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The "Do It Yourself Premium" online software instructions are terrible for helping you find where to enter Federal and State Tax Estimated Payments already made.  I stumbled across the Federal Section and then the instructions make all kinds of erroneous statements on how to find the State section.  Here is how I finally found it:   Under Federal, Click the "Deductions & Credits" drop down menu. Select the bottom choice of "Deductions and credits summary" This will cause a "Your tax breaks" table to pop up. Scroll down past this table, past the Search bar, past the greyed out section of the page with "Your Home", "You and Your Family" and about five other things. Now you'll see "Estimated tax payments".  Select Start even if you've already started it somewhere else and finally you'll see what you need for Federal Estimated Taxes and State Estimated Taxes.   Why did it have to be this hard and the Turbo Tax instructions so bad? .

Try deleting form 8453 and the Charitable Donation worksheets from your return.  Close TurboTax and re-open it, and perform a Manual Update and re-enter your donations. Updates are added every Friday, and this issue has been resolved.   I would also suggest that you Enable LAN in the icon to the left of the URL address in your browser.  Maybe your updates are being blocked.   @rick466 

What is the entire exact error message that you are getting? (I'm sure it doesn't say "Box 1 is wrong.") When do you get the message? Is it on the screen where you enter the box 1 amount, or somewhere after that? Is it in Smart Check?  

100% agree with you!!  I am entering a 1099-B for a CD sale and have the same issue.  What the heck?  Why is the solution to "just call it a stock sale"?   And someone else saying to enter it as a 1099-S...get it together TurboTax!!!

You need the file ending in .tax2024 to transfer into this year.  It should be in Documents in a Turbo Tax subfolder.  Or Search your computer for all files ending in .tax or .tax2024.   And check the Recycle Bin.  The PDF file should be saved there too.  If you have Windows 10 check the OneDrive.  Or to Drop Box.  Check your backups.  Could it be under a different user on your computer?      If you don't have the main .tax file you might have one that starts with a Tilde sign ~ like  "~your name.tax2024”  That file is if your computer crashes or your real file gets lost or deleted or corrupt so you can restore it. Find your Tax file in Windows https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-data-file/help/find-your-tax-data-file-tax-file-in-windows/00/25926   Here's an idea.  Do you still have 2024 installed?  Try opening 2024 program and see if you can get your 2024 return to show up in it.  Go to FILE -  OPEN.  See if it is the right one.  Then save it again with a name and place you can find.  Go to File - Save As.  

If you used the Summary Method to report, you may have to mail your 1099-B if you have certain types of transactions.  TurboTax prints the 8453 as a mailing cover sheet, and Form 8949.   "If you're e-filing, you only need to mail the IRS a copy of your 8949 (along with Form 8453) if you entered sales section totals for one or more sales categories (instead of each individual sale) and one of the following is true: The sales category for one or more summaries is something other than box A (short-term covered) or box D (long-term covered), or The box A or box D summary includes adjustments (typically listed in boxes 1f or 1g on your broker statement)   @Ambilobe   

Same issue failed twice.  This last time I waited until 2/26, ran the update, double checked - no additional updates.   Rechecked for any errors, submitted ...  Fail again.   At first turbotax would not even import last years tax file because of a software bug. Frustrating that I paid nearly $100 for software that doesn't work.

I assume the Trust is a complex trust, since simple trusts do not typically distribute capital gains.  Make sure in the General Information section you have indicated that the trust is a complex trust.  Next,:   Go to the FEDERAL TAXES tab. Select Distributions. Mark the button for "Distribution Amounts" and click Continue. Enter the distribution amounts for each beneficiary by tier. First Tier is income required to be distributed such as interest and dividends.  Second Tier is any distribution that is not Tier 1, such as capital gains or principal.