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The trip qualifies as a business expense because it was the reason for the trip and rental business was conducted while you were there. This assumes most of your time was spent taking care of rental business.   The standard mileage rate for 2025 is $0.70 per mile (or $0.725 in 2026) for operating costs. Separately, you can deduct business-related parking fees and tolls. Loan interest is deductible based on the percentage of business use.   My advice is to add the second vehicle for the trip alone, you can always remove it by converting it to personal use next year if it isn't used again. The standard mileage rate carries a depreciation component and the recovery will be required if you sell or trade the vehicle used for this trip later on. Keep track of this deduction for future tax returns. IRS Publication 463 - Travel Expense Chart - Also see Chart 5-1. IRS Publication 527 - Page 5 All other allowable expenses for the trip should be entered on the Travel Expenses line in your rental. Entertainment would not be an allowable expense for this trip. Some meals will be allowed as indicated in the publication.   Thank you for placing your confidence with TurboTax.    @mobster27

The license code is used when installing the software on a computer.   Go to this TurboTax website to download the 2025 TurboTax desktop edition you purchased - https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/cd-download/install-turbotax/

Whether a K-1 is generated out of the trust 1041 will depend on the type of trust and activity for the year (such as distributions to beneficiaries), you'll have to email/call the trust accountant about your specifics. If you are set to receive a K-1 from the trust, they will send it to you, and you would need to report it.    You don't have to worry about Form 1041, that is reported at the trust level and the K-1 is sent out of that level down to you (and your wife) at the recipient/beneficiary level for tax reporting (if it is a K-1 year).    These are the instructions for selecting an amended return in TurboTax Online or TurboTax Desktop, but I recommend waiting until you know for sure what the trust is going to send to you this year from its tax reporting. 

How to get started with the Desktop program, install and activate it https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/product-delivery/download-software-turbotax-com/L7u9oLEkq_US_en_US?uid=luqgvzrd

As you are entering the information needed to depreciate the carpet, first select 'Rental Real Estate Property' on the page titled Describe This Asset.     Then, on the page titled, Tell Us A Little More About Your Rental Asset, select Appliances, Carpet, Furniture.   Finally, continue to enter the details about the carpet that was installed such as the price and the date.  Then, select the options available to you for Section 179 or Special Depreciation Allowance.  If you choose to just depreciate the property, then the class life of 5 years will be automatically selected.    

@user17729040969 When did you file the tax return?  E-file or mailed?  It normally takes about a month after the IRS receives the payment plan request before they respond back my mailing you the procedure for when and what to pay each montn.

In desktop TurboTax Premier you cannot manually create a Personal Worksheet for a dependent. The program only generates Personal Wks for: the taxpayer the spouse So the instruction to “create a new Personal Worksheet for the dependent” simply is not possible in the software.

@pk,   Thanks for your response. Before I start trying to change my TurboTax forms, I’d like to address your last point.   Yes, my only source of foreign income was from the two stocks, yielding a total dividend of $242 and foreign tax of $112.   Form 116, line 35, has the addendum “DO NOT FILE FORM. (SEE HELP)” that was “typed in” by TurboTax. TurboTax did perform calculations on Form 1116 and shows $56 on both lines 24 and 27.   I’m not quite sure what you mean by “the safe harbor path.”   Are you referring to this (from https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-tax-credit-how-to-figure-the-credit)   == Exemption from the Foreign Tax Credit limit You will not be subject to the foreign tax credit limit and will be able to claim the foreign tax credit without using Form 1116 if the following requirements are met.   1. Your only foreign source gross income for the tax year is passive income, as defined in Publication 514 under Separate Limit Income. 2. Your qualified foreign taxes for the tax year are not more than $300 ($600 if filing a joint return). 3. All of your gross foreign income and the foreign taxes are reported to you on a payee statement (such as a Form 1099-DIV or 1099-INT). 4. You elect this procedure for the tax year. ==   I believe that I do indeed qualify for the above “Exemption from the Foreign Tax Credit limit.” Is this what you refer to as “the safe harbor path?”   The only thing I can think of is that I incorrectly answered a question from TurboTax when I started the Foreign Tax Credit EasyStep section which caused TurboTax to use Form 1116.