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It depends on whether you want to enter your estimated tax payments for 2025, or whether you want to create estimated forms for 2026. Both sets of instructions are below. If you made estimated tax payments on your income during the 2025 tax year, then you can enter your payments using the information below. Where do I enter my estimated tax payments? The details include estimated taxes which is used for self employed individuals or other income where no withholding is taking place. Take a look at that section of your return and you can see if you should consider estimated payments.    As you step through the screens answer any questions and you can choose not to print the vouchers if you don't need or want them. Follow the steps in the link below. How do I print estimated tax vouchers? - Steps printed below for convenience. Open or continue your return. Navigate to the 1040-ES section: TurboTax Online/Mobile: Go to the 1040-ES screen under Other Tax Situations. TurboTax Desktop: Search for 1040-es and select the Jump to link or, Go to Federal Taxes. Go to Other Tax Situations. Under Other Tax Forms, select Start or Update next to Form W-4 and estimated taxes @smiddle 

To enter, edit or delete estimated taxes paid (Federal, State, Local) - Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home and Business) Click on Deductions and Credits Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown) Scroll down to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid On Estimated Tax Payments, click on the start or update button   On Federal estimated taxes for 2025 (Form 1040-ES), click the start button   Federal estimated taxes paid are entered on Form 1040 Line 26

If you are using TurboTax Online, go to Tax Tools in the left menu, then Tools. In the pop-up window, select Delete a Form and choose the form you need to delete.   In TurboTax Desktop, go to Forms Mode (click on the button that shows Step by Step) and then choose the form you need to delete from the list on the left.   Once the unneeded form is removed, you should be able to continue with filing.   @billOst   

To access your current or prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the User ID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/ Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and on the section Your tax returns & documents.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)   If you used the desktop CD/Download editions installed on your computer, the only copy of your tax data file and any PDF's will be on the computer where the return was created.  TurboTax does not store online any returns completed using the desktop editions.   Go to this IRS website for free transcripts of a federal tax return - https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript   For a fee of $30 you can get a complete federal tax return from the IRS by completing Form 4506 - http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf

Seek a refund for the Home and Business----although you might need it for your personal tax return.   The TurboTax Business software cannot prepare a personal tax return.   To request a refund for a TT product https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/intuit-refunds/request-refund-turbotax-product/L834M6uyW_US_en_US?uid=m6meybc2   To purchase TurboTax Business   --- must use on Windows.   TURBOTAX BUSINESS  DO IT YOURSELF   https://turbotax.intuit.com/small-business-taxes/cd-download/  

See this for requesting a refund - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/intuit-refunds/request-refund-turbotax-product/L834M6uyW_US_en_US   TurboTax Business Edition - https://turbotax.intuit.com/small-business-taxes/cd-download/   Note - The Business Edition cannot be used for a personal tax return, Form 1040

I couldn't read or follow all that without any breaks.  But with the Desktop program you get 1 free state PROGRAM download to prepare all state returns in that specific state.  Then each state return including the first one is $20 or 25 to efile.     If you needed to file a state return for a different state  you have to buy the second state Program for $40.   Then again,  each state return is $20/25 to efile (including the first one).  

First, thank you for your response.    Second, let me ask if I have this correctly now:     So on the 2025 return I'm completing now,  I list the prorated county taxes for the 1-2025 to 8-2025 period I lived in the home that was paid to the buyer of my former home.    Then on the 2026 return I list the full property taxes I actually paid in 2026 i.e., the arrears for 2025.    Because taxes are done in arrears in this Ohio county, what about the taxes I had already paid in 2025 to cover the 2024 arrears? are those reported on the forms I'm completing now?    Thank you. 

If you're entering your 3,000 capital loss carryover from tax year 2024, to your current year tax return, follow these FAQ instructions:  If you transferred last year's TurboTax return over, you don't have to do a thing—we've already entered it for you.   Otherwise, follow these instructions:   Navigate to the capital loss carryover section: TurboTax Online/Mobile: Go to the capital loss carryover (<click here) screen under Wages & Income TurboTax Desktop: Search for capital loss carryover, and then select the Jump to link, or Go to Federal Taxes. Go to Wages & Income. If asked, How do you want to enter your income?, select I'll choose what I work on. Under Investment Income, select Start or Update next to Capital Loss Carryover. Select Yes on the screen Did you have investment losses you couldn't claim last year? Enter the info about your capital loss on the following screens. If you're worried about your carryover from this years' taxes to the 2026 tax return, don't worry; TurboTax will roll that amount over automatically when you open the software next year. 

TurboTax is designed to flag what seem like duplicate entries so that you do not report double income.   If the Payer is the same, but the funds are different, you can add an identifier for each Form 1099-R in the Payer field. For example, you can add the last four digits of the account number after the Payer's name.   For any Form 1099-Rs that have identical distribution amounts (may not apply to you), you may consider slightly altering the amounts if they are the same. For example, by changing a distribution amount from 5,000 to 5000.01, that typically resolves the duplicate Form 1099-R alerts.

It's still not working.  As I've mentioned previously, there is an interview question for condo or coop (corresponding to line 32b of Form 5695), but the interview question for line 32a (joint occupants; my situation) is missing.  Recent updates have not fixed this for the online version.