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If you had a tax due on your state tax return from the previous year that would be included with your state taxes paid on Schedule A. That may explain the number being larger than your state tax withheld in the current year. 

Some state issues come from rounding errors while other states do not require the Q at all. On the Q, box 2 rounded  plus box 3 rounded must equal box 1 rounded. A difference in rounding can be adjusted in box 3.   What is the error you are seeing? What does it show you in the review? Which form? What line? Do you have taxable income from the Q for AZ?  

TurboTax online accounts cannot be deleted.   If you have not paid for the online edition you are using, have not filed your tax return or registered the Free edition, then you can clear your return. Click on Switch Products on the lower left side of the program screen while working on the 2025 online tax return. Click on Clear & Start Over

To enter, edit or delete a form 1099-R - Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home and Business) Click on Wages and Income (Personal Income using Home and Business) Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown) Scroll down to Retirement Plans and Social Security On IRA, 401(k), Pension Plan Withdrawals (1099-R), click the start or update button Online editions -   On the screen Did you get a 1099-R in 2025? Click on Yes On the screen Let's import your tax info Click on Change how I enter my form On the screen How would you like to upload your 1099-R? Click on Type it in myself On the screen Who gave you a 1099-R? select the type of 1099-R you received and Continue

According to the IRS:      You must include the taxable part of a lump-sum payment of benefits received in the current year (reported to you on Form SSA-1099, Social Security Benefit Statement) in your current year's income, even if the payment includes benefits for an earlier year.  However, there are two ways to determine the amount of income to include:  You can use your current year's income to figure the taxable part of the total benefits received in the current year; or  You may make an election to figure the taxable part of a lump-sum payment for an earlier year separately, using your income for the earlier year.  You can select the lump-sum election method if it lowers the taxable portion of your benefits:  Under this method, you calculate the taxable part of all your benefits (including the lump-sum payment) for the earlier year using that year’s income.  Then you subtract any taxable benefits for that year that you previously reported.  The remainder is the taxable part of the lump-sum payment. Add it to the taxable part of your benefits for the current year (figured without the lump-sum payment for the earlier year).  Worksheets in Publication 915, Social Security and Equivalent Railroad Retirement Benefits can help you calculate the taxable portion using this method.  To report the "lump sum" method in TurboTax:       Search (upper right) for SSA1099    Click the Jump to ... link    Continue to enter your information and select Lump sum treatment   Be sure to select "lump-sum" method of reporting in this situation.  You will have to calculate the taxable amount for each year separately, based on that year . Enter the appropriate amounts for each year when you start that section of your return.   Continue to add each year for all years listed in box 3. There is no amendment required.     Be sure to enter zero if your Social Security benefits were not taxable or there were none for a particular year. If you are using TurboTax CD/Download, you can review the Lump-Sum Social Security Worksheet in Forms.  You can also review 'Earlier Year Lump-Sum Worksheet' for each year.  If you are using TurboTax Online, click the following link for instructions on how to review your return before filing.  How to Preview My Online Return Before Filing 

@MonikaK1  Thank you for your reply.   The process you described for entering the 1095-A is the process I followed; thank you for confirming that part.   The Schedule C screenshot was what cam up when I clicked on "Schedule C" in the forms view, so I'm not sure why you are saying its not the schedule C ??  Regardless, it seems that you are saying that the health insurance premium deduction counts as a deduction from your business profit for purposes of determining your tip limit?  Am I understanding you correctly?   Just to use round numbers as an example,  if I had business income of 8,000, and deductions of 3,000 (mileage and various expenses), the net profit is 5,000.  Then lets say 500 for 1/2 self employment tax deduction.   Leaving net profit of 4500.  Qualified tips lets say 2000.  I assumed that would leave me with 2500 profit in business (and up to 2500 in health insurance premiums credit on Schedule 1.  But you are saying that the health insurance deduction is being taken off the net profit (for purposes of figuring how much of the tips I can claim, but it is not going to actually lower by business net profit number).  Am I following that correctly?  That doesn't make sense to me though....

When you enter a contribution to an HSA or enter a Form 1099-SA to report distributions from an HSA you will indicate whether you have Family or Self Only coverage.  If you have more than one person on your health care plan you have Family coverage.  If not, it's self only.    According to a TurboTax Help Article:   Employers can put just about anything in box 14—it's a catch-all for items that don't have their own dedicated box on the W-2.   In TurboTax, enter the description from your W-2's box 14 on the first field in the row. Enter the dollar amount and select the correct tax category that goes with that description.   If none of the categories apply, scroll to the bottom of the list and select Other (not classified). Don’t worry. We'll figure out if it impacts your return or not. If we need more information, we'll ask you.   If box 14 is blank, just skip over it. Don't enter a 0 for any blank boxes.