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Once your return is filed, TurboTax has no control over the processing or the timing when the IRS releases your refund.    The IRS states that most federal tax refunds are issued within 21 days of acceptance, however, some may take longer if they require additional review. Also, by law, the IRS cannot issue EITC or ACTC refunds before mid-February. This applies to your entire refund, not just the portion related to those specific credits.   Here are a few FAQs to help you track your refund: When will I get my federal tax refund? How do I track my state refund? Why does Where's My Refund say "approved" but TurboTax still says "accepted"? Why do some refunds take longer than others? What if my IRS refund is taking longer than 21 days?

To enter your medical expenses - Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home and Business) Click on Deductions and Credits Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown) Scroll down to Medical On Medical Expenses, click the start or update button

In TurboTax Online, you can't see the forms.  However, you can review the main forms by going to the left-side menu to Tax Tools > Tools and choose 'View Tax Summary' at the pop-up. Then back at the left-side menu, look for 'Preview my 1040' and 'CA Tax Summary'. After you pay (before you file) you can review a PDF copy of your return (and worksheets) from the File section.   You definitely can delete your state return and step through it again to repopulate it.  In the State section, use the Trash Can Icon to delete it on the 'Status of your State Return' page.   If you stopped renting the property in 2023, you can't just delete it in 2024,  you need to state what happened with it.  You can choose 'converted to personal use' as an option, which would include you living in it, or fixing it up prior to sale.    The 'non-qualified use' would be the time you didn't live in the home (rental period 1997-2023). Since you rented for a long period and have mostly depreciated the original value of the home over the years, make sure to add the cost of any improvements and sales expenses to the Cost Basis when reporting the sale to lower your Capital Gain.  Remember that Capital Gain is maxed at 20% and can be anywhere from 0%, depending on your income.  If you had losses over the years you weren't able to claim, these are also added to the Cost Basis to reduce gain.  Here's more info on How Capital Gains are Taxed.   @billOst 

@DaveF1006 - Does this same rule apply when you have Dividends and capital gains/ losses for a Trading account outside US or does the individual have to log it as a 1099 along with the regular investment section.  I had logged it there for both INT, DIV and Capital gains and system took it even without entering the firm EIN number. I just want to ensure I am doing it correctly

Standard deductions for 2025 Single - $15.750 add $2,000 if age 65 or older Married Filing Separately - $15,750 add $1,600 if age 65 or older Married Filing Jointly - $31,500 add $1,600 for each spouse age 65 or older Head of Household - $23,625 add $2,000 if age 65 or older

Appreciated - I'm no expert just trying to understand the logic of form 4797 and cols d,e,f,g - specifically  what went into putting together the ACB so we can see what we may be missing, if anything,  for our Canadian tax return.  However, why would two lines show- as an example - :  Cols            d [sale price]    e [CCA total]        f-ACB       g [col d+e-f] total sale          600k                 100k                   710k            -10k  land value       100k                                                75k             25k    Form 4787 - Pas 1 and II The way the outcome is reported with a Capital gain of [-10+25] = 15k  when it seems like if you deducted the land values from the top line - since they area already included in both the sale price and 710k f-ACB  for the same property being sold for a total price of 600k.  So the sold [100k] and purchased [75k] values of the land are already in the total values in the upper line columns d and f respectively.  Why not simply present this as two individual lines of a single line as follows - resulting in a -10k LOSS rather than a 15k gain???   SUGGESTED WAY IT WOULD LOGICALLY BE PRESENTED  2 Lines - separating CCA-related info and land Cols               d [sale $$}    e [CCA total]           f-ACB       g [col d+e-f] non-land sale  500k                 100k                   635k            -35k  land value       100k                                                75k             25k **************** net   _____________________________    -10k - which goes to L7 down below on form 4797        ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OR as a single line Added lines    600k                 100k                   710k            -10k   Alternately- bottom line is no tax due to Feds and minor amount to State - so just be quiet and let it ride???

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Yes but you can only transfer 2024 into a brand new tax return before you start entering 2025 info.  So for Online you would have to clear and start over.     How to Transfer into the Online version https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/entering-importing/help/how-do-i-transfer-last-year-s-return-into-turbotax-online/00/25953 How to Transfer into the Windows Desktop program https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/entering-importing/help/transfer-last-year-s-return-to-turbotax-for-windows/00/26145 How to Transfer into the Mac Desktop program https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-data-file/help/how-do-i-transfer-last-year-s-return-into-the-turbotax-for-mac-software/00/26062

@mauel      Looks like it was a problem last year too...NOBODY bothered to fix it??   Solved: Part Year Resident for NC and NY- Taxes witheld for NC on W2, NC Refund not calculating correctly as I lived there only about 2 months, TurboTax says I owe money to NC ___________________________ @Karis_F   PLEASE report this for getting fixed.  People shouldn't have to be guessing that the first line has to be Not-NC income.  It should work no matter what order the amounts are entered in the W-2 allocation screen.

It depends on what kind of code you have.   If you have a License Code, this is for Desktop software; and if you have an Activation Code, this is for Online software.   These are different software's and codes from one cannot be used in the other one.    For TurboTax Online, you can activate your code to your account on this link.    For TurboTax Desktop, you can download/install your software from this link. 

No.  The control number in box d of the W-2 is not needed to complete and file a tax return.  You can leave it blank (empty). If this does not clear the error then you need to delete the W-2 and re-enter manually.