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In most cases, the materials used in merchandise for sale are reported as Supplies or Miscellaneous Expenses using a custom description.    Note: If you enter a general business expense in the wrong category, it will not affect your taxes. Just be sure you don't enter the same expense twice.

So do you just put thpse information in on deduction section on TurboTax not on community property section correct?   For example for charitable donation if I did 21k and my wife did 9 k.    I will put 15 k on mine and she will put 15k on hers?    Thank you in advance.    And also how do I deal with the floor rule?

There are no tax credits for a metal roof in 2025.  It is not "small wind property" (that would be a windmill that makes electricity for your home.).  And the credit that used to exist for certain roofs that prevent heat loss/gain was removed for 2025 (and not all roofs qualified in any case). 

Thank you for the detailed answer, ReneV4, much appreciated!   I'm happy to follow the method you outlined and I can see how this will result in correct tax calculations on both of our returns. I considered this, but I wasn't sure if IRS will accept the reports given that the various 1099 (INT, DIV, B) and W2 forms won't match the originals. For my piece of mind, is there a particular IRS publication I can refer to documenting this method? Or, is your recommendation based on positive past experience filing MFS in this way?   A couple of follow up questions: - we both paid estimated taxes, while close in amounts, these don't alway match; should we total and split 50:50 the est. tax payments as well? - I have a rental unit income (got a 1099-MISC from the prop mgmt company). Following your recommendation, we'll split the income, but that implies also splitting the related expenses. To keep things simple(r), can I file the expenses "as is" on only one of the reports (mine, since I'm the single owner of that rental property) despite that this will result in slightly different (lower) tax due on my report?   Many thanks for your help!

Your wife is not but you are.  Note that form 3520 is not part of your regular tax return and is not supported by Turbotax.  File it separately.   Here is the form and instructions. https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-3520

There is no place in TurboTax Online to indicate that your 1099-NEC is corrected.   A corrected 1099-NEC supersedes and replaces the original 1099-NEC. The IRS has a copy of the corrected 1099-NEC. So just enter the corrected form and disregard the original form and the IRS can match it to the corrected copy they have.