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Check the pictures provided by NY to ensure you are using the right number.   (It's not the DMV-ID number)   Sample Photo Documents | NY DMV ________________________________ Still a no-go?  Customer Support: How do I contact TurboTax?

I'm having the same issue.... Form 8606 should've been available today (1/28/2026) according to my desktop version and it's not.   Now it just says 'Ready Soon' instead on the desktop version.  Yet on the TT forms website, it still says it's available TODAY.  The form is filled out... it was a whopping two lines of data input and yet, I can't file because the form's not ready...  If the form ready today, then it should be downloadable today.

Thanks for your response.   Would the fair market value (FMV) need to be based on the date of death of my great-great grandmother who died more than 100 years ago or based on the date of death of my father from whom I inherited the mineral rights?  Otherwise, I would use $0 as the cost basis.   Thanks again!

@selfreporter did you get an answer to this? I just want to make "other income" on line 12 $0. There is no reason to report the community property adjustment itself (the whole point of 8958 is to calculate that number) as a separate source of income on that very form

To enter your sales taxes Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home and Business) Click on Deductions and Credits Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown) Scroll down to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid On Sales Taxes, click the start or update button   Go through the sales taxes section and just Continue on each screen until you land on the screen labeled Let's find your biggest deduction then select State and local income tax deduction and Continue.

If you have already updated the software today, and you have your TurboTax Desktop return open, when you select Deductions & Credits, then Home Energy Credits there is a note explaining updates are being completed.   Click the link 'Sign up for email alerts' Please continue your tax return with your other tax items and check back with these steps after each software update.

https://www.irs.gov/identity-theft-fraud-scams/retrieve-your-ip-pin   If you have a 6 digit PIN issued to you by the IRS you need to enter it in order to e-file.  Go to Federal>Other Tax Situations>Other Return Info>Identity Protection PIN and enter the six-digit PIN.  

If you are using the Online version you can use the same email address for 5 accounts.  Each account needs a new username and password and has separate fees unless you can use the Free Edition for a return.  If you use the same account then his return will overwrite yours and your return will be gone.   The Desktop installed program can do unlimited returns and efile 5 federal for free.   

You probably answered something incorrectly in MY INFO.   Go back to MY INFO, click the child’s name  and go through all of the interview questions carefully and slowly.  Read every screen top to bottom.     Make sure you have entered your child as a dependent in My Info, and that you have entered the child's Social Security number.    Careful— do not say that your child’s SSN is not valid for employment.  If your child was born in 2025 make sure you said he lived with you the whole year.  There is an oddly worded question that asks if the child paid over half their own support.  Say NO to that question.

Because Tax Year 2024 is closed for e-file, you will need to print and send your amended return to the IRS on paper.    On the left-hand side of TurboTax Online, select Tax Tools and then select Print Center to print your 1040X (and amended state return, if applicable).    Here are the instructions (How do I amend my federal tax return for a prior year?) to make sure you are working on the amended Form 1040X: TurboTax Online On the Tax Home screen, scroll down to Your tax returns & documents and select the year you want to amend. Select the Amend (change) return dropdown, then Amend using TurboTax Online. If you're told to amend your return via TurboTax Desktop, follow the steps for TurboTax Desktop instead. Continue through the screens, make the changes you need to make, and carefully answer the remaining questions to finish amending your return.   TurboTax Desktop Open the TurboTax Desktop software for the year you're amending. For example, you must amend your 2024 return in the 2024 version of TurboTax. Under Need to Amend a Filed Return?, select Amend a Filed Return. Select Amend for the return you need to amend. If the return you need doesn’t appear as an option, select Find a Tax File to find and load the return. On the Do you need to change anything else screen, select Update next to the info you need to change. Continue through the screens, make the changes you need to make, and carefully answer the remaining questions to finish amending your return. Don’t forget to select Save As (or Duplicate on Mac) from the File menu when you save a copy of your amended return. This will preserve the tax return you originally filed. Give the file a different name from the original, like [tax year]_amended_tax_return_Smith.   For further guidance, here's the IRS information page for filing an amended 1040X.

Roger,   Thanks.  Absolutely correct.  I discovered this just before seeing your response.  The "trap," if there is one, is that TurboTax lists last years 1099's, be they -DIV or -INT, in alphabetical order.  So if you had clicked on DIV entries at the start and the next 1099 happens to be a -INT rather than a -DIV, it's too easy to click on -DIV again because that's the way you started and intended to enter data.   Thanks again!