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I use turbo tax premium for a number of years now. While preparing taxes for 2025, I am facing some issues. Please kindly help. My situation is as follows. - I currently have two rental homes. - Home1 had been producing rent since 2023. However in 2023, there was a loss of $5,167 and it was recorded in Sch E and form 8582 in the tax return of 2023. TTax disallowd this amount in 2023 in Part VII of form 8582. - Home2 was bought in Dec 2024, made some capital purchases like appliances and backyard, claimed it in 2024 return. Though listed for rent, it did not produce rent in 2024. But it has some loss in 2024 due to expenses and capital purchases etc. - In the tax return for year 2024, I see that Sch E considered the loss of $5,167 on home1 for year 2023 and calculated net income after deducting the loss from the rental income (generated from home1 only.) - But in 2025 I was able to rent home2 also though just for couple of months, but ended in eviction, litigation, damages to home. Effectively loss on home2 again. - But in Sch E worksheet for home1, line G shows 'Schedule E suspended loss' under QBI column of -$5,167. This exact number appears to belong to home1 and year 2023, which seem to have been netted in 2024 return as I noted above. And smart check is catching this and complaining that this needs to be 0. It allows me to make it 0. Based on this, please clarify the following: a) How and why did -$5,167 still somehow came into 2025 return though in year 2024 it seem to have been deducted out of rental income? I always import previous year's return when I start that of current year. - Did I goof something OR - Did TTax missed something or importing something incorrectly? - Is it OK to zero it out in 2025 return? b) At two places in turbo tax asks me about QBI stuff. - One is about QBI safe harbor and the conditions listed there do not qualify me. So I chose 'No, I don't or can't (common respone)' - Second place is about 'Is this qualified business income', and there the explanation in TTax was 'In general, if rental or royalty is based in the US, and carried on with regularity, continuity. and profit motive, then income from this activity is considered QBI'. I read this to be applicatble to me and I chose 'yes' for home1 in 2023, 2024 and for home2 in 2024. And year 2024 return shows a QBI deduction of 1,622 on line 13 of 1040. - I was about to say yes to 'Is this qualified business income' for both homes in 2025 too. Is this correct or should I be saying NO here? If I need to say NO, I could do so in 2025, but I cant do so for 2023, 2024 because they are already filed! I am worried if I have to amened both 2023 and 2024. So I am supposed to say NO, I will do so in 2025 return that I am yet to file but keep quiet and pray for IRS grace to miss me for any 2023 and 2024 mistakes about saying YES to QBI! Please kindly help.

I'd called T.Tax  about a week ago. The gentleman I spoke to said that the conformity changes had been completed in T.Tax. When I went to do my Idaho taxes today, the 2nd screen that came up "New Idaho Tax Law Changes" seems to indicate that is not so.  Any idea as to when they will be? Failing that, expect I can go in and manually overwrite the amounts shown in T. Tax that don't reflect the changes following the guidelines provided by the Idaho State Tax Commission for those who file manually using pen and paper to achieve the correct result? Different question- I do the taxes, so Intuit has my name, e-mail address, password and phone # to text code to.   What happens if I die, and my wife needs to take over. How does she access prior years tax returns & establish her credentials?