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My uncle passed away after spending 4 years in a nursing home.   When he first went in, I got power of attorney which I held until his passing in November of 2024.   In 2025, I went to his bank and informed them of his death.   He had about $2200 in his checking account.   I told them I didn’t know what to do about his account or what would happen to this money.   My intent was not to acquire the money but the folks at the bank indicated that since my uncle was never married and never had children, the money could be turned over to me provided I could produce the death certificate and the final funeral bill.  Having had POA, I had both of these documents and subsequently the bank released the money to me and closed his account.  Do I have to claim this as income on my 2025 Federal taxes?   Or as income on my Pennsylvania State return?

I clicked Print to PDF, navigated to the folder and entered filename   1. 2025 Taxes Return Only   TT saved it as filename 1.  It truncated the rest. I found HERE, this bug has been around for 5 years!!??  Come on TT, you can do better. Let me use a Windows filename. Leaving this bug unattended for 5 years is unacceptable

I was a full year resident in the state of Maryland in 2025. I worked in Philadelphia, PA, and per the reciprocity agreement with MD and PA, I paid MD tax on my earnings. So I don't need to file a PA state return.   The city of Philadelphia also charges me a local wage tax as a non-resident. It comes directly out of my paycheck. I believe I can ask for a credit from the state of Maryland for the tax I paid. When filling this out on Turbotax (Deluxe version, on a Mac), I am able to fill this out by claiming that it is tax from the state of PA, and entering the right amounts for the city of Philadelphia (basically: MD's view of the wages on which I was charged tax, and the amount of tax paid). When I check the 502CR I believe this all looks correct.   My questions:   1. Does this seem right, i.e., am I able to claim this credit and is this the way to do it? 2. The MD filing instructions say I need to include the tax return of the state in which I paid the tax that I'm claiming as a credit. In this case it's not a state, it's a locality (Philadelphia), and I have no return to include. I just have my W-2. Is including the W-2 sufficient, perhaps with a note? 3. Lastly, will I be able to file electronically to MD, or will the need to include the Phila/PA return block me from doing that?

I am reporting a parsing bug with the W-2 import tool in TurboTax Online. When I uploaded my W-2, the system skipped Box 12 Code DD and incorrectly assigned the Code DD amount to Box 12 Code W.   For example, on my actual W-2: Box 12 Code DD (Employer health coverage) was $12K Box 12 Code W (HSA contribution) was $4K   However, TurboTax imported this as: Box 12 Code W: $1K Code DD: Missing entirely This is a critical error. Because it swapped the employer health coverage cost into the HSA contribution box, it made it appear as though I massively overcontributed to my HSA. If I hadn't caught this manually, it could have resulted in incorrect tax calculations and penalties. Once I corrected, my refund grew significantly. I would have lost a lot of money.   I manually corrected the entries to proceed with my return, but the development team should look into this OCR bug to prevent it from affecting other users.