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You will still get the refund from the first original return or still need to pay the first tax due.  In fact you should not even amend until the first return has fully processed and you get the first refund or your tax due payment has cleared.     Then the amended 1040X return is only for the difference you get back or owe.  I think the cover sheet shows what the original return WOULD have been if you did it right the first time.  Ignore the new 1040 that might print out.   Go by the actual 1040X.  Line 18 should be your original refund amount and line 22 should be your additional refund.  If you paid on your original return it will be on line 16.  If there is an amount owed with the amendment, it will be on line 20.

Hello!   The Room and Board functionality for desktop was fixed at the end of February.     Start by selecting the 1098T section from the Deductions/Credits section   It sounds like you have already entered your student so you hopefully come to the Education Summary Tab.  If so, the select the pencil on the right to edit.  Answer the next 5 questions (and ensure you pick you have educational expenses other than tuition) and get to the 1098T section.   Again, if you have your 1098T's entered, select the pencil to edit or if you have not entered one yet, add one.  as before answer all the questions and fill in the details of the 1098Ts.   Once you have done this and have all the 1098Ts in (and if you had one before, just edit via the pencil and reconfirm the entries), then select continue.   This should take you to a screen that says time to enter XXX educational expenses and now you should see 6 fields including Room and Board.  

The Schedule H form has my name "First Mi Last" in the business name entry ------->  Right corner, my SSN next line --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->  Business EIN (xx-xxxxxxx)   My IRS business EIN was issued under: Business Name Then under that :  My  FULL name:   "First Middle Last : MBR" (MBR for partner membership)   So, Turbo Tax never asks for my business name, it just "assumes" it is my name by default, and places it in the business name entry, as it is listed in the personal information section. TurboTax should create the Schedule H by asking for the business name.  This is an obvious error on Intuit's program.  I can't remember if this was my situation last year, but the Sch-H was created the same way in 2024 and 2023. Thanks for the input !!      

@Mrdovecourt1108 , I may be wrong ( so please forgive if true ), but it seems to be  that (a) you have filed a return that was accepted for processing and (b) without waiting for that process to complete ( see IRS "Where is my Refund" -- WMR ), you have a need  to amend the filed return ( because of new info ).    Turbo has no knowledge  that your refund  has/ has not been issued -- it  therefore assumes that it is so.  Thus the figure that you see is based  on that the refunds have been issued.    Generally it is strongly recommended that you wait till the original return has been processed ( and refund issued ) before you file an amended return.   Is there more one of us can do for you ?

Just checking in.  Has TT addressed this issue yet, if not is there any sense of when an update will be released?  Message does not address incorrect Idaho State tax calculation if using itemized Schedule A on Federal return.    Waiting to file. Can’t file Federal until Idaho State return is ready. I’m stuck. 

FLSA OT probably means overtime pay that is eligible for the new deduction for overtime. You can only enter one amount for the deduction for overtime. You have to ask your employer why there are two different entries, what they mean, and how you can determine how much of your overtime pay is eligible for the deduction.  

UPDATE:  I re-entered my tax return data, saved before doing the CA return, and ended up with the same result.  I exited TT.  When I returned and started the CA return again.  Oddly, I was asked more questions than during the previous round.  The one question that I noticed was unrelated to my rental issue - TT asked me for my Capital Loss Carryforward for CA, which is different than my Federal amount.  On my previous session, TT never asked for that and just (properly) carried the amount forward from my 2024 CA return.  After all of this, I found that my rental depreciation schedule was accurate!  I also realized that what had happened with my original return (the problem that I posted about) was that TT did not transfer the proper amount of prior depreciation - it only transferred the depreciation from 2024, not the cumulative amount from 2023 and 2024 - and it appears that this is why the 2025 depreciation is overstated.  I hope this makes sense, but one can see it in my photos.  Bottom Line:  TT was acting quirky...

Thanks again for these ideas. #1 did not work.   For #2, yes, my HSA is through my employer, so it is in Box 12 on my W2. Are you saying I'm supposed to remove that? There has to be another way rather than putting incorrect information here. There have to be millions of people who have HSAs through their employers. I have not included this information in any other section.

The data file for the Mac version and the data file for the Windows version is exactly the same. This tells me that the development has been parallel. Both the Windows binary and Mac binary are Intel based. If it was as easy as simply recompiling, I am sure they would have already done it. Since they are not even making binaries for new Microsoft Surface Pro's that have the Qualcomm ARM chip, the odds of an Apple Silicon binary is almost nil. It still runs on all Macs currently, but not all Windows Machines. Pathetic.