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Michigan allows a deduction for auto insurance coverage that includes medical services related to a car accident. The coverage is called personal injury protection (PIP). See this Michigan webpage for more information.   If you can't tell from your auto insurance statement how much is the PIP portion, contact your agent.   The portion of your auto insurance that is designated as medical is a separate deduction on the Michigan return. To deduct the medical portion of your Michigan auto insurance premium, please follow the instructions below:   Open your return. Click on State on the left-hand side. Click Continue next to your Michigan return. On the page Your 2025 Michigan taxes are ready for us to check, click Start or Edit next to Credits and taxes. Click Start or Revisit next to Homestead Property Tax Credit on the page Take a look at Michigan credits and taxes. Answer yes to the question Do you want to review your total household resources? Answer yes to the question Do you meet the qualifications? on the page Location of Property. Continue past the page Any of These Sources of Household Resources? On the page Medical Insurance or HMO Premiums Reduce Household Resources, enter the medical portion of your auto insurance premiums.  Continue through your return.  @jjh 

@NJ_Devils - In the underpayment penalty notice, was there any fine or was it only interest? Reason I ask is I paid estimated payments to NJ late (in the 4th quarter). So I do have an underpayment interest I need to pay. I am thinking of letting NJ compute the interest and bill me. Reason being I already paid for TT and the NJ-2210 calculation in TT is wrong. My only concern is that NJ will charge an additional penalty for not submitting NJ-2210 with the return.

There appears to be multiple bugs in the TurboTax (TT) code in relation to the estimated taxes payable for 2026.  As you have discovered, it assumes that the same withholding in 2025 will be applied in 2026.  In my case, it was worse as my W-2 income fell to zero (retired in 2025) and the bug resulted in TT informing me that I have no Estimated Federal Tax to pay in 2026 although I expect to continue to have other sources of income which would be taxable.  I had to go into the worksheet to ENTER $0 as the withholding for 2026 - the field being blank was not enough even though TT conventionally treats other empty value field to be $0.  That helped and the app generated an estimated tax number and the 4 estimated tax forms.  HOWEVER, the estimated tax for 2026 was still too low to be believed - it came up to be less than the estimated State and City taxes - an impossibility as the Federal tax rates are higher on the same incomes and certain incomes such as SSI are not taxed at the State level.  On further analysis, it appears that TT did not accurately bring in the appropriate value into the line "Total of your other taxable income and losses" in the "Other Income" section of their Estimated Tax and Form W-4 Worksheet.  From what I could deduce (based on the number TT used for the 2025 column), it brought in my self-employment income INSTEAD OF the total of my taxable interests, ordinary dividends and the taxable portion of my social security income. I have yet to go back into the app or worksheet to figure out how to resolve for the understated "other income".   Not sure if TT will allow me to over-ride any of the mis-stated number.   I'll report later should I have figured out this bug.   As underpayment of Estimated Taxes WILL result in a penalty, TT should fix this ASAP or be responsible for this flaw in their coding. p.s. I'm using the TT Deluxe desktop version

You can try these troubleshooting steps to update your software, and then return to the self-employment income and expense (< direct link) menu:   First, begin logging out of the TurboTax platform you're using, Online or Desktop. If you are using TurboTax Online Check ‌your browser's settings. (Clear your Cache and Cookies) Here are the official instructions for the most popular browsers: Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Microsoft Edge  Or, Try using a different web browser to login and complete your entries.  If you are using TurboTax Desktop Make sure the software is updated.  If you haven't rebooted your computer, please do. Check your firewall and antivirus settings. Make sure they aren't blocking any feature of the software.  ** If you are using the phone/tablet app, try changing to laptop/computer if possible. If you do not have access to a computer, switch to a web browser within your phone or tablet, and sign in from there.  **You might also want to uninstall and reinstall your desktop product (this has worked for some users). Make sure that you save the file and do a back up of your information (you do not want to lose any information). See: How do I back up my tax file in the TurboTax Desktop software?

It sounds like you may be getting an error due to rounding on your 1099-Q.  My suggestion is that you round the amounts yourself before entering them.  When you do this, is Box 1 still the sum of Box 2 and 3?  If not, adjust Box 3 by $1 to make the math work.  This will not change your income tax liability.

You can enter this as a Capital Sale without a 1099-B:   From the Federal section, under Wages & Income, Select Stocks, Cryptocurrency, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Other (1099-B, 1099-DA) under Investments and Savings On the Let’s finish pulling in your investment income page, click on Add investments. On the Save time and connect your financial accounts click on Enter a different way On the How do you want to add your docs? click on Type it in myself On the OK, let's start with one investment type, click on Other and Continue On the Tell us more about this sale, type Expenses On the Now, enter one sale for Expenses, complete the information: use the date you received the original stock (reported in 2024) as Purchase Date date you received expenses or 12/31/2025 as Date of Sale enter expense amount (as a negative number) as Proceeds  enter zero for Cost or other basis  

If you need to see your 2014 tax year return, you will need to refer to a personal pdf or paper copy. TurboTax only stores tax files for the past 7 years. Therefore, you would have needed to save any returns from 2014 locally to your own computer or storage devices.   If you no longer have a copy, you may need to request a transcript of your 2014 tax return by visiting this IRS website link - Get your tax records and transcripts.

Without seeing your tax return, I can tell you that in general, taxable income is all the income you receive during the tax year (unless it’s specifically exempt from tax by law) minus any tax deductions you’re eligible to claim. Deductions include either the Standard Deduction or itemized deductions.   You may find the following article helpful: Taxable Income: What is It, How to Reduce It, and More