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Do you have a question for the user forum?    Or are you trying to contact your "Live" expert?   If you are trying to contact a "Live" expert: https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/product-setup/connect-tax-expert-turbotax-live/L73wOZD5D_US_en_US?uid=m8zw1pbb  

If your TurboTax license code is not working make sure you are using the desktop version (not an online account), enter the code without dashes, and check for any typos.    Other things you can try: Change your Windows display settings to 100% or 125%.  Temporarily disable your VPN  Disable your firewall settings that may block your TurboTax activation.   Uninstall and reinstall the application.  If these don't work, contact TurboTax Support  

How to find your 1095-A online Log in to your account. Under "Your Existing Applications," select your 2025 application — not your 2026 application. Select “Tax Forms." Download all 1095-As. Get screen-by-screen directions, with pictures (PDF, 504 KB).     To enter your 1095A go to Federal>Deductions and Credits> Medical>Affordable Care Act (Form 1095A)  

If the Form 1099-K was issued in your TIN, you should report the amount of the form on your return.   You have to be 18 years of age to sell on eBay, as the platform requires users to enter into a legally binding contract. See eBay's policy here.    If your online auction sales (link is to IRS tips for direct sellers) involve used items and are the equivalent of an occasional garage or yard sale, you generally don't have to report income from those sales, especially if you are selling the items for less than you paid for them. However, if you received a Form 1099-K from eBay, you should account for the dollar amount of sales on your return and separately report the purchase price of the items.   How the sales are treated for tax purposes depends on whether you realized a gain from the sales. If you sold items such as art or collectibles at a profit, report them as Investment Income, where you can enter the date and price originally purchased, and the date of sale and sales price. If you have a business selling items on eBay, you can report the sales on Schedule C.    Please see this TurboTax tips article and this one for more information from TurboTax for eBay sellers.  

Thank you for the response.  There seems to be a dropdown menu difference between TurboTax versions. I have Deluxe this year and it doesn’t show Baltimore City as an option. I’ve used Premiere in past years and it was listed in the dropdown menu. 

See if you have a backup copy of your file in Documents > TurboTax (may have a Tilde~ sign).  Make sure you don't save your TurboTax data files in a cloud environment, or they may become corrupted when you try to open them again.   @tkenn 

There is nothing to enter about that on a federal tax return, so you must be asking about something that could go on your state tax return.  Tell us what state you are in and someone may know where you need to enter it.

Thank you ReneV4. This is very helpful, but I don't do online turbotax, but/instead of desktop version. It would be great if you could walk the menu/steps for the desktop version for this. Again thank you very much.

  You have to access your own account and/or  print it for yourself using exactly the same account and user ID that you used when you prepared the return.    https://myturbotax.intuit.com/   Start a 2025 return online and enter some personal information  so that the menu on the left opens up and lets you access your past year returns.   https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/prior-year-return/help/how-do-i-access-my-prior-year-return/01/27010     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m5y4ch1y   Many people have multiple TT accounts and forget how to access them.  Log out of the account you are in now.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/many-intuit-accounts-turbotax/L9aVfKS1Z_US_en_US?uid=ll5g6zcx Account Recovery   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/many-intuit-accounts-turbotax/L9aVfKS1Z_US_en_US?uid=ll5g6zcx   Or did you use the desktop version of TurboTax?  If so, the files are on your own hard drive or any backup device you used like a flash drive.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-return/find-last-year-tax-data-file-tax-file-computer/L0XJvPaJr_US_en_US   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/data-systems/find-tax-data-file-mac/L4VNGm33S_US_en_US?uid=m6guhab0   You can get a free transcript from the IRS or for a fee of $30, an actual copy of your tax return. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4506.pdf       SAVE YOUR TAX RETURNS ! EVERY year before mid-October you should save a copy of your tax return as a pdf and print a copy of it for your records.  That way you will not be searching online frantically when you need it for a lender, FAFSA forms, your next tax return, etc.    https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m6guj526   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-2021-turbotax-online-return-pdf/L8dHfRkpT_US_en_US?uid=m78eb8pc In order to transfer a past year return to the new return you need the tax file   https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/save-turbotax-online-return-tax-data-file/L4xwOG3LF_US_en_US?uid=m6guk3xl   NOTE:  TurboTax and the IRS save returns for seven years.  Returns older than seven years are purged.

Make sure you have entered your child as a dependent in My Info, and that you have entered the child's Social Security number.    Careful— do not say that your child’s SSN is not valid for employment.  If your child was born in 2025 make sure you said he lived with you the whole year.  There is an oddly worded question that asks if the child paid over half their own support.  Say NO to that question.   If your dependent was a full-time college student, make sure you were careful on the MY INFO screen for “Uncommon situations” and that you indicated there that they were a student.

@taxdrama  said "I am going to fill my parents' info in the Child's Income section."   Let us know how that  works out  for you.   It now appears, to me,  that I was partially wrong, earlier.  That section is used by either  the parents of such a student or the student himself.  I just tried it on my desktop Deluxe, both ways. TurboTax (TT) recognizes which type taxpayer you are, from your personal info, and directs you to correct interview.    I think you still do not  report this income in the  "Less Common Income/ Child's Income (Under Age 24)" section of TurboTax.  In that section, you report the information about your parents so that TT can calculate the tax on form 8615.  You still have to enter the income in some other section. This section is also used by some parents  (not in your case) to report a child's unearned income on the parents return (form 8814 is used instead of 8615).