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You can deduct costs of selling your home such as escrow fees, legal fees, real estate agent commissions, advertising costs, and even home staging fees. But you can’t deduct these costs in the same way ‌ you would deduct your mortgage interest (as an itemized deduction). You would subtract the costs from the sales price of your home, which lowers any capital gains that you may have.   Taxpayers who are selling their home may qualify to exclude all or part of any gain from the sale from their income when filing their tax return.   If you paid any property taxes, you can deduct the amount you paid for the time you owned your home. You can also deduct the interest on your mortgage for the portion of the year you owned your home. You will deduct these as itemized deductions.   You can enter your sale of home information into TurboTax as follows: Click on the search icon in the upper right of your TurboTax screen Type "sale of home" in the search box Click on the link "Jump to sale of home" Follow the TurboTax screens and answer any follow-up questions regarding your sale   Your TurboTax screen will look something like this:                   Click here for Publication 523, Selling Your Home   Click here for Tax Aspects of Home Ownership: Selling a Home  

Got it thanks, to clarify, if I rent for 4 months, then personal usage for 1 year and rent for another 4 months, the depreciation will restart to accumulate for my 2nd rental, as it should not include my personal use between 2 rentals? let me know if I understand correctly.

If you don't qualify for the Lifetime Learning Credit,  or want to eliminate it, you'll have to delete the forms that are related to education credits.  If you see form 8863 and form 1098-T, delete them. Click here for instructions

To enter, edit or delete a form 1099-R - Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home and Business) Click on Wages and Income (Personal Income using Home and Business) Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown) Scroll down to Retirement Plans and Social Security On IRA, 401(k), Pension Plan Withdrawals (1099-R), click the start or update button

If you read my response that is exactly what I said....I responded specifically about Georgia as I have not filed returns in other states, but provided that the capability might be there for mandatory (state required) PDF attachments... If you are a Intuit employee, you might want to share your knowledge about these "one off" exceptions with other support employees because, I called several times in prior years and I got zero help as they had no clue that GA accepted mandatory PDF attachments.  Maybe your response should include the actual list of states and documents allowed to be attached to e-file instead of generalizing and saying flat out that Turbo Tax does not allowed attachments.

You will have to contact TurboTax support for assistance for this issue. See this TurboTax support FAQ for contacting support - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/turbotax-phone-number/L0Od33nMQ_US_en_US?uid=lfgviwbm

Have you entered information about your military status in the Personal Info section of TurboTax, and have you checked that your W-2 is for active duty pay? I am unable to recreate the situation you describe.    I would like to take a deeper look at this. However, I need a diagnostic file which is a copy of your tax return that has all of your personal information removed. You can send one to us by following the directions below:   TurboTax Online: Sign into your online account. Locate the Tax Tools on the left-hand side of the screen. A drop-down will appear. Select Tools On the pop-up screen, click on “Share my file with agent.” This will generate a message that a diagnostic file gets sanitized and transmitted to us. Please provide the Token Number that was generated in the response. TurboTax Desktop/Download Versions: Open your return. Click the Online tab in the black bar across the top of TurboTax and select “Send Tax File to Agent” * This will generate a message that a diagnostic copy will be created.  Click on OK and the tax file will be sanitized and transmitted to us. Please provide the Token Number (including the dash) that was generated in the response. *(If using a MAC, go to the menu at the top of the screen, select Help, then, “Send Tax File to Agent”)  

Did you follow the instructions as noted in the following TurboTax support FAQ?  You should get Status of your state returns screen after clicking on State on the left side menu.  Then you can click on the trash can symbol for the state you want to delete. https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/state-taxes/delete-state-return-turbotax-online/L8v9awRbh_US_en_US?uid=m97mb8lx

If the W-2 was uploaded or imported, please delete and type it in.  If Box 19 shows an amount (local income tax) Box 18 should show that much or more.    In other words, if Box 19 shows $100 Detroit city tax withheld, Box 18 showing Detroit wages must be 100 or more.   

Report IRS form Schedule K-1 by following these steps:   Across the top of the screen, click on Federal Taxes. Across the top of the screen, click on Wages & Income. Select I'll choose what I work on. Scroll down to Business Items. Click to the right of Schedule K-1. At the screen Tell us about your Schedule K-1, you tell the software which Schedule K-1 you received. For several screens, you will be entering data right off the K-1 form.

Hi Turbotax expert,   I asked the tax payer why there is a difference of $6.37 between Box 1 and sum of Box 2a and Box 5 in my 1099-R form. The payer say the form is correct. Their explanation is that Box 5 is only for Roth contribution. The $6.37 is not included in the Box 5 because it as transferred to my Traditional IRA (Indeed, I confirmed that amount was transferred into my Traditional IRA). The explanation is reasonable to me.   The issue here is that it seems Turbotax is not able to accept or process this case where Box 1 and sum of Box 2a and Box 5 and thus calculated a wrong taxable amount of  $188.00, rather than accept the correct amount $90.88 in Box 2a. How should I file my tax return to make Turbotax understand this situation and accept the correct taxable amount as in Box 2a?   Thanks!