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Merci! je comprends que je suis tot mais l'objectif est justement de faire de la planification aussi des impots dues (en Janvier / février) et c'est problèmatique dans ma progression avec ce bug majeur(TP-128 Manquant que je dois utiliser un autre outil pour l'estimatation. je vais être patient!

If you are working in forms, right-click directly on the "0" (or the box containing it). Select Override from the menu. The box should turn red (this is normal; it indicates a manual entry). Hit Delete or Backspace on your keyboard to clear the zero entirely. The box must be empty/blank, not a zero.

Thanks, M9241, that was very helpful. Just a couple details to clarify and then it's closed. The only help I got from TT phone support was a suggestion to look at the actual forms. She said the reason Wifey's calculation reverted to mine was that mine was the best option. I said I didn't believe her. Then she wanted me to click the $60 dollar button for competent help. So I was working through the forms manually when I saw your post. The HSA family max still applied until I went on Medicare in October; then Wifey went to single rate and I could no longer contribute. (I had mistakenly thought my wife's entire 2025 contribution was limited to single 4300 rate). I can still contribute for the 9 months before I went on Medicare, provided I pay before tax time. Form 8889 (you should have it open while reading all this...) is done twice, once for me and once for Wifey. For me, line 3 takes the family max 8550 x 9/12 = 6413. Then for Wifey it takes 8550 x 9/12 (family rate) + 4300 x 3/12 (individual rate) = 7488. (TT gathers this info each month, just as you said.) But we can't BOTH contribute those amounts. There is a comparison to see which choice is better, which is the wife at 7488. So IRS takes MY 6413 to zero on line 6, but carries through Wifey's 7488 to her line 6.  Then line 7 Wifey gets an extra 1000 due to age. My line 7 gets 1000 x 9/12 = 750. So the final 8889 line 13 says 750 on mine, and 8488 on Wifey's. So, a total family contribution of $9238 out of the original 10,550 maximum. It seems like that works, and I have until filing date to finish the contributions. TT "maximum contribution for James is 7163" is an interesting screw-up. On the 8889 form, which TT filled out correctly automatically, they took my line 6 to zero as stated, and added the 750 in line 7; the form shows a total of 750.  Again, TT 8889 shows my contribution at $750, but the software outputs $7163. Bad programming, boys and girls. But look! if we keep the 6413 from line 5, and add the 750, that's 7163. So TT runs through the calcs, and says (DOESN'T SAY) if Dad would make the entire family HSA contribution, he can do 7163, and Wifey is limited to 1000 in addition, for a total family contribution of $8163. Then TT looks at Wifey's 8889, takes away my 6413 to use her 7488, and, if the software wasn't stuck in a loop, TT should say if Wifey would make the family HSA contribution she can do 8488, and Dad is limited to 750 in addition, for a total family contribution of $9238. This is your MAXIMUM family HSA contribution.  so, yeah, really glad for the reminder to look directly at the tax forms, and your explanation of the proportional months was very helpful.  Best of luck and encouragement to all as we fight this software together!

You can't enter those expenses yet. This is a known glitch in TurboTax (TT). They are working on it (no announced fix date).   The 2025 education and 529 sections appear totally redesigned, from last year. 

If any of you who are being rejected by the IRS for this reason have EVER set up a marketplace account, even if you didn’t get insurance, they might have you flagged as having it. Call marketplace & have them check. My DIL had this happen & they had her 1095A hidden, so she couldn’t see it until she called them. It won’t help with the TT problem, but perhaps it will save you the issue on other returns! 

According to information from the IRS, the Clean Vehicle Seller Report is to be submitted within 3 days according to this IRS website.   From that website:  "For eligible clean vehicles acquired before Sept. 30, 2025, you must submit all reports through IRS Energy Credits Online within 3 calendar days of the date the buyer takes possession of the vehicle."   While the IRS does state that the reports need to be submitted withing 3 calendar days, they do state that it is possible to submit a "corrected" report after those 3 days.   General guidance is to wait at least 15 days for the IRS to process electronically filed forms, however, that amount of time could increase during peak filing season times.

"I had an RMD for 2024 of $543.00. (RMD on the form 1099-R, which is coded 4.)  I actually took out $3410.60.   So, on Line 4B, the excess is 2,867.60."   That can't be right.  It's impossible to believe that the taxable amount is the difference between $3,410.60 and $543.  The RMD amount is not basis (unless the decedent had basis in nondeductible traditional IRA contributions and you did a tricky calculation to figure the amount that you needed to take out so that the nontaxable amount exactly equaled the RMD, but I can see no point in doing that).  In all likelihood the decedent had no basis in nondeductible traditional IRA contributions and the entire $3,410.60 should be appearing on Form 1040 line 4b.   As to your questions, unless you are the surviving spouse of the decedent who was the original owner, whatever amount you put into a Roth IRA is an ordinary  Roth IRA contribution, the same as you could do with any cash that you had.  It can't be a Roth conversion because a non-spouse beneficiary is not permitted to roll over or convert any part of a distribution.  If you are the surviving spouse of the decedent, the $2,867.60 that was put into the Roth IRA could instead be treated as a Roth conversion.

If you are a self employed hairdresser you do not get a W2! You have to keep a record of your income & tips. Schedule 1A should be the place to enter your “No Tax on Tips” exemption. Turbo Tax Home and Business will not let me enter my wife’s tips. it says that self employed can not get the tip exemption but IRS publications says you can. Please help us enter this tip exemption, want to file our Taxes.

I see exactly where you are saying to delete the form, but when you click on delete you get another error message saying this form cannot be deleted.  I have used Turbo Tax for many years and have never had an issue.  Very disappointed that Turbo Tax is not correcting this. Talking to other people, they are not having issues with other tax programs.  Since I purchase the business program I do not want to change but might have to.