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Yes, if you're entering a W-2 in TurboTax, you need an amount in Box 1 (at least $1), but it can't be a negative number.   If you know your income is tax-exempt and you're not claiming the Earned Income Credit, you don't need to enter your W-2 in TurboTax, just keep it for your records.    If you do want the EIC, enter your W2 just like it is in that section. You will get to the step on the Uncommon Situations page where you will check that you have Difficulty of Care Payments and TurboTax will ask you how much of the amount in Box 1 is for Difficulty of Care Payments. Indicate the entire amount and that will make it non-taxable income on your tax return.   Here's more info on Entering a W-2 for Difficulty of Care Income.   @elenarizzo             

Your income from the venture should be the value you received for your services. Since you did not receive cash, it is appropriate to report the income at the fair market value of the property when you received it, regardless of what is reported to you. Just keep good records to substantiate the market values and you should be OK.   @AHB84 

Perhaps.   There is a tax credit for Exterior windows and skylights that meet Energy Star Most Efficient certification requirements. Credit is limited to $600 total.   On your TurboTax return, go to Deductions and Credits->Your Home->Home Energy Credits, and enter your information here.   HOWEVER, note that this interview area is not yet ready, so please be patient.   In any case, you must be able to prove (in case of an audit) that the windows are energy efficient that satisfy the IRS' requirements.    Please read about this credit at the IRS's website.

Being over age 59½ and having had any Roth IRA for 5 years or more means that any distribution from any of your Roth IRAs is tax-free.  For a distribution from a Roth IRA that you have had for less than 5 years, the IRS custodian will report the distribution with code T in box 7 of the Form 1099-R.  When in TurboTax you answer Yes to the question that asks if you had any Roth IRA for 5 years or more, TurboTax will treat code T the same as code Q.

I did kind of. I'm in the military so I was in Virginia for most of the year and then I PCS'd to North Carolina. But my home of record is in Arizona. So do I file for Virginia since I lived there for 10 out of  the 12 months of 2025, North Carolina because that's where I was on 12/31/2025, or Arizona since that's where my home of record is?

Nothing you paid is deductible. What you paid is your beginning tax basis. It will increase by income items and decrease by expenses items and distributions.  Since you are buying stock, your outside basis may be different than the inside basis. There is no Section 754 step-up when dealing with an S-corp. So if you paid $100,000 and the S-corp that has an inside tax basis of $60,000, the extra $40,000 goes nowhere until you sell or it goes out of business. Things would be different if you did an asset purchase.  

As @M-MTax writes above you need to use the 2024 tax software for your fiscal year that begins in 2024.  If you used the 2024 software for the earlier fiscal year that began in 2023 and ended in 2024 then you used the wrong forms and filed the wrong year for that return so you will need to recreate that return in the 2023 software and then enter the numbers for the fiscal year beginning in 2024 into the 2024 software.   @NovoAlternatives 

Did you move during 2025?   Make sure your personal information is correctly entered in the My Info section.   You are asked about all the states you lived or worked in, so TurboTax knows which state returns you need to file.      Do you have to file multiple state returns?  This article will help determine which states you need to file a return for.   

Please explain more.  If you filed in Turbo Tax you need to amend it in Turbo Tax.  How could you correct it on   HR Block?   And do you mean your 2024 return to transfer into 2025?    How to Transfer into the Online version https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/entering-importing/help/how-do-i-transfer-last-year-s-return-into-turbotax-online/00/25953   TurboTax Online and the Mac Desktop program only supports PDF transfers, if you used other tax software last year. But a pdf only transfer very basic info like your name and AGI. It would be just as easy to manually enter all your info. So it's probably not worth even trying to transfer it.  

You cannot import a 2025 return that you prepared with H & R Block into 2025 TurboTax.  When you say you "filed" a 2025 tax return---did you actually e-file it?   Did you click that big orange button that said “Transmit my return now?”  If you did that, you cannot do anything to fix it yet.  You have to wait for the email that tells you if your return was accepted or rejected.   Since the IRS will not begin to accept/reject returns until January 26, you are going to be waiting in “pending” for awhile.  Your return is sitting on a server, where you cannot fix  it or get it back.   You cannot change or add anything on the return that you just e-filed, nor can you stop it.  It is too late, just like when you put an envelope in a US mailbox on the corner.  The IRS does not allow you to take it back.   If you left out a W-2, a 1099G, or a dependent, or a 1099 etc…DO NOT change your return while it is “pending.”  The changes will go nowhere.   Now you have to wait until the IRS either rejects or accepts your return.  If your return is rejected, you will be able to go into your account and make the necessary changes to your tax return and re-submit your return.     If the IRS accepts your return, however, then you have to wait longer until it has been fully processed and you have received your refund.  THEN you can prepare an amended tax return and e-file or mail  it in. You have to be able to work from that return exactly the way it was when it was e-filed originally.  You will need to use a form called a 1040X.     Meanwhile, DO NOT go in and start changing anything on your return in the system, or you will make a mess for yourself.  Sit tight and wait until you see what the IRS does with the return you just e-filed   The Form 1040X you need becomes available in late February,  But wait until your return has been processed.  

@EpicRivalry wrote: I manually completed Schedule 1-A, and no deduction is available. The TurboTax form is confusing. Congrats! you get a deduction of $0 is not useful.   I agree that some of those TurboTax screens are unhelpful, but they are also sometimes misleading or outright wrong.   At any rate, at first glance it appears it is doing the calculations correctly.