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@SteamTrain wrote:  For your tax return, you might end up having to re-enter the donations manually. That's true; there's nothing that has indicated the program will support importing a .csv for charitable donations.

Sounds like you have self-employment income which you are required to enter on your federal return.  Information flows from your federal return to your state return.   If you received actual money for the artwork, why would you expect it to be non-taxable or not count as income?  

Maybe you are waiting for some forms.  Click Review to see if you are missing some forms needed in order to e-file.   Many federal and state forms are not yet available.  Check here for form availability. The dates are subject to change.   Tax form availability tool     Be patient.    IF you e-file now, your return will go into “pending” until the IRS starts to accept/reject returns in late January. You cannot make any changes while the return is on the server. The IRS will start to accept/reject 2025 e-files on January 26.   And….a state return cannot be accepted until after the IRS accepts your federal return.

If you are self employed you  are filing schedule C.  You don't need a 1099 to report y our income.  How are you adding your SE income?   Add tips the same way.   Should be entered as Other self employment income or as Cash or General income. You don't need to get a 1099MISC, 1099NEC or 1099K. Even if you did you can enter all your income as Cash. Only the total goes to schedule C. You should be entering the income from your own records.   How to enter income from Self Employment https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/self-employed/help/how-do-i-report-income-from-self-employment/00/26653   I saw a post  earlier about reporting self employment tips.  I'll look for it.  

Of course, that just gets you access to that data.   As of yet, there has been no information as to how or whether you will be able to "import" it into the 2025 tax software.   For yoru tax return, you might end up having to re-enter the donations manually.

Box 7 on my form is correctly not included in 3 but is in 1 and 5.  Do you know for sure if TurboTax is going to add a section to give us an opportunity to enter qualified tips based on our own accounting as the IRS allows in this transition year before the new W-2s come out for 2026?  I finished my W-2 and advanced and currently TurboTax only gives me the deduction for box 7 with no other option to adjust that figure.  Some employees may have to subtract from 7 some may add.  I am already going to my employer to try to get them to issue a W-2c which subtracts the portion of my tips that is in 3 and adds it to 7 so for the purposes of TurboTax the way it is 7 reflects all my qualified tips and I get the full deduction.  

Well, there is no such thing as a "1099 employee."  You can be an employee, or you can be an independent contractor.  An independent contractor is a separate business (even if just one person) who provides services to other businesses.  The business is your client, not your employer.  There is some information here. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/independent-contractor-self-employed-or-employee   Whether you are an employee or independent contractor depends on your relationship, and who has control over the time, place and manner of work.  For example, if you are an artist, and you are an independent contractor for ABC company, then you decide whether or not to accept assignments, how to perform them, and where to perform them.  You can also accept assignments from other companies.  If they tell you that you must work in their office and can't take assignments from other companies, you might be an employee.   You might be legally considered an employee even if you signed an agreement to be a contractor, if the company is abusing the conditions of work.   If you are really an independent contractor, then you are a small business.  You file a schedule C, to report your gross income, deduct any ordinary and necessary business expenses, and pay both income tax and self-employment tax on the net profit.  The net income from schedule C flows to the rest of your tax return where it is combined with all your other income, credits and deductions.   Other users here will give you links on how to file a schedule C.   If you think the employer is abusing the rules and you should be an employee, you can file a protest using form SS-8, and file your tax return as if you were an employee.  This will be difficult if you signed a contract to be treated as an independent contractor, you would need substantial proof that the business is violating the rules.    

@VolvoGirl  Yeah...I've seen them created two or three times over the past several months...and my OneDrive backup complains about them immediately.   (Windows Premier)   I don't know what causes them to be created, but usually occur after/during one of my accesses either to Online or Desktop (don't recall which) software.   But with accessing TTX software multiple times every day, the 2 or 3 times generated it hasn't been a major problem.   I've deleted them entirely each time, with no noticeable effect on any of my TTX software, or the files I've accessed....so I've just mentally tossed them off as some strange occasional bug.   I really haven't forced a scan on the file with my virus software yet  (maybe I should if one shows up again).

There is no credit for an FSA.  For a healthcare FSA, the amount was already removed from your W-2 box 1 taxable wages and won't be taxed.  If you have questions about that, ask your employer.  If you had medical expenses that you paid from the FSA, don't include them as itemized deductions, since they were already paid with pre-tax money.   For a dependent care FSA. The amount was already removed from your W-2 box 1 taxable wages and is reported in box 10.  You must fill out the dependent care interview to report the qualifying person, cost of care, and details of the care provider.  If the care is not qualified, the amount will be added back to your taxable income.