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Cryptocurrency gains and losses are not reported on schedule C unless investing is your day to day business (you are a day trader and that is your job).   The requirements to be be considered a schedule C self-employed investor are complicated and I don't know them all.  Here is a quote from a previous expert answer: Traders Special rules apply if you're a trader in securities, in the business of buying and selling securities for your own account. The law considers this to be a business, even though a trader doesn't maintain an inventory and doesn't have customers. To be engaged in business as a trader in securities, you must meet all the following conditions: You must seek to profit from daily market movements in the prices of securities and not from dividends, interest, or capital appreciation; Your activity must be substantial; and You must carry on the activity with continuity and regularity. The following facts and circumstances should be considered in determining if your activity is a securities trading business: Typical holding periods for securities bought and sold; The frequency and dollar amount of your trades during the year; The extent to which you pursue the activity to produce income for a livelihood; and The amount of time you devote to the activity. If the nature of your trading activities doesn't qualify as a business, you're considered an investor and not a trader. It doesn't matter whether you call yourself a trader or a day trader, you're an investor. A taxpayer may be a trader in some securities and may hold other securities for investment. The special rules for traders don't apply to those securities held for investment. A trader must keep detailed records to distinguish the securities held for investment from the securities in the trading business. The securities held for investment must be identified as such in the trader's records on the day he or she acquires them (for example, by holding them in a separate brokerage account). https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-credits-deductions/discussion/schedule-c-for-personal-investing/00/3083177   If you are not a schedule C self-employed investor, then your gains and losses are reported on schedule D as with any other capital gains and losses.  You can deduct losses up to the amount of your gains plus $3000, if your losses are more than that, they carry forward to the next year.   If you have already been working with a CPA, you should go back to them, you already paid for their advice and they have a duty to get it right for you. 

You can donate items but the deduction would not be from your business income itself but rather an itemized deduction on your personal return just as any other similar charitable deduction.  You might have difficulty deducting something that cost more than the income from what you are testing.  However you can deduct a business use percentage of your internet, computer and monitor expenses required for your Amazon Vine business activity. 

There's a new Simple Payment plan option that allows a longer period of time to pay. You must owe the IRS no more than $50,000 in assessed taxes, penalties, and interest, and be up-to-date on filing your tax returns. Keep in mind that the longer you take to pay it off, the more interest and penalties can accrue. You can apply online here.  @user17581271732 

the 1099-B does not reflect the correct tax basis because the broker does not get the k-1 and therefore can't adjust your basis for the partnership activity. All I have ever seen on the 1099-B is the original tax basis (what you paid). In the k-1 package there should be a supplemental sales schedule which should provide all the info needed to correctly report gain/loss on sale including any section 751 recapture also reported on line 20AB, if any.       another way to figure you correct tax basis is from schedule L of the k-1 capital contributed should be what you paid + current year income - current year loss - line 19a withdrawals and distributions + the amount, if any, from 20AB this is reported on the 1099B/8949 not in the sales section of the k-1. type B proceeds but not tax basis reported to the iRS   only the amount on 20AB,if any,  is reported as ordinary income through the k-1 sales section

If you never filed, you don’t file an amended return, you file an original return.  There is no deadline, but any refund that might be due won’t be paid if the return is filed more than 3 years after the due date.   Amended returns to correct a previous return can be filed any time, but any refund that might be due won’t be paid if the amended return is filed more than 3 years after the due date, or more than 2 years after the original return was filed if it was filed late.   I would recommend filing a correct return so that all the correct information is on file, even if a refund can’t be paid because of the time limit.   I can’t address the body of your question because it is too confused and non-specific.  Whether or not you can deduct crypto losses depends on how you use the crypto (to invest and hold, or use for purchases).  If you have crypto investments, self employment, and wages, that should all be reported on one single tax return that combines all your income, deductions, credits and dependents.  

Submitted my 2024 federal income tax return (married, filing jointly).   I provided the 2023 AGI from line 11, Form 1040 (same for taxpayer and spouse, right?) Also, provided signature PIN's (for taxpayer and spouse used in 2022 e-file) - although I filed my 2023 federal income tax return by MAIL back in April of 2025.   I just checked the IRS database by logging into my Personal IRS account and it seems the 2023 AGI matches the one in the 2023 Income Tax Form copy we kept for our records.   My wife just checked the IRS database by logging into her Personal IRS account and it seems the 2023 AGI matches the one in the 2023 Income Tax Form copy we kept for our records as well.   This is the error code I received:   IND-032-04 - 'SpousePriorYearPIN' or 'SpousePriorYearAGIAmt' in the Return Header must match the e-File database.   Also, Turbotax says that "The IRS Couldn't Confirm" my wife's identity - Asking to enter 2023 AGI...   A bit confusing since both my signature PIN and AGI entry worked for me? but the wife's entries did not work.   Should I try to enter 0 for AGI for the wife and or delete the signature PIN we used in the 2022 e-file since we filed our 2023 income tax return by MAIL?    

When I log into Intuit it shows my license file. It says I have installed it on one computer. When I open TurboTax 2024 it shows me my license file. I click on that license file and say register. I instantly get a message that says that the license file is invalid. This only happened after it did an update. I had previously run TurboTax 2024 on this computer with no issues.

And if you do end up suing TTX "Online" for 2025.   You can save a PDF copy of all your tax forms and worksheets to examine before filing using the Online software. BUT It's just not as interactive as the Desktop saoftware....in that: You have to pay the software fees before saving and looking at a PDF copy of whatever you've done so far.  You can do that at any time in your tax preparations, after paying the fees, but then you use the Print Center to create a PDF copy to look at.  SO if you create a PDF multiple times during your preparations, it would be good to save them with different names...or numbering them so that you know which PDF is the last one created  (or just delete the older ones if you create a bunch at different stages of your preparations).