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Are you using the Online version or the Desktop installed program?   Online is only good for 1 return per account.  So each return and account are separate.  Are you in California?   Audit Defense is included in California if you want to have the Turbo Tax fees deducted from your refund.   BUT there is an Extra $40 Refund Processing Service charge (45 in California) to have the fees deducted which you can avoid by paying the fees upfront with a credit card.   Same for the Desktop program.  You can do unlimited returns and efile 5 federal for free.   State is $25 to efile each return including the first one.   Each return is separate and won’t get Audit Defense for free depending on how you file and pay.  

If you follow the guidance that VolvoGirl gave, the self-employed health insurance deduction for the net premiums you paid would appear on Schedule 1 line 17 and Form 1040 line 10.  You can double check that the correct amounts showed up by doing a preview of your return.  If you use TurboTax online, you can follow these steps to preview your return:   Scroll down on the left side menu, then click on Tax Tools, then click on Tools right below that. From the Tools Center pop-up, click on View Tax Summary You can click on Preview my 1040 on the left side menu to see the Forms 1040 and Schedule 1 Click on Back on the left side menu to return back to Interview/input mode. For TurboTax Desktop, you can click on Forms in the blue banner at the upper right, and then select the forms you want to view from the listing on the right.   But also, if you were paying $400/month for health care coverage and Form 8962 determines that you have received too much PTC of $50/month, then your actual monthly payment would be $400+$50 or $450/month.  Any amount of PTC that you are required to pay back could be claimed as additional expense for Self Employed Health Insurance.  On the flip side, if you didn't get enough PTC and are getting some back as a credit, that credit would need to be subtracted from your health care payments that you made to get the correct amount of Self Employed Health Insurance deduction.

Cantina, that tip from a previous thread worked!  Thank you SO much!   YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!  If you read this reply, can you reply back to me one more time so that I can amend the title of this particular question to read something like this (so this answer can benefit others searching for this solution)?   "How to view/print current and previous returns with all govt and TT worksheets"   And until TT can fix how this is done (a TT user will not instictively know to select "amend" in order to view/print returns with all TT worksheets), I have documented the steps for future users:   To print (to PDF) returns with all TT worksheets AFTER filing: Current Year  - Go to the section "Your Tax Returns and Documents" and select current year - Do one of the following (depending on what you see) in order to get "Tax Tools" to appear in the left NAV:     + Choose "Add a State"          OR     + Choose "Amend (change) return" - On the left NAV "Tax Tools" should now appear.  Click that and then select "Print Center" - Choose the forms you would like to view/print/download to PDF   Prior Year - Go to the section "Your Tax Returns and Documents" and select the prior year - Click "Amend (change) YYYY return" - Click 'Start an Amendment Online" - On the left NAV "Tax Tools" should now appear.  Click that and then select "Print Center" - Choose the forms you would like to view/print/download to PDF

There were updates yesterday (Thursday) morning, which were installed but didn't fix the problem. There were no new updates today. So the problem remains unsolved: At least for those of us eligible for the special higher mortgage-interest limit (that is, whose original loan was before the end of 2017), Ded Home Mort fails to copy a key piece of data from the 1098 worksheet. That's true regardless of whether the 1098 was uploaded from the bank or entered by hand (I tried both). Fixing the "starting balance" field by override causes everything else to work correctly; not doing that causes TT to make all the mortgage interest nondeductible.

To enter Social Security benefits reported on form SSA-1099 Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home and Business) Click on Wages and Income (Personal Income using Home and Business) Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown) Scroll down to Retirement Plans and Social Security On Social Security (SSA-1099, RRB-1099), click the start or update button

We have already filed our taxes and have received a refund.  We did not realize my wife Business taxes/loss had to be included in our federal taxes.   We are now trying to amend our federal tax return to include her business.  How is this done?  Most of the reporting for the business will be for loss.  Hasn’t really got off the ground yet.

I received a 1099-R showing the distribution and taxes withheld and a Box 7 distribution code of 7.  The distribution was made in error (it was a duplicate of a RMD distribution that had already been made) so the net proceeds were rolled over back into the account (within 60 days).  Form 5498 shows for the tax year shows the rollover amount.  The interview does not ask me the rollover amount as noted in line 7 of your answer.  Why is that?

The best way to verify the link is to switch to Forms Mode (usually a button in the top right of the desktop software):   Open Form 8825.  Look at Line 6 (Auto and travel) or Line 14 (Depreciation). If you chose Actual Expenses, the depreciation portion of the vehicle cost will show up on Line 14, while gas, insurance, and repairs usually roll into Line 6. If the numbers are there, the "link" is working, even if the step-by-step interview isn't prompting you for it anymore.

Thank you for trying to help,  I did call Customer service who tried to help but was of the opinion that my computer for some random reason corrupted the file.  It apparently also decided to to it for my 2023 return!  It seems to me that the update they make you run actually corrupts the file.  Particularly as this was not just my problem.  I have now just gone ahead and started anew without importing.  Thanks again for reaching out to help

Mike; appreciate the reply. I am already dealing with two 1099-DIVs, and TT is unable to process these independently. How would it help to break these into even more 1099-DIVs? I would expect the exact same problem to persist. (I should also add that I have VERY complicated 1099-DIVs, so I am disinclined to alter what was auto-downloaded from my financial institution.) It seems to me that a workable solution might be to report RIC as the country for all of the foreign income (on both 1099-DIVs). I believe that I might be able to swing that in TT as I saw both current 1099-DIVs listed when I went after my first country, and TT fails me when I circle back for a second country. Any idea why the IRS wants to know the specific countries?

I have a similar situation that I thought I fixed by putting in a 1099-R for both my husband and me for excess ROTH contributions made in 2025 but withdrawn (with earnings) before the tax deadline. The problem is that we had tax withheld from the earnings and this is showing up on the 1099-R for 2025 (which I manually entered in boxes 4 and 14) but if I am understanding correctly this withholding applies to next year's taxes. Should I zero the withholding out manually and then when the form comes next year add it to my 2026 taxes? It made my taxes get rejected because the Tax Withheld amount is different from what appears on my 1040. Turbo Tax is correctly not adding it to Tax Withheld for 2025 but it is on the 2025 1099-R that I created. Thanks!