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I'm completing my 2025 return with TurboTax online.  My Schwab 1099-DIV reports Box 1a Total Ordinary Dividends $23,110.94 Box 1b Qualified Dividends $22,872.82 Box 2a Total Capital Gains $0.00 Box 7 foreign Tax Paid $1,205.42 Because I reported $1,205.42 in foreign Tax Paid, turbotax instructs me to "...enter the portion of the $23,263.04 dividends and distributions that was from a foreign country or U.S. possession."  I received $9,348.62 in foreign dividends and I entered that into turbotax.  But when turbotax does my Federal Review, it finds a problem here and tells me I need to review that entry.  When I review it, turbotax says, this entry "should not be larger than the dividends and capital gains reported on this Form 1099-DIV ($0.00) ."  I don't understand why it is flagging this as an error.  Although I did not have any capital gains on this 1099-DIV, I did have over $23,000 in dividends.  I tried zeroing out this entry ($0.00 of Foreign Dividends), which is not true but it passes the turbotax Federal Review.  But when I do that I lose $941 from my Federal Refund.  Why is turbotax flagging the $9,349 of Foreign Dividends as an error? What do I need to do to enter the foreign dividends and regain the $941 in my Federal Refund?

Hello, I recently filed my deceased mother's 2025 Federal taxes using Turbo Tax Premier which confirmed she was to receive a refund. I submitted the taxes including a Form 1310 so the refund would be sent to me in my account. Soon after filing I received a 4883C letter in the mail requiring more information before a refund would be processed. I went to the local IRS office with all of the information requested on the letter along with a copy of my mother's notarized will drawn up by her attorney. Since I was the only child of my parents (who were now both deceased), the will was set up to not go through probate. I was designated in the will as the executor/administrator. Up until now that was not a problem settling bills or acquiring her assets. The woman at the IRS office though is saying that I will not be able to receive a refund unless I get a court document confirming me as executor (essentially going through probate) and to fill out a Form 56 along with the Form 1310 I already signed. The person at the office was looking up the information to see if she had it correct and she seemed satisfied with her judgment, so I left not sure if it was 100% correct based on her looking up information on the fly. So I called the 1-800 IRS number shown on the letter I received. After explaining everything to the woman on the phone about the will and how it was set up (without a need to go through probate), she told me that to prove my identity, all I would just need to do is fax IRS a copy of the will showing me as executor, as well as the Form 56 and also a death certificate. At that point, my identity would be accepted. So I have 2 different opinions from 2 different people at IRS and I'm wondering how to proceed. If anyone can provide insight, I'd appreciate it. 

My utah state witholding number is showing as wrong. I've checked it 10+ times, and it is listed accurately in my W2 information, but when I go to file it still does not let me through. When it shows me what is wrong, it shows me the old number before I changed it. I cannot get this to update in file submission.  I have changed the last three numbers to lowercase, cleared my cache, changed my browser, deleted and retyped all my information manually twice, and it still wont let me submit. It even won't let me file by mail. Seems like this has been an ongoing issue, but I've filed with turbotax for 4 years and never had an issue until now. If this is an ongoing issue, then I wonder why the turbotax team has not fixed it yet? I'm not willing to pay to talk to a real person and not an AI just because of an issue with turbotax's own system. If anyone has anything I haven't tried yet, please let me know. At this point, I've been doing this for 3 hours and I'll change to another tax company if anyone has an suggestions.