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If the IRS approves your payment plan (installment agreement), fees will be charged to cover the cost of providing the payment plan (installment agreement).   It depends if you are doing a long-term or short-term plan.   You can find out more details here.            

TT desk top i am using is the worst piece of **bleep**.  Not sure in day and age, why is this company in business.  No support and no way to find what is changed in the latest version.   If you ask a question on help, the response is totally irrelevant.  No matter what you ask, it gives set number of responses.   Even if you ask on Forum questions regarding 2025, they fill the screen with irrelevant topics from software from 2019!!  Even IRS does not keep record for more then 5 years!   Shifting to another software.  At least will not increase my blood pressure!!   By the way, there was an update today (2/27/2026).  If someone can find release notes as to what was changed, i would really appreciate.  I cannot count on customer service  from Intuit.  

this is eye opening - didn't realize all these years I could have opened a solo 401K and contributed more. I tried this scenario in turbotax - since I also had a W2 I thought it would subtract my W2 contribution from the 23500 limit as employee - but it is putting in the full 23500 limit in the Keogh/simple worksheet. everywhere else I read, it says the full employee contribution limit is 23500 from all 401K

appreciate the response but your analysis is incorrect. I had to force the itemized deduction to get the increased refund from Maine. In TurboTax it said that th standard and the itemized deduction had the same result. But this is only true for federal tax!!  That’s the point I’m making.  It should include state taxes or clearly indicate it only applied to federal taxes. 

It finally worked for me on desktop. Under the 1098-T section, Education summary, your Student, School,  Credit  should be listed. Click the edit icon by your student.  It's perhaps not the most intuitive. 

What worked for me for the 2025 TT: when the program asked me to file the state, I clicked on it like I was going to; then clicked on "Remove" at the top right across from the state ID.  Then  when it came time to e-file, I selected to file the state return later and it went through ok.  Still tacky. 

Thanks very much for the suggestion.  I can get the 2025 depreciation to become the correct  $6,413 for 2025 if I change the 'entered into service' date to 12/16/1998 (in line 3 of the Asset Summary Worksheet).  It had been December 1, 1998. This does not change the 'prior depreciation' total in the Asset Entry Worksheet's line 10 (still $167,272), but I may go with the entered into service date change, regardless.  It seems to produce the same intended result.  I am not sure how to directly change the 1998 depreciation allowance of $534 to $267. 

@user17718744485  Avez-vous reçu le message privé que je vous ai envoyé? J'ai été en mesure de procéder au remboursement de votre logiciel Premier. La preuve de remboursement est dans vos messages privés.   Merci de me confirmer, ici ou en privé, que vous avez bien reçu.

How do we declare more of the scholarship as taxable income in this situation in TT 2025 desktop version? Recap the amount from my original post:   Tuition expenses: $25,000 Room & Board: $12,000 Books & Computer: $2000 1098-T in his name: Box 1: $25,000 Box 5: $40,000 TT puts $15,000 scholarship as taxable income. 1099-Q in his name: Box 1: $39,000 TT uses this to cover $14000 and calculates the earning portion as taxable income.    Where in TT do I change the amount to allocate $4000 to claim AOTC? If I say scholarship is used to pay Room & Board/other expenses for $19,000. that gives $40,000 - $19,000 = $21,000 is used to cover Box 1 $25,000 Tuition? But leaving $4000 in tuition will still be covered by the 1099-Q withdraw. Am I just out of luck to use “loop hole” available to claim an education credit?    

Came back at it today after all the updates and it is still not handling one of my students correctly.  Oddly, for my return and another student, everything is working as it should.  I am on the Desktop Deluxe version.   

@lide  Oui, vous avez raison. C'est pour cette raison que, pour le moment, nous suggérons à la clientèle de s'assurer que les formulaires inutilisés soient effacés et fermés.   Nous comprenons que chaque situation est unique et que parfois, les étapes de dépannage peuvent ne pas fonctionner pour tous.   Merci de partager les différentes solutions avec les autres utilisateurs.