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Yes, this is the expected behavior.   In order to make contributions to a Health Savings Account, you need to have High Deductible Health Plan Coverage.  TurboTax was considering these contributions to be taxable until you checked that you High Deductible Health Plan.  I used a mock return to confirm that the refund did increase when I checked that the taxpayer had an HDHP.  

Si vous avez fait une déclaration conjointe, il faut vous assurer que dans la section Profil les deux doivent indiquer qu'ils veulent partager les revenus de pension.   TurboImpôt en ligne:       Merci de choisir TurboImpôt

My Capital Gain Rate is 15%.  Form 1116 Line 3d Gross foreign source Income is $40,635 and Line 1a is $16,425, so my adjustment factor is .4042.  Why isn’t .4054?   Why is there any adjustment at all if my foreign income is taxed at the higher rate of 15% and my other income is taxed at the lower rate of 12%?

Here are a couple of possibilities that may have caused this.   If you live in a community property state (AZ, CA, ID, LA, NV, NM, TX, WA, or WI) and filed as Married Filing Separately, TurboTax has a "Community Property" interview.   In these states, income and withholding are often split 50/50 between spouses, regardless of whose name is on the W-2. If you entered your spouse's withholding to "take" your half, or if you adjusted your own withholding up to match a 50/50 split, TurboTax puts that extra amount on Line 25c and labels it a "Positive Adjustment" on the background worksheet.  The IRS often flags this because they see a withholding amount that doesn't match any W-2 or 1099 attached to your Social Security number. The second possibility is if you entered information directly into the Tax Payments Worksheet in Forms Mode to add a missing payment or include a tax credit without its own field, it will appear as an "Adjustment. TurboTax uses this line to capture any withholding that isn’t automatically pulled from a W-2 or 1099..

This issue is still going on. I am on my fifth call to customer support, twice being hung up on before ever starting. They have no clue what to do they keep insisting its my card company when its already pre authorized through my credit card company. Spoke to one representative who stated that billing could assist me, no one would even let me speak to billing.   

I am not asking about student loan interest. I need to know if I paid off my childs student loan fully, do I have to file a tax form (I was told) so it counts towards the lifetime gift limit to the child.

Can you please let us know what forms you were trying to import (INT, DIV, etc.)? If you can list the forms per spouse, that would be great!  Once you move from the external import page to TurboTax Desktop, do you see any pop-ups? Would it be possible to share a screenshot (please make sure there is no PII on it)?  When importing from Marcus, are you checking/unchecking any transactions?  How are you importing the forms? Through File Menu >> Import, or within the Interview experience: Income >> INT, DIV, etc.?   @damckinleysr 

You can't deduct clothing that is used for everyday wear.  You can only deduct clothing that is expressly for work purposes.  It's why uniforms are easy to figure out and work clothes are tough.     If the place where you do your training has clothing requirements that mean that they can't be worn outside of work then they are deductible.  But if you can wear them walking down the street they're almost certainly not.   Here's a good article on what work clothes are deductible.

MelindaS1 is assuming that your LLC has more than one member and is treated as a partnership for income tax purposes. That would require filing a separate Form 1065 partnership tax return for the LLC. But you didn't say that it's a multi-member LLC. If, on the other hand, it's a single-member LLC, meaning that you are the only member, the LLC is disregarded for income tax purposes. You report it as business income or self-employment income on your joint personal Form 1040 tax return. The business income and expenses will be reported on Schedule C included in your tax return. You need a Form 1099-R from the 401(K). If you didn't get one, contact the administrator of the 401(k) plan and ask for it. The 1099-R will show the amount that you took out and the amount of tax that was withheld. The 1099-R will also have other information. You enter the information from the 1099-R into TurboTax. You cannot file your tax return without the 1099-R. You can't just enter amounts from your own records.  

One more question. We entered all this information for windfalls for years 2021-2024 however there is another $630 listed as paid in 2025 but lists "for other tax years". How do I enter this in Turbo Tax if I do not have a specific year?   Thanks, Carolyn