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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

The Form 5695 for Home Energy Credits is available when using the TurboTax online editions.  If you are currently signed onto the online account, sign off and then sign on again.   The Form 5695 has not yet been finalized for the TurboTax desktop editions.  It may be available sometime next week.

They did not give me any estimate.  I was on the phone for over an hour and frankly they appeared to disregard the issue.  The representative bluntly suggested that I should take the issue to the forums.   I was dissatisfied due to the fact that it is very easy to look up this guidance, and at the time the guidance was issued it actually made headline news.  I provided the exact same IRS documents to TurboTax/Intuit but they appear to not be taking it seriously.  They do not issue a ticket that can be tracked for the issue so there is no follow up mechanism for the consumer.  I hope they implement a fix quickly.   Even ChatGPT is able to acknowledge the IRS guidance reference and concludes that the tax credit is applicable if a binding contract with payment happened before 9/30/2025 and the vehicle was placed in service after 9/30/2025.   One interesting nuance is in form 8936 it doesn’t even have a date field, so it appears TurboTax is using internal logic not reported on the form, and their internal logic appears incomplete because it does not account for the IRS guidance.

@wirsme  If it's a pension that you receive regularaly...it still has an RMD, but the Issuer has already pre-figured the proper amount according to IRS rules...and what they send you is the RMD, and all of it is the RMD.   TTX starts asking that of any 1099-R once you reach age 73.  Usually, it's just IRAs and 401k/TSP's that you have to worry about since you control how much and when the $$ are withdrawn.

@Koshinsr    (1099-R on the Wages&Income page)  99% of us can enter that data now.    Of course, if you are expecting to import your 1099-R, that really depends on whether you 1099-R provider partners with TTX and creates special 1099-R data files that alow importing.  Three of my 1099-R providers, will only provide paper copies...and no importing of the datafile.   Even so, I've already typed in two of my 1099-R, and still waiting for one that only provides mail copies (No Online access to a PDF...luddites).   So, look for the menu item for 1099-R entries in the Retirement section on the Wages&Income page.

@clsidwell wrote: reeived an email that the form was ready but it is not showing in updates   The Form 5695 for Home Energy Credits is available when using the TurboTax online editions.  If you are currently signed onto the online account, sign off and then sign on again.   The Form 5695 has not yet been finalized for the TurboTax desktop editions.  It may be available sometime next week.

@meclayton    I guess it depends on what you expect to see & where you are looking.   The only $$ that should transfer, are any $$ that might affect this year's tax filing. Thus the majority of $$ form 2024 don't show in this year's file.   Now, in the Desktop Menu pages, those do show $#s form last year in a 2024 column, but ~95% aren't used in the 2025 filing.  If you don't see the 2024 numbers on the Menu selection pages, make sure you started your 2025 file by transferring in a .tax2024 datafile  (a 2024 PDF transfer won't do much of anything).