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Married.  Married filing Separately.  Spouse can be claimed as a dependent on someone else's taxes.  That is our status.  Are you telling me that under that circumstance box 12a for "Your spouse as a dependent" is irrelevant?  Thanks.

Thank you. Creating a second "dummy" 1099-DIV does work, but it also results in two lines on the federal Schedule B, neither of which matches the amount on the 1099-DIV that the IRS received. (The total is correct, of course.) Does that not increase the risk of getting flagged?

As the car was nine years old at the time you bought it, it was heavily depreciated at the time you bought it and likely didn't lose a lot of value from the date you bought it in 2022 to when your first started to use it for business in March of 2023.  Because of this, you could just use the purchase price of the vehicle when you bought it as the fair market value for when you first started using it for business.

To calculate estimated taxes and prepare Form 1040-ES:   Log into TurboTax Under Federal Deductions & Credits, Scroll to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid section, and  Select Start or Revisit next to Estimated Tax Payments.

This was very likely caused by an update after 2/28/2026 because my fed review turned up NO errors UNTIL i received a late k-1 loss and went back to see if my tax would decrease.  The fed review then brought me to the Person On The Return" worksheet and Enrollmentstatus must be entered".   The Stoopid part is the error is on the form is for YOUR RECORDS ONLY!  Cmon Intuit, test your software updates before distributing!!  Customer service cant fix the program so hope and pray the feedback gets to a programmer somehow...

If you're filing as Married Filing Separately, it doesn't matter tax-wise if your Spouse is claimed by someone else, so TurboTax may have not checked that box for you.  If this doesn't apply to you, let us know and we'll try to help.   @swissmann 

Your taxable social security benefits cannot be more than 85% of your total social security benefits. The total social security benefits from 2024 are listed on line B of the worksheet. Line D list the taxable benefits associated with the amount on line B. You must have $0 in line B, so 85% of $0 equals $0. You need to list an amount in box B for the social security benefits from 2024.

Is my face red! Sorry everyone. After doing more digging I determined that the supposed error is not an error at all.  The difference I was seeing was due to how, on one of the 1099Rs, the Simplified  Method calculates Line 14, Taxable Pension for the year. That amount is slightly smaller than the amount appearing in Box 2a of the 1099R. I apologize for any confusion I may have  caused.

To check the status of your 2019–2021 federal tax returns, the most direct method is to log in to your IRS Online Account. This will give you access to your tax records.  You may have to contact the IRS if you didn't get a refund.

If it is asking if your employer provided on site child care, this would mean child care that was on the facility grounds.  So if your kids are not going to daycare on the facility campus, you would say no. 

You can enter this adjustment using Forms Mode in TurboTax Desktop. This entry isn't available using the step-by-step interview.   Open your return and click the Forms icon in the TurboTax header.  In the list of Forms in My Return on the left, scroll down to Virginia Individual and look for Activity Wks (name on K-1).  Click the form name to open it in the large window.  Scroll down to Part II Line 2 and enter the depreciation adjustment from the Virginia K-1. Click Step-by-Step in the header to return to the main screens.   If you are using TurboTax Online, see How do I switch from TurboTax Online to the TurboTax software?

Are you entering the 1099R in  the right place?  I entered box 5 on mine.   Enter a 1099R under Federal Taxes Wages & Income Then scroll way down to Retirement Plans and Social Security Then IRA, 401(k), Pension Plan Withdrawals (1099-R) – Click Start

The reason you owed North Carolina income tax may be due to not having had enough NC tax withheld from your wages.    If you W-2 did not have NC tax withholding shown in Boxes 15 and 17 or did not have enough tax withheld to cover the wages you earned when you lived in NC, that could result in you owing income tax to NC for 2025.