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@overly-taxed    The 6,000 senior deduction will be calculated on 1040 Schedule 1-A page 2 Part V Enhanced Deduction for Seniors which goes to 1040 line 13b.  It is in addition to the Standard Deduction or your Itemized Deductions on 1040 line 12e.   IRS Schedule 1-A https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-dft/f1040s1a--dft.pdf  

Yes in the Desktop program you get 5 federal efiles for free (state is around $25).  Or  you can print and mail the returns.  If you use up the first 5 efiles you can mail the rest if you have more.  

Oh I forgot to post where to enter it,  For Home & Business….. On the Business tab Click on Business Income and Expenses Update Click on Edit by your Business Then under Business Expenses Go to Other Common Expenses - Insurance Payments

Hello, Thanks for your help. I just checked everything and see that I filled taxes for 2023 from another software 🙂 Now I'm confused about 2024 taxes because I missed deadline for last year.. Only way is to print tax script and send it to irs?

Yes I have had an intuit account for  20 years and none of the choices to login work when you click on them.  With that new browser window (in edge) the choices to use passkey or password, etc are not operable.

Do not expect that "extra $6000" to show up on line 12.   2025 STANDARD DEDUCTION AMOUNTS   SINGLE $15,750  (65 or older/legally blind + $2000) MARRIED FILING SEPARATELY $15,750  (65 or older/legally blind +1600) MARRIED FILING JOINTLY $31,500  (65 or older/legally blind + $1600) HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD $23,625 (65 or older/legally blind + $2000)     For 2025 through 2028 there is an extra  deduction amount of up to $6000 per individual 65 or older filing Single, MFJ, or HOH which is phased out above certain incomes.         Here's a chart to help illustrate. Bonus deduction changes under the OBBBA Filing Status Base Standard Deduction (OBBBA) Normal Extra Deduction for 65+ New Bonus Deduction ($6K/$12K) Total Deduction (Age 65+) under the OBBBA for 2025 Single $15,750 $2,000 $6,000 $23,750 Head of Household $23,625 $2,000 $6,000 $31,625 Married Filing Jointly $31,500 $3,200 (both 65+) $12,000 (both 65+) $46,700 (both 65+) Row 3 - Cell 0 Row 3 - Cell 1 $1,600 (one 65+) $6,000 (One 65+) $39,100 (one 65+)  

Thank you so much for your answer; it has resolved this issue. DETAILS: I did not see anything in the Desktop TurboTax Step-by-step interview where it asked about FINAL. However, I went through the Schedule E worksheet and found a line "H" entitled "Complete Taxable Disposition" in a section entitled "Check All That Apply:" near the beginning of the worksheet. Box "H" was checked (I do not know why). We did sell one of our office condos in 2023, so while doing the 2023 return I may have incorrectly answered one of interview questions that led to Box "H" being checked. Anyway, I unchecked Box "H" and saved the file. Then opened TT2024 and imported the just-modified TT2023 file. All of schedule E imported correctly including all assets. Again thank you very much for your help. FYI: I am doing TT2023 and TT2024 now because due to a computer glitch I lost the original tax2023 and tax2024 files. So I had to recreate these files so I can import the tax2024 file into TT2025.

I did not find anywhere in TurboTax that shows the accurate details of 1040:Line12, zooming in does not match because we have one person over 65. Line 12 says per Schedule A which according to Google is created in the background and never shown.  I Googled the blind/65 amounts and did the math manually.   With the blind/age amount being changed for 2025-2028 for the new $6000 credit for >65 that have some complexities (the formula from ChatGPT is ick), TurboTax should build a better supporting schedule.

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hurting me is their intention so I appreciate the help on the logistics of all of this! I will bring all of this info to my advisor when I file my taxes this year (assuming they go through with it and send me the 1099)

@Confused96 wrote: They stated they will be sending me a w2 as usual and a 1099 just for the training  So that's clearly improper, and it's not taxable to you.  The question is how to not get the IRS on your back while it gets sorted out.   (The problem with a lawyer is it could cost you more than the amount of the dispute.)   Although there may be other opinions, I would not include the 1099 as taxable income.  There are two ways to do this, both of which will likely trigger the IRS to look into it.  a. Enter the 1099 as miscellaneous (other) income, not related to work you did (even though it;s a 1099-NEC).  Then enter a negative amount of miscellaneous income as an offsetting adjustment.  You can e-file this way.  The IRS computer will see that you reported the 1099 as income, so it won't be an immediate red flag, but they will probably ask at some point for an explanation of the negative adjustment. b. Leave the 1099 off your return, file by mail, include a copy of the 1099 and a written letter of explanation.  The. IRS may still ask for information later.   Either way, this is profoundly stupid by the employer.  They don't get any more of a tax deduction for 1099 income than they do for training expenses, it just hurts you. 

When you prepare your tax return you will enter a 1095A into the software, showing the amounts of the tax credit you received.  You must get the 1095A from healthcare.gov. TO FIND A 1095-A with healthcare.gov   How to find your 1095-A online Log in to your account. Under "Your Existing Applications," select your 2025 application — not your 2026 application. Select “Tax Forms." Download all 1095-As. Get screen-by-screen directions, with pictures (PDF, 504 KB).         If you had health insurance from the marketplace, when you applied for the insurance, you gave healthcare.gov an estimate of how much income you would receive in 2025.  They used that amount to calculate how much of the insurance premium would be covered by the tax credit and how much would be your amount to pay.   So...you had some monthly amounts to pay, and the rest of the cost of having that insurance was paid by the government program.   If you ended up making a higher income than you told them you would receive, they re-calculate how much should have been paid by the program and how much should have been paid by you.   And if your own share of the cost should have been more, they get it back on your income tax return.      If you actually had less income, you could even get some of the share you paid back on your tax return.