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@RobertB4444  - I am using TurboTax Desktop on a Mac. I believe your recommended solution was assuming that I am using a browser? Could you please provide guidance on how to add investment income on an amended tax return for 2024?

They are updating after some people have already received their money. I still don't have mine and should have got them 5 days ago which is what I paid for but I have a dd date of February 25 2026 which is today so turbotax basically ripped me off and I want a refund cause I didn't get them the 20th im going elsewhere next year I applied for the advance that I always get every year but they said I didn't and now this!! So now I want my money back that I paid to get them early and they have lost a customer ive used Turbotax for the past 10 years not next year

I had same problem. I finally solved it. I left easy step and went to the forms. On the Capital Asset Sales Entry   worksheet I noticed I had 33 lines of sales transactions.  They were all listed under the Quick Entry Table.  I guess smart check looked like it was stuck in a loop but was actually doing each line that needed the no box checked.  When I clicked in the Quick Entry Table I noticed a scroll bar on the right.  I was then able to scroll down and see each entry in the table and click the NO box for the digital asset.  Once I did this, turbo tax was happy.  When I clicked the last NO box I also noticed the red exclamation point that had been showing next to the form name also went away. 

Im in Texas, we don't have state taxes. And the only number i see is the federal refund amount. I paid with my credit card...so no money is going to be taken out. Its officially been 15days, still nothing... I can't even pull up my return from the turbotax app/website.

The loss does not affect the SE tax; only taxable income and the QBI deduction are affected. the loss should flow to form 4797 (not schedule C). that loss does not flow to schedules C or SE.    from schedule SE instructions page 4 Income and Losses Not Included in Net Earnings From Self-Employment  8. Gain or loss from: a. The sale or exchange of a capital asset; b. The sale, exchange, involuntary conversion, or other disposition of property unless the property is stock in trade or other property that would be includible in inventory, or held primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of the business; or

OK, so here's a funny thing.   It's NOT just TurboTax doing this. I use H&R Block Deluxe (standalone program, not web version). I filed our taxes on Feb. 5. No return yet, and finally the IRS is saying something like "Your return is taking longer to process." So I kept digging and found out how to get my "tax transcript" from the IRS. Right away I noticed a line that says "Main Home in US:   No" on it.   Apparently when the "Where's my refund" site has that wording, that means the return is under manual review, and I bet this is why. In my H&R Block software, I told it that we lived in the US. I dug through all the EIC stuff in the program, even though we don't qualify for it, and can't find any references to living outside the US.   So I bet the IRS has to manually correct that on my return and probably millions of others as well. Thankfully the Tax Transcript also says "Processing Date" and "Refund Issued" date as March 16, 2026. I'm hoping that means the return will show up then.   REALLY weird that this isn't just a TurboTax issue.

if you used the standard mileage method, TurboTax does not include depreciation in calculating gain/ loss. you have to calculate it using each year's mileage rate found in Pub 463 page 35 https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p463.pdf  also if there was personal mileage, you can only take a loss on the business portion, which is figured by multiplying its cost by the business mileage all years divided by total mileage all years. the trade-in value would also be prorated the same way.   for the personal portion, if any, gain is taxable, while any loss is not deductible.  

Thank you for your very informative answer.  Do I not need to provide the list of all the individual trades?  Somewhere in TurboTax, after entering the totals, I was prompted to mail in the 8949 listing all individual trades.

@CB1946 is it a State Street fund by any chance?  They definitely have errors in the data on their website  for the qualified percentage.  (see the "ICI Tax Summary" spreadsheets near the bottom of https://www.ssga.com/us/en/individual)  For a clean example of the problem, if you look at SPDW they show 71.76% of Box 1A income is foreign, and 0% of Box 1A is qualified, therefore 71.76% of Box 1A must be non-qualified.  But it can't possibly be that high, because we know that Box 1B is 55.82% of Box 1A, which caps non-qualified at only 44.18%.  The math is broken in exactly the way your original post described.  The other big companies I looked at including Vanguard, Blackrock, ProShares and Franklin Templeton all publish non-zero values for their foreign qualified dividend percentages, even for funds that are very similar to State Street's.  So if your fund is State Street, I'd push them harder to provide correct data, otherwise you'll end up overstating your foreign source income on line 1a of your 1116, which could result in you claiming a foreign tax credit that is higher than you are entitled to.   If you aren't with State Street... um... I guess I just wasted a couple of hours trying to figure this out!