.    @jgiambalvo 

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 March 4.  The date is subject to change, so check on 3-4 to see if it is ready.   Before that, do not change anything at all on your return.

@nconsolacion wrote: I am not a senior. I do not know why the senior Tax credit on my 2025 Tax Verify your birth date that you entered in the MY INFO section is correct.  Perhaps you mistyped or reversed some digits, etc.

But the Easy Form page says:       "Net capital gains" in the title of the page      "Enter your net capital gain/loss amounts for all periods through August 31, 2025 (even if 0)."      But then for "Qualified dividends" it only the total amount of the Qualified dividends appear in the box for 1/1/2025 to 12/31/2025.   There is not a place to enter the Net capital gains as in previous years.   As I mentioned, I could get around this by going into Form 2210 Schedule AI and entering the correct amount on the Capital Gains Tax Computation Smart Worksheet line B which comes from Schedule D line 15 and entering the correct amount on the same worksheet line E which comes from 1040 line 3a.    What I am saying is that the Easy Form does not actually show the Net capital gains amount, it just shows the Qualified Dividends even though the title of the Easy Form page is Net capital gains.