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If you are eligible for any sort of child-related refundable credit like earned income credit or additional child tax credit it will be added automatically.    If your filing status is single with no dependents, then, sorry there are no "special" tax breaks for that.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-credits-deductions/qualifications-earned-income-credit-eic-eitc/L7w4BFP32_US_en_US?uid=m62rmz09   https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/earned-income-tax-credit/use-the-eitc-assistant   https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p596.pdf   Look at your 2025 Form 1040 to see the child-related credits you received   PREVIEW 1040 https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/preview-turbotax-online-return-filing/L77WCkvnu_US_en_US?uid=m681fkhr   Child Tax Credit line 19 Credit for Other Dependents line 19 Earned Income Credit line 27 Additional Child Tax Credit line 28  

If you use TurboTax Online, you can file one federal return and any number of state returns needed per Intuit Account.   If you use TurboTax Desktop, you can file five federal returns with up to three state returns each. To start a new tax return in TurboTax Desktop, click File in the top-left corner and select New Tax Return. Save your current return, then follow the prompts to begin a fresh return, ensuring you save it with a unique name to distinguish it from others.   How many tax returns can I file with TurboTax?   @joannehigg115 

sounds like a lot going on; you mentioned "what amounts should be entered into the taxable and nontaxable conversions boxes for Roth IRA contributions in tax year 2023" but you said earlier you did backdoor Roth so just to be clear, think of Backdoor Roth as two separate transactions/steps - a non-deductible contribution to a Traditional IRA; and a conversion from Trad IRA to Roth IRA (not a contribution to Roth, or recharacterization)   Form 8606 will calculate the non-taxable and taxable amount of the Roth conversion, based on the basis you carried forward, the non-deductible contribution and the market value of your Trad IRAs as of 12/31/25.  All your Trad IRAs (any IRA not designated as a Roth) are considered one pool.   Converting 401k to Trad IRA with pre-tax money will result in more tax due from the backdoor Roth as the conversion is considered taken in a pro-rata money from both pre-tax and after-tax (basis/non-deductible contributions).  The remaining portion of the non-deductible contribution will carry over as basis for future years and is distributed over time until the IRA balance is $0.  Form 8606 performs this calculation, in a nutshell the non-taxable portion will be: conversion amount * (carryover basis + non-deductible contribution) / (market value as of 12/31/year + conversion amount)   I ended up doing some examples here for someone with a similar pre-tax issue so this thread maybe helpful https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/retirement/discussion/re-how-do-i-enter-the-non-taxable-amount-of-my-roth-conversion/01/3896174#M269327   so you'll need to go back to 2023 and make sure all the info for your 1099-R and contributions are entered correctly, and Form 8606 will calculate the non-taxable and taxable amounts and the basis carry forward on Line 14 which carries to 2024 Form 8606 Line 2 and so forth.  I'd spin up a spreadsheet and do your own calculations to keep track of it all.   At this point you should probably do (or already did) an extension for 2025 as you'll need the right final carry over basis from 2024 for your Form 8606.  I don't think you have to wait to file 2025 as long as you have right carryover basis, but if you have an extension you may as well file everything in order 2023 / 2024 / 2025.   Hopefully you are using TT Desktop, when doing amendments be sure to first save a separate copy of the .tax file and PDF with all forms and worksheets from your original filed return, otherwise the amendment process just overwrites this.   Hope that helps point in the right direction - see here for the general steps in Turbotax for backdoor Roth though they changed verbiage for 2025 but the general premise is the same and just pay attention to the on-screen questions https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/retirement-benefits/enter-backdoor-roth-ira-conversion/L7gGPjKVY_US_en_US

If you didn't enter any data, you usually don't need to worry about "removing" it, as the software will simply see $0 and defaults to the higher deduction anyway. However, if it’s bothering you or triggering an error, here is how to clear it:   TurboTax essentially asks you to choose between State/Local Income Tax or Sales Tax. Go to Federal > Deductions & Credits. Find Estimates and Other Taxes Paid and click Start/Revisit next to Sales Tax. The software will ask how you want to enter your info. Select the option that says "EasyGuide" or "Enter my own." Once you get to the final comparison screen, simply select the button for "Income Tax" instead of "Sales Tax." This effectively "removes" the sales tax selection.    

Section 179 is an election to expense certain qualifying fixed assets in full, rather than slowly take depreciation expense of their cost value year-after-year. For most taxpayers, electing 179 expense is a highly desirable option.    It is subject to certain limits.   Learn more: TurboTax - What's a Section 179 deduction? IRS Pub. 946 How To Depreciate Property, Electing Sec. 179

The annuity start date is the date that you began to receive the pension benefits.   Each month pension benefits may include an amount previously invested by the taxpayer.  Consider this a return of capital to the taxpayer.   The amount received by the taxpayer that was not previously invested is taxable income to the taxpayer.  So, such a retirement distribution has a taxable and a nontaxable component.   The IRS uses the Simplified Rule method and the General Rule method to determine how much of the retirement distribution is taxable and how much is a return of capital.   The Simplified Rule method is the more popularly used method.   The tax free amount previously recovered is the total of the amount previously invested and recovered by the taxpayer.

Yes, you can fix it.  To see what is causing your return to be rejected and find out how to fix it:   Sign in to your account Select the Fix my return button Follow any “fix it” instructions to update the information causing the rejection.   What does my rejected return code mean and how do I fix it?      

Re-upping this because it was the fix for me after hours of trying everything else -  "go back to the state and do not skip the Public Pension Subtraction. I had continually skipped it since it didn’t apply to me but turbo tax was assuming one of my 1099r’s was a pension. I selected the None of the Above and this is what got rid of my error."