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If your AGI was less than $150,000, and by Jan15 2026 you will have paid in last year's tax as you say (equal payments), you won't get a penalty. You may pay more estimated tax only to reduce the amount due on April 15th.   @bill Pohl 

That may be so but that is not what is happening here.  Apple dumped the Intel based processor for their arm chips.  Apple silicon was first introduced for Macs with the M1 chip in November 2020.  The current chip is the M4.  So for TurboTax not to support legacy hardware, they would need to support the Apple ARM family of processors.  They do not do that right now.  They support running Turbotax by running Rosetta 2 which is a dynamic binary translator.  Basically translate X84 to ARM.  TurboTax is relying on a hardware translator to support their software.  I do not run translators.  I once was on a project that tried to write one.  When efficient and running well they are ok.  When the software breaks, debugging can sometimes be a bear.  The translators can also slow up your machine.  So if TurboTax does not want to support the current Apple architecture, please just let me know and I will go elsewhere.  I have been using TT since 2006 but I am willing to convert. 

You are not exempt from paying income tax or from having tax withheld for Social Security and Medicare.   Do not say on a W-4 that you are exempt.   If your earnings for 2025 are less than than $15, 750, then you will be able to get a refund of the amount that is in box 2 of your W-2 when you prepare a 2025 tax return in early 2026.   You will not get back anything withheld for Social Security or Medicare.   And....at 16, you can be claimed as a dependent on someone else's tax return, so when you prepare your return for 2025, it will be important for you to say on your own tax return that you can be claimed as someone else's dependent.

Here are the blank Estimates and instructions….. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040es.pdf   The 1040ES quarterly estimates are due April 15, June 16, Sept 15 and Jan 15, 2026.  Your state will also have their own estimate forms.   Or you can pay directly on the IRS website https://www.irs.gov/payments Be sure to pick the right kind of payment and year.....2025 Estimate

In order to run TT on native Mac silicon, mine is M4, you need to install Rosetta. Rosetta is the transition layer that allows software built for Intel hardware to run on Apple silicone.    if you Open System Information. In the left column select Applications. Then sort the results by Kind. If you have any Intel software on your machine, Rosetta has been installed so it can run..   translation software can slow down your machine and cause other nasty things to happen.  Apple provides binaries that    applications can be written to support both processors natively.  It’s time that TurboTax be updated to support both.

There may be an unfortunate tax penalty to you here. If an individual pays disability premiums personally with after-tax dollars, the disability benefits are not taxable. So there is a chance that the original W-2s were correct, reflecting no taxable benefits.   But if those payments had to be repaid if you received SS Disability benefits, you are returning benefits which were not taxed (appropriately) but replacing them with taxable SS benefits. You can't record a credit or a deduction in the current year if those prior year benefits weren't taxed in the first place.