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Yes, as a DoorDash driver, you are an independent contractor and must file a Schedule C with your Form 1040.  You can deduct miles driven for your business. The standard mileage rate for 2025 is 70 cents per mile.    You must track your miles to properly report this. You would track your miles from the first restaurant (or food pick-up spot) to the customer, and between deliveries.  You can not claim miles from your home to your starting place or from your last delivery home.  There are apps like Stride or TripLog that you can use to track your miles.   You will be asked choose either the Standard Mileage Rate or the Actual Expense Method (gas, oil, maintenance), but you cannot claim both. TurboTax will help guide you through these entries.   In addition to your mileage, you can deduct things like tolls, parking fees and a portion of your phone bill.   Click here for Business Use of Vehicles   Click here for Where do I enter my self-employment business expenses, like home office, vehicle mileage, and supplies?   Click here for Maximizing Tax Deductions for the Business Use of Your Car Please return to Community if you have any additional information or questions and we would be happy to help.

thank you.  I  checked schedule I, part II and found an educator expense matched the mystery amount.  It is a mystery what this has to do with Form 1116 for Foreign Tax Credit or why Turbo Tax can't pull the explanation along with the number.

When entering multiple Box 12 entries with code D in TurboTax, if one is specified as for 2024 and the other just D, TurboTax may consider them duplicates because it only recognizes the base code D. TurboTax allows up to four Box 12 entries (12a to 12d), each with a different code. To avoid the duplicate error, enter each amount on separate Box 12 lines using the + Add another box 12 item button.    If TurboTax still treats them as duplicates because of the code being the same, you may combine the amounts or clarify with your employer which entry to report. Regarding Code DD, it represents employer-sponsored health coverage total cost. This code is informational and does not affect your taxable income. You should enter Code DD and its amount exactly as shown on your W-2.   To enter multiple Box 12 entries with code D and DD in TurboTax online, follow these steps: 1. Go to the Wages & Income section and select Add a W-2. 2. Enter employer details and proceed to the Box 12 section. 3. For the first code D, select D from the dropdown and enter the amount exactly as shown. 4. Click + Add another box 12 item to enter the second Code D if TurboTax allows it; if not, combine amounts or check with your employer. 5. Enter Code DD and its amount separately on another line. Remember: Box 12 entries must exactly match the codes on your W-2, and TurboTax limits one entry per code, so identical codes for different years or variations may not be accepted separately.  

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/efile-status-lookup/    Sometimes people get confused by the “summary” given by TurboTax and use the wrong amount for the federal refund.  Make sure you are only using the federal refund amount, and not an amount that combined your federal and state refunds.     Your federal refund amount is on line 35a of your Form 1040

if you work thru the Annualized Income (AI) method for Form 2210 you basically have to calculate a mini tax return for each quarter, so to calculate your quarterly AGI for example you have to replicate the income on your 1040 Lines 1-10 apportioning it by quarter, same with the capital gains and qualified dividends to get the right tax calcs.  I am not sure all the nuances of doing this for self-employment situation and how to handle QBI and deductions thru the annualization process.   It's generally a lot of work to go through this for 3 quarters (uneven - 3/31, 5/31, 8/31; and 12/31 is your full return) it's like doing 3 extra tax returns, so you may have to decide whether it's worthwhile to save $100 or so penalty.  You may not even eliminate it if the annualization and ES payments don't line up as intended.  One thing you can do is a mock up with rough quarterly estimates to see if it helps with the penalty, then refine it with more accurate numbers.   When you go through those questions you'll be asked at the end if you want to adopt the AI method.  This language at the end about not filing 2210... by default, Form 2210 is not filed in your return unless you are selecting one of the exceptions in Part 2 like the AI method.  IRS assesses your penalty independently, they know your ES payments and will do the default safe harbor and penalty calc on Form 2210 Part 1 the same way Turbotax does assuming no other tax adjustments for some reason.   To avoid this going forward, if your total income is steady or increasing from year-to-year you could pay fixed quarterly ES payments based on prior year tax then it won't matter about the timing of your income.  But with this method it could be an overpayment especially if your prior year AGI is > 150k for single filer then you need to pay ES based on 110% of prior year tax, instead of 90% of current year tax.  Turbotax by default will generate ES vouchers for 2026 based on 2025 tax, but you can work through other income estimates under Other Tax Situations / Form W4 and Estimated Taxes.   Check also the instructions for Form 22110 which may answer some of these questions how to go about the annualization.

Form 4562 also reports depreciation for certain assets placed into service in tax years before the current year (basically, any assets other than vehicles). If this is the only value on Form 4562, you can trace the amount to the Schedule E Worksheet Line 18a.    It's possible that one property had prior year assets with depreciation and the other did not. You might compare these worksheets from your prior year return.

If you are self-employed, you will need a Schedule C.  You can use TurboTax Online Premium or  TurboTax Desktop, Home & Business. If you have an incorporated business, you will need TurboTax Business.