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When the questions come up to ask you about your income answer that you want to enter the information yourself.  It will allow you to skip around to any sections that you want to in any order that you want to.    

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There are a couple questions you could have answered wrong under My Info.  Click on My Info then click Edit by Dependents, then click Edit by their name and go though all the screens again.   First of all check their date of birth.  Also you need to enter a ssn for them.  And say her ssn is valid for employment.   If your child was away at college, count the number of months away as having lived with you.  The correct answer to claim the person is to say "the whole year". This will indicate you supported the person the whole year, thus it will be entered on your return correctly showing up as a dependent.   Or if your child was born during the year they are considered to have lived with you the whole year so be sure to answer All Year (pick the top box for the Whole Year).   Or the one that says did your CHILD pay more than half of their support.  It's not asking if you did.   If you can't get it to change then try completely deleting them and re-entering them.  Sometimes that helps to clear something out.

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.

You didn't provide any details about your question, but as a general rule, Schedule C is almost never subject to the Not-At-Risk rules and should therefore not have Section 465(d) carryovers.   If I had to guess, you mistakenly said, you are NOT At-Risk, rather than saying you ARE At-Risk when you prepared your 2024 return.  Assuming that is the case, you can amend your 2024 return to say you are ARE At-Risk and it will then allow those losses to be used in 2024.  Then there would NOT be a carryover to 2025, so you would need to delete that.

You can use QuickEmployer Forms available to TurboTax users to prepare your 1099 forms for your workers.    You will see an option on your home page, under Your Account, when you log into TurboTax to create W2 and 1099 forms. Otherwise, you can type "QuickEmployer Forms" in the help section (see the looking glass icon on top of your screen) and look for an article on entering employer forms, where there will be a link to the website.   You will also see the option to prepare 1099 forms when you edit your business entries under Business Expenses, then choose Other Common Business Expenses. On the next screen choose Contract Labor and you will see the option Create and file W-2s and 1099's online with TurboTax Quick Employer Forms:   If you are using the desktop TurboTax product, you will see an option on your home screen when you log into the program that says Create Employer Forms along with a link to Create 1099/W2 that you can click on to access the Quick Employer Forms. You will see a similar option when you log into the TurboTax Business desktop product.        

First, its' important to understand that the tax laws are federal, and are above and ignore state court orders no matter what they say.   According to tax law, the only parent who is entitled to claim a child as a dependent is the parent where the child lives more than half the nights of the year (183 or more nights). If that is you, then only you can claim the child no matter what the court order says.  You file your tax return, say the child lives with you all year (or most of the year, whatever, as long as it is more than half), and say there is no court order to be followed.  You will be allowed to claim your child.  If your ex e-files first and claims the child incorrectly, that may block you from e-filing, so just print your return and mail it in.  The IRS will investigate the duplicate claim and award the dependent to whoever can prove the child lived with them more than half the year.   Your ex can't claim the child unless you give your ex a signed release form.  Even with the form, your can can only claim the child tax credit and not EITC or head of household filing status because those things stay with the parent who has majority actual custody, and can't be waived, transferred or shared.   If you have a court order that says you must sign such a release form to allow your ex to claim the child, that is between you, your ex and the court.  The IRS won't care if you don't sign the release, they will award you the dependent.  The court might care if you don't sign the form when you are supposed to, so be careful about ignoring a court's order unless you have a good reason and good legal advice.