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Even though it isn't listed as an option in the dropdown menu, you may still enter this manually in your return. Here is how.   Go to Federal -> Deductions & Credits. Scroll down to Other Deductions and Credits and select Casualties and Thefts. When it asks for the event, choose "Other" or "Manual Entry" if available. Description: Enter "California, Eaton Fire (January 2025)". Enter Fema code DR-4856-CA when it asks for it. Property Description: Enter "Food/Contents." Cost: Enter what you originally paid for the food. Fair Market Value (FMV). Should be the same as the cost. Fair Market Value (FMV) After: Enter $0 (since the food was lost).

I'm experiencing the same issue. Medicare tax withheld is .01 different from .0145 times income, so the software appears to be rounding this .01 difference to 1 dollar and including the form 8959 unnecessarily. Should this form really be included to reconcile .01? It seems like I'm claiming I'm owed a dollar when I'm not.

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

For regular Pension payments...the total IS the RMD.   There is an RMD for these, but you just have no control over it.....BUT, the pension provider is the one responsible for following IRS pension rules.   The TTX software starts asking this on any 1099-R once you now reach age 73. _________________

Mortgage interest is only allowed on up to $750,000 in home debt.  By entering both of the 1098s the system believed you had two separate homes that added up to more than that 750K.     You have two ways to handle it.  The easiest is to go in and change the amount in box 2 of the first 1098 (the one before the refinance) to zero.  This is correct because the mortgage debt has all been moved to the new refinanced mortgage.   The second option is to delete one of the 1098s and add the numbers from both of them together.  So box 1 has the total amount from both 1098s.  Box 2 would only have the amount from the refinanced mortgage at the end of the year.    Either one of those will solve the problem for you.

Form 4547 was approved by the IRS in early January.  Once approved, it does take time for the updates to be rolled out in tax software programs.  At present we are still awaiting word about the availability of this form in TurboTax.   If you enter the information in about a child born in 2025, once you get to a screen that says "[name] qualifies as your dependent", down lower it will state "[name] is eligible for $1000!".  Click on the See details to get more information about getting the $1,000.    The accounts do not officially get funded with $1,000 until July 4, 2026.  And Form 4547 does not need to be filed with a tax return in order to open a Trump Account.  More information about Trump Accounts can be found here

Adjust your entry to account for the amount carrying over from Schedule E. In other words, subtract the Schedule E portion from the adjustment you calculated so that the final deduction amount for Schedule A is correct.

I think you mean you want to use the state and local tax deduction since it is higher than the sales tax deduction, but TurboTax gives you the sales tax deduction. You should go back and edit your sales tax entries and on the screen that says Places you lived, delete the state referenced there. You don't need to enter the sales tax since you are deducting the state and local tax.   Also, on the screen in that section that says Let's find your biggest deduction, make sure you check the entry for State and Local tax deduction.

@DebraNoice    Disagree....look at and use Part V of the actual IRS Schedule 1-A, and you'll see reduction is for both spouses $6000, i.e. in your example, $300 is subtracted from each spouses $6000 for a 12,000 - 600 result (if both are age 65+}   Forms and Pubs Index Search | Internal Revenue Service _________________ @VolvoGirl  's calculation spreadsheet follows the  IRS's Sched 1-A calc.  

Kansas starts with your Federal Adjusted Gross Income.  If your Social Security payments are not included in your Federal Adjusted Gross Income, there may not be an adjustment (or full adjustment) on your state return.    Please look at your Federal Form 1040 Line 6b for the taxable portion of Social Security on your Federal return and line 11a for your Adjusted Gross Income.