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@trapezewdc wrote: Thanks.   Following up on my question 1. Let's say I "paper-file" the 2025 tax return. Can I do that with my baby as a dependent without my foreign national spouse ? If so, what filing status can I use ? Yes, your child can be your dependent regardless of whether you file as married filing jointly or married filing separately.  You don't need to include your spouse in order to claim your child.  

I responded to the other thread you started prior to reading your post in this thread.   Given the fact that the initial transfer was motivated by his illness (that presumably could result in death), it could be argued that a gift was not the intent unless he passed during the time you were the remainderman. In other words, that the "gift" of the remainder was contingent upon his passing but not effective if he did not pass. A gift contingent upon an event occurring is NOT a completed gift and is not treated as such legally unless and until that event actually does occur.   Regardless of how this matter is treated, the only thing you need to be concerned with in the transfer is filing a 709 for the gift of the remainder back to the grantor (the son). If you haven't exceeded your lifetime exemption, you will owe no tax.

@Kaybru20 wrote: We live in RI Rhode Island does not recognize Lady Bird (Enhanced Life Estate) deeds. As a result, the life estate that was granted to you was a gift (not taxable unless the lifetime exemption is exceeded, which Is $13.99 million per individual for 2025 gifts).   If you quitclaim it back to him (the grantor), that would be a gift as well (unless he pays full consideration for the transfer). You will not pay any income tax nor gift tax unless, with respect to the latter, you have exceeded your (unified) lifetime estate and gift tax exemption) but you will have to file a Form 709 if the value exceeds $19,000 for the tax year.

And how much is the loss?   Did you have any sales with gains?   If you have investment sale losses, after you subtract the losses from your gains then if you have a net loss, you can only deduct up to 3,000 per year.  The rest you have to carryover over to the next year.   So you might want to amend 2024 also.      You have to report the carryover every year until it's used up.  You can't skip a year.  Even if you don't report it on your return you have to reduce it by the 3,000 (1,500 MFS) when you carry it over to next year.  You can't choose when to use it.

To access your current or prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the User ID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/ Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and on the section Your tax returns & documents.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)

If you did not file a 2024 tax return then there cannot be a transcript--it does not exist.    There may be  a verification of non-filing in your account.     https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript  

  You have to access your own account and/or  print it for yourself using exactly the same account and user ID that you used when you prepared the return.    https://myturbotax.intuit.com/       https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/prior-year-return/help/how-do-i-access-my-prior-year-return/01/27010     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m5y4ch1y   Many people have multiple TT accounts and forget how to access them.  Log out of the account you are in now.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/many-intuit-accounts-turbotax/L9aVfKS1Z_US_en_US?uid=ll5g6zcx Account Recovery     Or did you use the desktop version of TurboTax?  If so, the files are on your own hard drive or any backup device you used like a flash drive.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/find-last-year-tax-data-file-tax-file-computer/L0XJvPaJr_US_en_US?uid=m6gufxei     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/data-systems/find-tax-data-file-mac/L4VNGm33S_US_en_US?uid=m6guhab0 You can get a free transcript from the IRS or for a fee of $30, an actual copy of your tax return. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf       SAVE YOUR TAX RETURNS ! EVERY year before mid-October you should save a copy of your tax return as a pdf and print a copy of it for your records.  That way you will not be searching online frantically when you need it for a lender, FAFSA forms, your next tax return, etc.    https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m6guj526   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m78eb8pc In order to transfer a past year return to the new return you need the tax file   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-turbotax-online-return-tax-data-file/L4xwOG3LF_US_en_US?uid=m6guk3xl   NOTE:  TurboTax and the IRS save returns for seven years.  Returns older than seven years are purged.      

  You have to access your own account and/or  print it for yourself using exactly the same account and user ID that you used when you prepared the return.    https://myturbotax.intuit.com/       https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/prior-year-return/help/how-do-i-access-my-prior-year-return/01/27010     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m5y4ch1y   Many people have multiple TT accounts and forget how to access them.  Log out of the account you are in now.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/many-intuit-accounts-turbotax/L9aVfKS1Z_US_en_US?uid=ll5g6zcx Account Recovery     Or did you use the desktop version of TurboTax?  If so, the files are on your own hard drive or any backup device you used like a flash drive.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/find-last-year-tax-data-file-tax-file-computer/L0XJvPaJr_US_en_US?uid=m6gufxei     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/data-systems/find-tax-data-file-mac/L4VNGm33S_US_en_US?uid=m6guhab0 You can get a free transcript from the IRS or for a fee of $30, an actual copy of your tax return. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf       SAVE YOUR TAX RETURNS ! EVERY year before mid-October you should save a copy of your tax return as a pdf and print a copy of it for your records.  That way you will not be searching online frantically when you need it for a lender, FAFSA forms, your next tax return, etc.    https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m6guj526   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m78eb8pc In order to transfer a past year return to the new return you need the tax file   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-turbotax-online-return-tax-data-file/L4xwOG3LF_US_en_US?uid=m6guk3xl   NOTE:  TurboTax and the IRS save returns for seven years.  Returns older than seven years are purged.      

I manually entered them. I use the online version on my desktop computer, I don’t purchase the software or anything because I only do our individual taxes not anyone else’s. If that answers your question. So even when I go through turbo tax now to try to amend the taxes, I had do download the software from 2022 and even after reentering my 1099r’s, it continues to to put the direct rollover amounts into the 1040 in line 5b. I just don’t get it. Short of filing on paper which I don’t want to do because i feel like it’s not as streamlined,  I’m not sure what other options I have. The way I ended it with the tax expert from Turbo tax yesterday was she was going to continue working on figuring out why this keeps happening and call me today, my only concern with that is right after we hung up I received an email from turbo tax saying my case number for my issue was closed. So I’m not sure why it was closed before a resolution and before I got the callback I was promised

TurboTax does not have a copy of the W-2 or Form 1099. It would have a Form W-2 Wage and Tax Statement that included the tax data from the forms that were entered. The forms would be included in the PDF of the tax return in the tax year the return was completed. Copies of a Form 1099 would have to obtained from the issuer of the form.   To access your current or prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the User ID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/ Scroll down to the section Your tax returns & documents. Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)   If you cannot obtain the W-2 from your employer, then for a fee you can get a complete copy of a W-2 from the Social Security Administration - https://faq.ssa.gov/en-us/Topic/article/KA-02501   You can get a free Wage and Income transcript from the IRS - https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript   For a fee of $30 you can get a complete federal tax return to include copies of W-2's, if you mailed the tax return and included a paper W-2, from the IRS by completing Form 4506 - http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf   See this IRS Tax Topic - http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc159.html