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No, as xmasbaby0 and DoninGA mention above, your spouse cannot claim you as a dependent on your tax return, regardless of how much financial support she  provided.    Spouses are not considered dependents by the IRS.    You can file a joint tax return even if you have no income, which will give you a higher standard deduction and eligibility for certain credits.  The standard deduction for married filing jointly is $31,500 for 2025.   General rules for dependents These rules generally apply to all dependents: You must be a U.S. citizen, resident alien or national or a resident of Canada or Mexico You can not be claimed as a dependent on more than one tax return. A dependent can't claim a dependent on their own tax return You can't claim your spouse as a dependent  A dependent must be a qualifying child or qualifying relative   Click here for What's my standard deduction for 2025?   Click here for Dependents.   If you have additional information or questions regarding this, please return to Community and we would be glad to help.

To enter the interest paid on a new vehicle loan, navigate to the Car Loan Interest screen in TurboTax.  Federal > Deductions & Credits > Add more deductions > Cars and Other Things You Own > Car Loan Interest  To qualify for the car loan interest deduction, your vehicle must meet all of these requirements:   You purchased it in 2025.   It isn't leased. It’s a brand new vehicle, not used. Its final assembly was in the U.S.  You are asked to check this requirement by entering your VIN and model year into the VIN decoder provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It's a car, van, SUV, motorcycle, or pickup truck that weighs less than 14,000 pounds. It was purchased for personal use. The interest was not paid to a family member or a business you own.  Your loan must be secured by the vehicle. You can also see the help article below for more information on this new deduction.  Vehicle Loan Interest Deduction  

Sorry to disappoint you...that deduction for cash donations goes into effect next year --- for 2026.   For 2025, all donations still go on Schedule A with other itemized deductions like mortgage interest, property tax, etc.

To enter Car Loan Interest - Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home & Business) Click on Deductions and Credits Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown) Scroll down to Cars and Other Things You Own On Car Loan Interest, click on the start or update button

Are you using the right information on the IRS refund site? You need your filing status, your Social Security number and the exact amount  (line 35a of your 2025 Form 1040) of your federal refund to track your Federal refund:    https://www.irs.gov/refunds  

Once you downloaded TurboTax and entered the License Code, what's not working?  If you can clarify, we'll try to help.  You should be able to return it to Costco if it won't work on your computer (you have Win 10 and need 11, for instance) or exchange for the online version (which doesn't require a license code).       @VeronicaWimer 

If you used desktop software downloaded/installed from a CD to your own computer, then the tax files are stored locally on your own hard drive or any backup device you used like a flash drive.  They are not stored online.  If you cannot recover them due to a hard drive failure, etc. you can get a free transcript from the IRS or for a fee of $30 an actual copy of your tax return. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf

To access your current or prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the User ID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/ Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and on the section Your tax returns & documents.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)   If you used the desktop CD/Download editions installed on your computer, the only copy of your tax data file and any PDF's will be on the computer where the return was created.  TurboTax does not store online any returns completed using the desktop editions.   Go to this IRS website for free transcripts of a federal tax return - https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript   For a fee of $30 you can get a complete federal tax return from the IRS by completing Form 4506 - http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf

The step-by-step procedure referenced appears to actually contain an instruction that creates the error described.  "Select Yes on the Do you have any tax withholding you haven't entered yet? screen. Enter your real estate withholding information under State Withholdings and select Done when finished." If you enter the information here it will raise the flag described in the post.  You don't appear to need to report it here as actually already reported in the California 593 for the purposes of the California return.  What potentially could impact the Federal return is the ACTUAL amount of CA tax paid/due, but that should be fed back from the CA return as a deductible to the Federal return? 

No.   A spouse cannot ever be claimed as a dependent.  You and your spouse should file a joint return.   You can file a joint return even if one spouse had little or no income.  And workman's compensation is not taxable---do not enter it on a return.

You received an email that we cannot see that tells you why your tax return was rejected.   Some rejected returns can be fixed and re-filed.  Some have “un-fixable” reasons for the rejection and have to be mailed instead.    What is the rejection code or rejection message?     If it was rejected for AGI—-your 2024 AGI might not be in the IRS system if you filed late.   Try using zero instead.   If filing with zero is rejected then file again but select the option that you did not file last year.  The IRS does not see that question and it will allow you to e-file with no AGI question.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/agi/help/where-do-i-correct-my-agi-in-turbotax-online/00/26311   If that does not work and you still cannot e-file, then print, sign, and mail your tax return.    

I agree with the tax theory mentioned, which is that the SALT cap shouldn't limit a Schedule C deduction. This occurs because TurboTax evaluates the combined form entries against the SALT limit.    I've found that entering the full property tax amount on two separate Forms 8829 triggers an error on Line 11b that prevents the return from being e-filed. I am not sure of your exact tax situation, but if you have total property tax over the SALT limit (in my previous example, I just used 40,000 as an example), you can split the deduction as I explained and enter the 'excess' portion for each business in the box Excess real estate taxes.   @marc1974