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@M-MTax @AmeliesUncle  Good catch that I left out an important detail for 2024 that my fiscal year ends with November as opposed the the typical calendar year.  That's how 2024 came in with 3.5 months of depreciation.   I'm working on 2025 now (again, because the fiscal year ends earlier.)  It's in the 2025 version of business tax that I'm not getting the correct depreciation.  Thank you

Want to know where the Windows 10 upgrade $ are going?  Here's a kick in the teeth:   TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings and financial profile by the AI chatbot. TurboTax owner Intuit will also pay OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.  They are laying off 10% of their workforce (1,800 people) as part of this effort.   "As part of the partnership, users will be able to authorize Intuit to pull the right data and return tailored results, like estimating a tax refund, finding the right credit card, or generating QuickBooks insights off real-time business activity."  Yup, Intuit is real concerned about security.   Personally, I love AI and ChatGPT, but ChatGPT just gave me the 2nd wrong answer in less than a week.  In the VM options mentioned above that I'm considering, It told me that Windows 10 Pro Hyper-V can absolutely co-exist with version 5.2 of Oracle's Virtualbox (a particular version that I require for some non-tax related stuff).  Well, I installed Hyper-V, and lo and behold, it broke my VIrtualbox instantiation.  I provided the result and error message to ChatGPT, and it replied (paraphrasing), "Those 2 are incompatible, you can't do that".  Hence, ChatGPT cannot be trusted carte-blanche.   Morale of the story -- good luck with fighting your audits, when you tell them that your TT AI Agent told me to take such and such deduction.............  

Yes it’s either/or it would switch you to online and lose desktop, but it’s just an option they are offering this year mainly due to the Win 10 compatibility issue.  Just say no to it if you don't want to switch to online, many who purchase desktop feel the same way as you about it.

I am a US Citizen who is outside US for whole of 2025 and need to file regular form 1040, which is available in Turbotax Deluxe 2025 desktop version.   U.S. citizens and residents abroad filing requirements | Internal Revenue Service   1) When I go to State return, it says  CA tax= $0 because I lived outside US and I do not need to file California return!   That is NOT correct. California requires me to file 540NR for my California source income. Part-year resident and nonresident | FTB.ca.gov   2) I clicked on "Get another State" and tried to download California version and  it is charging me another $40, though my Turbotax Deluxe includes 1 free State return!   Clearly this is a bug in Turbotax Deluxe 2025 desktop version.   Turbotax: Please fix this bug soon!  

for security reasons and to mitigate fraud, the IRS does not permit changes to banking account information once the tax return is submitted.     You can update your banking information once you submit your 2025 tax year tax return.    There is no $2,000 payment coming.  That is a Trump idea only. 

@AmeliesUncle wrote: While your comment could be a factor, I think there is more to it than only that. I understand, but then you and I (I believe) are aware of how TurboTax can wildly mess up the figures based on past input. For example, I recall a test return I did where the current year deduction would be way off and variable every single time past depreciation was changed. Crazy stuff.

@M-MTax wrote: @AmeliesUncle    The wrong date (or time period) was used for 2024 depreciation. @_John__ stated that $7,487 was the depreciation deduction for 2024 for an asset that was placed in service in August. The correct figure should be $9626 and that will affect deductions going forward.   Even if it was placed in service in August (although he said 3.5 months, which could mean it was placed in service in September), the less-than $2200 difference in the first year shouldn't account for the $1000-ish difference in depreciation for the following year.   I agree with you that an incorrect "prior depreciation" would incorrectly alter the current and future year depreciation, but the specific numbers in this case still would not make sense.  While your comment could be a factor, I think there is more to it than only that.