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Does the IRS website for the status of a federal tax refund indicates the refund was issued? - https://www.irs.gov/refunds   If you requested to have the TurboTax account fees deducted from your federal tax refund, the IRS will send the refund to a third party processor to have the fees and the $40 service charge deducted. The third party processor will deduct the TurboTax fees plus the $40 service charge and then attempt to direct deposit the remaining refund balance into the account that you entered on your tax return. For the status of your tax refund you will need to contact the third party processor, Santa Barbara Tax Product Group, using their website - https://www.sbtpg.com/ Tax Products Group Contact Information - https://help.sbtpg.com/hc/en-us/articles/230084587-Contact-Information Call 1-877-908-7228 Or email - TPG-CSsupport@greendotcorp.com  

See this TurboTax support FAQ for amending a current year tax return - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/amend-federal-tax-return-current-year/L7eS6o1qh_US_en_US?uid=lfunevhk

When you go through the state return, you can enter the information necessary for 1040N-EB on the screen titled Property Tax or other Nebraska Credits.   Scroll down to Purchase of a Nebraska Residence in a Designated Extremely Blighted Area Credit and click Start.      Beginning in 2020, a nonrefundable credit against the Nebraska income tax, in the amount of $5,000 shall be allowed to any individual who purchases a residence during the taxable year if such residence:  * Is located within an area that has been declared an extremely blighted area under section 2 of the act, and  * Is the individual's primary residence, and  * Was not purchased from a family member of the individual or a family member of the individual's spouse.

The $40 was not the Turbo Tax fee.   The $40 was the extra Pay with Refund service charge to have the regular fees deducted from your refund.   And since that didn’t happen you actually saved the extra $40.  How to review your fees https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/charges-and-fees/help/how-do-i-review-my-fees-in-turbotax-online/00/26353

Follow-up thoughts: I'm not sure what (B) cumulative adjustment to basis represents What I recommended previously, is take your $6,000 beginning stepped up basis, adjust this for the applicable lines on the current year K-1 and this becomes your ending tax basis (also your cost basis). I agree with your understanding of the 1099-B When you enter the K-1 information in TT, and you indicate you "sold" the interest, at some point TT will ask for sales price, cost basis (tax basis) and any ordinary income recapture.  This is where the "sale" information should be reported. Don't worry about the capital account information.  TT doesn't really use this As noted previously, the decedent holding period "tacks" on to you, so you would enter this date; which provides you with LT gain or loss. Selling date should conform to the date on the 1099-B.

I'm now confused about total foreign income and quailifying foreign income.   Let's do an example:  I've got a 1099-Div from American Funds that shows $5000 of Ordinary Dividends (Box 1a), $4000 of Qualified Dividends (Box 1b),  $20,000 of Cap Gain Dist (Box 2a), and $1000 of Foreign Tax Paid (Box7).  When I get to the Foreign Tax Credit portion of TTax, (jumping over a couple of screens) Ttax asks "Where Did You Receive Div Income From".  Answer RIC, for registered investment company.  Now I report Income From Foreign Countries and it shows RIC.  I click "Report Income", and it shows the name of the mutual fund.  Click that, and now it asks about Foreign Source Income.  It shows I received $25000 of total income from Am Fds.  How much of this income was from foreign countries.  I go to the Am Fds tax center, and it says the foreign income factor for the fund is 0.5000.   So now, do I report the foreign-source income as 0.5000 X $25,000 (Ord Div's + Cap Gains) = $12,500?  Or is it 0.5000 x $5000 (only Ord Div's) = $2500?   And just to complicate things, what happens to the qualified dividends?  Do they get reported separately?   And if I only used the Ordinary Dividends in this calculation, how/where do I deal with the $20,000 of Cap Gains.   TurboTax is not clear on how this all plays out.  And trying to figure it out from Form 1116 is like trying to understand quantum physics 🙂    My thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this subject.   Fred

TurboTax doesn't have any information regarding your refund once it's filed. Some reasons why your refund is lower than the amount on your tax return: Some other reasons why your refund is lower than the amount on your tax return:   The IRS may have applied part of your refund to other debts you may have, such as child support, student loans, spousal support, or other state debt. The IRS found a mistake in your tax return. For more information, review the TurboTax Help article Why is my refund direct-deposit or check lower than the amount in TurboTax? and  the IRS article Topic no. 203, Reduced refund for information,

If you e-filed using TurboTax, you will receive a notification from TurboTax (email or text) when the IRS has accepted your return.   To check directly with the IRS, visit this IRS webpage to check the status of a refund. If you set up an Online Account for Individuals, you can access your individual account information including balance, payments, tax records and more.  

  You have to access your own account and/or  print it for yourself using exactly the same account and user ID that you used when you prepared the return.    https://myturbotax.intuit.com/   Start a 2025 return online and enter some personal information  so that the menu on the left opens up and lets you access your past year returns.   https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/prior-year-return/help/how-do-i-access-my-prior-year-return/01/27010     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m5y4ch1y   Many people have multiple TT accounts and forget how to access them.  Log out of the account you are in now.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/many-intuit-accounts-turbotax/L9aVfKS1Z_US_en_US?uid=ll5g6zcx Account Recovery   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/many-intuit-accounts-turbotax/L9aVfKS1Z_US_en_US?uid=ll5g6zcx   Or did you use the desktop version of TurboTax?  If so, the files are on your own hard drive or any backup device you used like a flash drive.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/find-last-year-tax-data-file-tax-file-computer/L0XJvPaJr_US_en_US   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/data-systems/find-tax-data-file-mac/L4VNGm33S_US_en_US?uid=m6guhab0   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