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Two completely different entities.   The US Treasury takes longer.  The first page of your tax return PDF is the Filing instructions - that page will show the account and amount you have scheduled.   It normally takes the IRS a few days to take the  payment, but it is effective the date you scheduled it, and confirmed by your e-file acceptance receipt.     See the IRS FAQ page 

The form 8915F allows multiple disasters. You need to switch to the desktop version so you can add the additional disasters. You will pick up where you left off once you move your file. You will need to switch to Forms mode, look on the left for the 8915.

Are you working on your 2024 tax returns?  If so, you need to allocate your income in the state tax section of the program and allocate to Oregon only what you earned while living/working there.  You might want to clarify your question a bit.  

If your daughter is your tax dependent, you would enter the Form 1095-A information on your return, even if she had some income and also files a return. You would only need to allocate a percentage to her if she was on your policy but not your dependent. Then you would need to allocate the premiums and Advanced Premium Tax Credit (APTC) using Form 8962, typically by dividing percentages.   Even though your daughter's name doesn't appear in the drop-down menu to select a person for Form 1095-A, go ahead and select you or your spouse's name. The information you enter in Box 1 and Box 2 will correctly identify the policy.   See this help article and this tax tips article for instructions on entering Form 1095-A.  

It depends on the specifics of your situation and would require more information than you should be posting on this public forum.  There are benefits to both, and again, what's best depends on your situation.

If you have met all the rules and still not seeing the reduction: limited losses -up to the amount at risk. If the property is significantly depreciated, your loss might be limited. passive vs nonpassive. Passive losses offset passive gain. check form 461 -excess business loss limit about $300k/ $600k MFJ check your form 8582 to see if your rentals are showing passive check 6198

Thank you. We e-filed on February 19th, the federal was approved that day but nothing has happened since. I have had to wait in the past, but this seems to be at a standstill. Really hard to talk to someone on the phone, I'm at a loss of what to do? I would think if there was an error I would be notified.

Did you amend 2024  after you had started 2025?   You can only transfer 2024 into 2025 at the beginning.   So you would need to start 2025 over to transfer from the amended 2024 return.   Otherwise you need to manually enter any changes from the amended return.   Enter a Capital Loss Carryover under Federal Taxes or Personal (Home & Business) Wages and Income Then scroll down to Investment Income Capital Loss Carryovers - Click the Start or Update button You enter the full amount that carried over, not just the 3,000

Yes, since the 1042-S income is not included in Box 5 Scholarships on your 1098-T, you are reporting correctly by entering the 1098-T (which will add taxable scholarship income), and entering the 1042-S income/tax treaty offset in Miscellaneous Income.   @Climate_aug 

In the email that you should have received is an activation link, some accounts aren’t fully activated until that link is used.  It could be that your account never activated.  You can request a new activation email from IDNotify support.  To contact IDNotify Customer Support directly so they can verify the account and reset access:   US phone: 1-877-343-6569 (IDNotify by Experian)

My Fees for early return and Turbo Tax were taken from my FEDERAL RETURN.  The State of CA released my refund to Cross River bank on 4/14/26 and I DON'T OWE anymore fees.  Who is this Cross River bank and why are they sitting on MY MONEY? (yes, I'm mad - but not at you all.)

None of which can happen because I can't even complete the process with them continually redirecting me to a "site unavailable" method. I'm not going to spend endless days struggling to just find a simple answer so a phone call will have to do.

There's a problem with this mechanism.  when entering the data associated with the foreign rental tax, you are asked to pick a category. The only category fitting rental income is "passive" category. Unfortunately, someone in their infinite wisdom decided that foreign financial assets belong in the same category, AND therefore they also decided in their infinite wisdom to pull in completely unrelated domestic investment interest expenses from Schedule A as "definitely related".   Generally, the 1116 worksheet is challenging, i get that. It pulls all income and expenses in the entire TR to figure out the ratio of US tax to foreign tax, to figure out how to limit the foreign tax credit. However, the domestic investment interest expense is pulled in as "definitely related" at 100% impact, without giving you an opportunity to object. You are notified that this is happening, and if you have an issue you can go back to "deductions", but there's really nothing you can do in the "deductions".   In addition, during smartcheck i got asked to fill in a basis for the non-existent financial asset for this item. some people say to enter 0 or 1 as the basis but that makes no sense. I shouldn't have to enter any basis whats o ever for non-existent items...   I tried to remove the domestic investment interest expense manually from the 1116 worksheet itself in "forms mode", but the software doesn't allow me to erase the number. It also doesn't allow me to change the ratio of its impact from 100% to whatever % was calculated for non-related expenses. Perhaps the workaround is to do the entire 1116 worksheet in forms mode, although the code might try to still force the investment interest expense into the form when i get back to step-by-step mode.    Appreciate any thoughts about a workaround until this is fixed.  

Unfortunately, while the advanced premium tax credit is based on your situation at the time it is received, the actual credit is reconciled based on the full-year tax situation.  Marriage is one of many things that can adversely impact the credit calculation as the tax return treats you as married for the entire year for all purposes, including calculation of the credit.   Congratulations and best wishes on your marriage!