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How do I enter the death of my wife to step up the basis of depreciated property in a joint state CA. The program (turbotax 2025) keeps including the depreciation and I can't find a way to erace or delete it.

You can include them as start up costs. Once you create your business profile in TurboTax and select that you started your business in 2025, you will be able to go to the Business Expense section and select Start Up Costs. These are things like the LLC cost,  research, accounting fees and other expenses that you incurred to "get the doors open"   If you have total start up costs that are less than $50,000, then you can deduct up to $5,000 in the first year for organizational costs (legal fees such as the LLC costs) and another $5,000 for qualifying startup costs including training employees, marketing, market research.  The remaining amount would be amortized over 15 years. Start-up Business Tax Tips  

I believe you are asking about 2026 taxes and moving forward. You did just learn, we are here year round and you can always come ask questions. For 2026: MFJ, both KS residents, one job in MO. MO taxes based on total income times MO percentage of income earned. There is nothing you can do about how the tax is calculated but understand it. Next, KS taxes your entire income and gives you a credit for the income being taxed in both KS and MO. This is your problem. MO tax rate is much lower than KS. This means you owe KS each year on the difference between the credit and KS tax. To fix this situation pay an extra 1 - 1.3%: Submit a Kansas Form K-4 to your HR department and ask them to withhold an Additional Amount for KS If HR won't do that, make estimated payments to KS throughout the year. You can make an estimated payment with each paycheck or whenever you want. Pay here Another option, is to have the KS spouse withhold more taxes at their job. The w4 can be filed with the box to withhold an additional state amount filled in For example: Your paycheck shows you earned $1200 gross, not take home, then  $1200 x 1% = $12 to pay KS.   I recommend that each quarter, you take a look at your total family income, interest, capital gains, all of it and see if you have enough withholding to avoid additional tax and possibly penalties. The KS tax rate varies from 5.2% - 5.58%. The higher limit is for MFJ above $46,000, which I am guessing would be your tax rate. You want to avoid Penalty and Interest

Oh - VERY helpful. Thank you. I can preview Federal 1040, but there is no schedule A. It shows a total from Schedule A on line 12 e. And it is not the standard deduction amount but my itemized amount.  But no Schedule A is included in this preview.

The amendment form 1040X will only be available in TurboTax after 2/25/2026.   If you are expecting a refund, we recommend that you wait to amend until after the IRS has processed your original return and you have received your refund.   To amend your tax return, please read this TurboTax article.     

Is this the first time you are filing a return with the CRA? Do you have any locked forms from this list on your return? https://turbotax.community.intuit.ca/turbotax-support/en-ca/help-article/tax-return/turbotax-say-forms-locked-finalized/L9h4thZZJ_CA_en_CA   If not, then make sure to check your personal information, like your name & address. Make sure the information matches what the CRA has for you. If you are not sure what they have on file for you, you can confirm it with them. Also make sure that you have not said yes to the question, "Is this your first tax return being filed with the CRA?" under "Mandatory questions." If you have a NAC (Netfile access code), we recommend removing it and giving it a try because it is not a required field.   Let us know how it goes.   Thank you for choosing TurboTax.

No, you do not need to input the control number on your W-2. If you get errors when attempting to e-file with an empty box D, just enter any number in this format: 5 digits, space, 5 digits (for example 12345 67890). The IRS doesn't care what's in box D.   A Control Number (box D) is used by many payroll departments to uniquely identify a W-2 in their system. If your W-2 doesn't have one, it's no big deal.   Please read this TurboTax Help topic for more information.

I want to DOWNGRADE from 2025 TT Premier PC Download (that I already paid $111.30 for) to 2025 TT Deluxe Download so that I can claim the Foreign Tax Credit WITHOUT using Form 1116.  Since 2025 Premier DOES NOT SUPPORT doing this (2024 DID!!)  HOW can I do this? Also will everything I entered over the last 2 days transfer over to Deluxe?