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You are right, It appears the issue is tied to the number of months the vehicle is in service. For example: With a purchase date of January 1, 2024, and all other factors unchanged, the business-use percentage calculates to 58% as I expected, which qualifies for the preferential depreciation method. With a purchase date of December 30, 2024, under the same conditions, the business-use percentage drops to just 4.97%, which does not qualify for the preferential depreciation method. This suggests that vehicles purchased late in the year are effectively penalized, since the business-use percentage must be much higher—closer to 95%—to be recalculated by TurboTax over 50% threshold on Line 9 of Turbotax Car and Truck Expense Worksheet (that gets put on 4562). I also noticed that answering “Yes” to the question “Did you track the miles driven for personal use?” eliminates the purchase date as a factor. However, in TurboTax this option only appears when the vehicle is newly created. If the vehicle is simply edited, the question does not show up anymore—requiring the truck to be deleted and re-entered in order to access it. Screenshot here (edit&new workflow):    

If already activated and operating, 2021 should continue to work just fine.  Generally, it is just for new installations on new computers that won't work .  (or full re-installation on the same computer)   My 2020 desktop Premier is still working perfectly.    _____________________  A few folks with already working/installed desktop software of any year, have reported they get an unusual prompt to re-enter their code....for some unknown reason....if that kind of event happens after 2021 is taken down, then the software will probably stop working, even if it was already installed and working prior to that.   Not sure what causes that, but it's never happened to me on my W10 or W11 computers.

@mmdannunzio  Well...check again before printing and mailing.   Did you make any actual entries that were over 9,999,999.99.  TTX software can't take any numbers over that amount  That sometimes happens to folks who sold appreciated stock, even if the gain wasn't that large......or a home, farm, or small business operation sale with sales price very large.  _______________ For a large stock transactions, people get around it by entering two separate transactions (unequal) on the same date that  total the same...as long as the final total "gain" isn't over that amount.  

 Only the IRS is in control of issuing your refund.   To check on regular tax refund status via automated phone, call 800-829-1954.   Federal and state refunds come from completely separate entities.  There is no rule as to which one will come in first or how long it will be between their arrival in your account.   TurboTax gives you an estimated date for receiving your refund based on a 21 day average from your date of acceptance, but it can take longer.  “21 days”  is not a promise from TurboTax or the IRS.      First, check your e-file status to see if your return was accepted:  https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/efile-status-lookup/   Once your federal return has been accepted by the IRS, only the IRS has any control.  TurboTax does not receive any updates from the IRS. Your ONLY source of information about your refund now is the IRS.     You need your filing status, your Social Security number and the exact amount  (line 35a of your 2024 Form 1040) of your federal refund to track your Federal refund:    https://www.irs.gov/refunds   To track your state refund:     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/track-state-refund/L3jgO8PGs_US_en_US?uid=lt447ebr   If you chose to have your TurboTax fees deducted from your federal refund, that will take some extra time, while the third party bank handles the refund processing     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/refunds-take-longer-others/L14YlqFrH_US_en_US?uid=lexdr7zh . https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/irs-refund-taking-longer-21-days/L2vRAJbdU_US_en_US?uid=lexe7lst    

First, you need to be sure your return was successfully filed. It depends on how you chose to file the return.   If you filed a paper return by mail, TurboTax does not mail it for you.  If you chose that method, you would have had to print it, sign it, date it, and mail it yourself.  It takes at least 4 weeks for a mailed return to show up in the IRS WMR tool.     If you efiled, double-check to be sure the return was efiled successfully and accepted.  If you used Online TurboTax, you can sign into your Online Account and check the efile status at the Tax Home.   What word is used there for the status:  accepted, rejected, printed, started, ready to mail, or something else? If the Tax Home shows it was accepted, (or if you mailed a paper return), you can use the "Where's My Refund" tool at the IRS website below to monitor the status of your Federal refund.   Is there any message there? https://www.irs.gov/wheres-my-refund   Here are some tips when using that IRS tool:   Be sure you enter the correct tax year, SSN, and filing status. Be sure you are using only the Federal refund amount.   Do not include any state refund or any total refund or net refund (Fed and State) that TurboTax may have provided on a summary screen.   Look at your actual Federal return to get the Federal refund amount to use in the tool, i.e., your Form 1040, Line 35a.

It's unlikely Intuit will reverse course they've been decisioning this all year (the article below used to say "may restrict" for many months), so hoping for that is not a good plan; desktop is less than 1% of their revenue, 5% of total TurboTax revenue, declining 5% while online/live is increasing 10% annually.  Per their latest quarterly results, they've no problem "yielding share for low average revenue per return users" (desktop and even some online) if revenue is growing at a clip elsewhere.  So don't look to INTU shareholders for help - things like mailchimp are moving the stock, no one cares about Windows 10 (or ItsDeductible).  They have all the numbers and have likely projected most will simply upgrade to 11 and move on, some will move to online, some will move to H&R Block - and some of those will come back in 2026 when this all blows over - and they don't care as long as online revenue keeps growing and probably determined it wasn't worthwhile to deliver and support s/w on an unsupported OS (ESU is not "extended support" just critical/important security patches), for what will be a small % of their users by Feb.  We'll see in a year how it all falls out, but very likely a non-issue if not a revenue boost for Intuit.   So Intuit's position is clear - they aggressively remove unsupported OS (do it every year for MacOS), upgrade and use it or not, they don't care.  Meanwhile, you presumably need a solution for your machine by October 2026 regardless of how you do your taxes; to use Turbo you just need to have a new machine 6 months sooner than otherwise.  You can do all these workarounds or disrupt your tax prep process but you'll need a new machine a few months after you file if it can't handle Win 11.   Personally I think it's unlikely TT will work on Win 10 without some sort of hack, Intuit has stated "You won’t be able to install or use TurboTax Desktop 2025 on Windows 10." and even if you get it to download and install you have to activate the software I would imagine the activation server will check the OS version.  Even if you get past all that, you'll be unsupported by both Intuit and MS, if you have any sort of issue with installation, importing 1099s, updates, forms, filing then the response is going to be you shouldn't be running it on Win 10 whether that's the issue or not.  But it certainly seems worthwhile waiting a few months either way to confirm final direction by MS, Intuit and H&R Block.   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/download-products/end-support-windows-8-affect-turbotax-experience/L4v9atO3O_US_en_US

Q. If I held a stock that went bankrupt and worthless in my IRA (or Rollover IRA), can I deduct it from my taxes? A. No.    There will just be less money in  the account, to pay tax on, when you do start to withdraw it after age 59.5. 

No.   You cannot deduct anything on your tax return for holdings that went down within your retirement account.  The values of stocks and other funds that are within your retirement account will fluctuate with the market over the years.  You do not deduct anything for losses within the retirement account nor do you pay tax for gains in the market while the funds are just being held within your retirement account.  Someday when you take  distribution(s)  from the retirement account, you will get a 1099R and pay tax on the money you took out.