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Okay thank you so much. I was worried the 8339 form wouldn’t apply to him since our children aren’t in court system, nor does dad pay child support. I don’t understand why it’s so hard for him to claim them. My friend switches years w her kids father every year and said they never had to issue he has had. 

You can report your child's interest income in TurboTax using the steps listed below. However, the IRS 2025 guidelines, state a child must have more than $1,350 in unearned income (interest/dividends) to meet the threshold for filing a tax return or for parents to report it on their own return. So you are not required to report such income.   If the child's income is $15,750 or more, it must be on the child's own tax return. It cannot be included on the parents' tax return   You can enter your child's income on your tax return if the child was under age 19 (or 24 for students) at the end of 2025 and their income was solely from interest/dividends (must be under $13,500), and no estimated tax payments were made in your child's name for 2025.   To report a child's income on your tax return you  would:   Click on Search in the top right of your TurboTax screen Type child's income in the search box Click on the link Jump to child's income Your screen will say Any Child's Income? Answer Yes  The next screen will ask Is your child required to file a return for 2025? If you say No, TurboTax will not prompt you to add the income. If you answer Yes, TurboTax will ask you a series of follow-up questions to determine if it needs to be reported   Click here for Do I need to report my child's 1099-INT on my return? Please return to Community if you have any additional information or questions and we would be happy to help.

If you are entering this as a rental on schedule E then you think of it as a business.  Figure out what percentage of the home she is renting.  That's the first step.  @VanessaA gave you several options but let's do the easiest for this example and take is as a percentage.   You are renting 25% of the house to your mother.  The income is $1300 a month.  The expenses are 25% of all of the utility bills you have paid on the house for the year, 25% of the property taxes and 25% of the mortgage interest.  If you have anything else that you spent money on at the house for the year you can take 25% of it or you can take 100% of it if it was done directly for your mother in order for her to live there.   When you enter this into TurboTax you can enter the percentage of the house that you are renting and then just the total for each of those bills and TurboTax will figure the percentages for you.

If you have bought TurboTax Online, please go to turbotax.ca/activate to use your code before you start your returns. You can see this TurboTax FAQ for step-by-step instructions: In TurboTax Online, how do I use a prepayment code?    Please keep in mind that the code can only be used once per account. Using the code again will result in an error message. It can only be linked to one account. Additionally, TurboTax Online and TurboTax Desktop codes are not interchangeable.    Thank you for choosing TurboTax.

If you were given a gift by a friend or family member, this is not taxable and doesn't need to be entered on your tax return.    If you were given money as part of a scholarship, then they should provide you with a T4A.  

I had the same experience as you. I received the letter this past weekend and now they want more information sent to them. This is getting to be a long and frustrating process. I’m going to work on it tonight to see if I can get the paperwork that they want resubmitted. This should have all been figured out way before tax season. I don’t even know if I should blame the IRS or turboTax