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I might suggest clarifying this. If you are submitting specifically for a circuit panel credit, then yes, you would have to provide a QMID (which you won't get because no companies have them yet). But, if you are submitting only for a heat pump, the TurboTax form requires that you fill in the QMID for a circuit panel even if you aren't submitting for that credit. In the paper form, you could simply skip over that section.

To be a QCD, your wife is required to have been age 70½ or over at the time of the distribution.  If your wife was under age 70½, the contribution is not permitted to be excluded from AGI and can only be claimed on Schedule A.  If TurboTax does not offer the option to report this as a QCD, either the distribution was not reported as being from an IRA (IRA/SEP/SIMPLE box was not marked on the Form 1099-R) or your wife's date of birth entered into 2025 TurboTax is after June 30, 1955, indicating that she could not have reached age 70½ by the end of the year.

@justinj2000  Sorry, I meant 1098-T, not 1098-Q.  And follow-up: I deleted the 1098-T after I initially added it, and still no errors - good news!  The bad news, it still shows the dependent student as both college & high school, even though all my entries state high school only. Ugh!

Gambling losses are not deductible unless you have gambling winnings you are reporting.  Then they are only deductible up to your winnings.  If you had gambling winnings, you can report them by selecting the following: Federal Income Prizes, Awards, and Gambling Winnings under Less Common Income   For 2025, car loan interest deduction is capped at $10,000.  This is an above the line deduction, not a credit meaning it will lower your AGI and taxable income.  It will not be an amount that is refunded to you, but it could result in a refund by lowering your taxable income.  Since you have $0 income, you would not be able to claim this deduction.    If your only income in 2023 was as an employee with a W-2 where you earned $800, you would likely not need to file a tax return for 2023, unless they withheld taxes and you are filing to get a refund of the money they withheld and/or possibly claim the Earned Income Tax Credit.  If you are filing for a refund, then you have up to 3 years from the time the return was due  to file to claim the refund.  So, for 2023 tax year, you would have until April of 2027 to file the return to claim the refund.  You can file that return by downloading TurboTax 2023.     

Does your 1099-R have an amount in box 16 - State Distribution?  If you have an amount on line 14 of your 1099-R you must enter an amount for line 16 that is at least as much as line 14.  If line 16 is blank, then enter the amount on line 1, unless there is an amount on line 2a, in which case use the 2a amount.  

Select Multiple States.   When you click on a link in TurboTax Desktop, a new TurboTax window (not an internet browser) should pop up - On Demand Tax Guidance with the following:   The dividends/interest reported here won't be taxed on your federal return. However, most states tax dividends/interest paid by another state.   You can find the state on more detailed documents (like supplemental forms) from your financial institution/dividend payer. Contact them if it's not on your forms.   You can select Multiple States from the dropdown if you:   Live in a state with no income tax (AK, FL, NV, SD, TN, TX, WA, WY) Live where exempt-interest dividends from other states aren't taxed (DC, IN) Have only a small amount of exempt-interest dividends and aren't concerned with extra state tax Your state will tax these dividends or interest if you don't live in an area listed above

Yes, if you owe past-due child support, your entire refund can be withheld through the Treasury Offset Program, even if you claim dependents.   However, if part of the refund belongs to your spouse, you can file Form 8379 (Injured Spouse Allocation) to have her portion refunded to her.

He must have turned 73.  Now he has a RMD requirement for all his IRA and 401k accounts.  For a pension, it's whatever they send you. Say all of it is the RMD. If you have a RMD requirement it will ask you if it is the RMD. Say yes and enter the amount as the RMD amount. The pension doesn't need to calculate any RMD. Anything your pension pays you is considered to be the RMD. Traditional pensions automatically fulfill the rules of an RMD. So just enter the same amount in box 1 for the RMD for each 1099R.