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To preview your Schedule 2 in TurboTax Online before you file:   Sign in to your account Select Tax Tools from the menu. Select Print Center, choose Print, save, or preview this year's return, Select Your federal and/or state tax return(s). Select Include government and TurboTax worksheets. Select View or Print Forms. Refer to the TurboTax article How do I preview my TurboTax Online return before filing?    You will have to pay for TurboTax Online or register if using the free product before you can review all of the forms and schedules.  

My daughter attended an accredited university in Wales that does participate in the U,S, student loan program and thus should be eligible for the Lifetime Learning Credit. Turbo insists on the Federal EIN even though it is not required.  I can't find any way around this. 

To ensure the subtraction flows to your Minnesota return, follow these steps in the Federal interview:    In Federal > Income, go to the Interest and Dividends section. Find the entry for your 1099-DIV. After entering the 1099-DIV, look for a screen titled "Tell us if any of these uncommon situations apply". Check the box for "A portion of these dividends is U.S. Government interest". On the following screen, enter the specific dollar amount of your dividends that came from U.S. Treasury obligations.

If TurboTax did not generate them automatically, you may not need them or you did not go through the estimated taxes interview when you prepared the OH return.   You can get back into your return if you want to add them.   When you sign in to TurboTax, scroll down and click on Add a State, but don't add a new state - Your return will be unlocked and you can go through the OH return again and generate estimated payment vouchers.   Are you sure you need them?

If you are on Medicare you are not eligible for to contribute to an HSA.  If you are trying to determine your eligibility to contribute to an HSA plan, the HDHP question is moot, as you are not eligible for any month you were on Medicare.  If you have an existing HSA, you can still take tax free distributions of funds in the plan to pay for qualified medical expenses. You just can make any contributions.

The credit doesn't expire until June 2026.    The Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit is available to taxpayers who purchase a battery-powered vehicle and install new electric vehicle charging supply equipment (EVCSE) at their main home to recharge its battery. To qualify, the refueling/recharging property must me installed in a low-income community or non-urban census tract.   Refer to the IRS website Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit for more details and TurboTax article What Is Form 8911: Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit.

I provided the shortcut method above to go directly to the section for estimated tax payments made for 2025 in Online TurboTax.   If you want to use regular navigation, here's how.  So between the 2 methods, you should be able to use one or both of them.    When you click in the left column on the Federal tab then subtab Deductions & Credits and in the dropdown choose the Deductions & Credits Summary, it may take you to a page called "Your Tax Breaks".   That shows the "Tax Breaks", i.e., deductions, that someone has already worked on this year or that TurboTax is expecting from what was entered last year.   Lower on that same screen should be a button or link for "Add more tax breaks" or "Show more tax breaks" or similar wording.   When clicked, then the screen should expand, and all the deduction topics are displayed including "Estimates and Other Taxes Paid."  Then that topic can be expanded further to get the subtopic Estimated Tax Payments.