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You can check on the Massachusetts Depertment of Revenue website at Check the status of your Personal Income Tax refund.   You need to enter: Tax year of the refund Your Social Security number (SSN) or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) Refund amount. You can also call them at (617) 887-6367.  

The Form 1099-B would report the sale of an investment. It may have been from a company merger, stock split or something else that you were not directly involved with. You will have to determine what security is involved and then determine if you owned it for more than one year before 2025. If so, any date you chose in 2025 would give you the correct long-term gain treatment of a security held more than one year before you disposed of it. If you held it around one year, then you would need to do some research to find out when exactly the disposition took place, as the exact date would matter.

It depends. What do you mean by he is supporting himself, but living with you?  If he supports himself, then he is not considered your dependent so you cannot claim him on your taxes.  In order to claim your child, as a qualifying child, they cannot provide over half of their own support.  If they are a qualifying relative, you would have to provide over half of their support.  If your child is supporting himself, then you would not be able to claim him.    Support includes, housing, food, clothing, education, transportation, medical and utilities.  So if he is not paying you to live in your house, then it is possible that he is not supporting himself.  You can use this worksheet to determine if he is providing over half of his own support or not.    The following criteria must be met to claim someone as a qualifying child: Your child (including adopted and foster children), your sibling, or a descendent of any of them. Age 18 or younger at the end of the tax year OR under 24 (and younger than you and your spouse) if they are a full-time student or any age if they are totally and permanently disabled Lived with you for more than 6 months during the tax year They did not provide more than half of their own support (social security does not count) They did not file a joint return, unless it was to claim a refund   To claim someone as a Qualifying Relative, they must be: Your child ( including step children, adoptive children and foster children) or a descendent of them Your sibling (including half siblings) or a child of your sibling or a sibling-in-law Your parent or grandparents, including step parents and in laws Any other person that lived with you for the entire tax year Not a qualifying child of another taxpayer Someone that you provided over half of their support for during the tax year Has less than $5,200 in income (not counting social security)

1. No, there isn't a form.  2. You will need to keep your own records. Your record keeping should include things like: add a fence, plant a garden, build a porch, etc as all these costs add to the basis of the property, for when it is sold.  3. Yes, reimbursed expenses are nontaxable.  Let's talk about the rent.  If your daughter is reimbursing you each month for actual out of pocket costs like utility bills and property tax it could be a nontaxable reimbursement. This is the offset David mentions above. If your daughter is paying a flat rate each month, it is rent and should show on Sch a line 8z. Label it rent from family member for personal use property. Prior to 2018, insurance, repairs, utilities, etc were deductible as an itemized deduction for this situation.    One  point of caution: since you are charging below market value, the IRS views this as foregone rent. As long as the difference between fair market value and what she pays is less that the gift tax limit, there is no need to file a gift tax return. For 2025, the first $19,000 given to each recipient is excluded from gift tax. Since your daughter is married, that would be $19,000 to your daughter and another  $19,000 to her spouse. 

The Second Lowest Cost Silver Plan (SLCSP) premium in column B of your form 1095-A is incorrect if:   Part III, Column B has a “0” or is blank for any month someone in your household had the Marketplace plan You had changes in your household that you didn’t tell the Marketplace about — like having a baby, moving, getting married or divorced, or losing a dependent   If either applies to you, you’ll use the government's tax tool to get the premium for your second lowest cost Silver plan and fill that cost in column B of form 1095-A. Failure to do this will result in a wrong calculation of the premium tax credit.

Yes if you are filing Schedule C for self employment income.   Enter materials and parts under Supplies.  Or you can enter them under Other Miscellaneous Expenses on Schedule C lPart V Other Expenses line 48.     You can enter 1099NEC or cash Self Employment Income into Online Deluxe  but if you have any expenses you will have to upgrade to the Premium version or use any of the Desktop programs.   Where to enter expenses in the Online Premium version https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/enter-self-employment-business-expenses-like-home/L1k6HJY4A_US_en_US

The SS 1099 lists each of the amounts paid in 2025 for years 2024 - 2021. I can enter these in Turbo Tax and provide and enter the additional AGI and taxable SS amounts requested for those tax years. The problem is there is another amount listed, $1,049.00, described as “Paid in 2025 for Other Tax Years”. TurboTax doesn’t seem to allow an entry unless it is for one specific year. How can I enter this amount covering multiple years? Enter the $1,049.00 as if it relates to 2020?