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I believe you mean you rented a house and collected a security deposit which you later returned to your tenant. If so it is not deductible, as it should not have been put into income in the first place. You just hold that money until you give it back to the tenant, with no entry on your tax return. If you did not return the income, you would put it in rental income.

@beudosie  Are you a US person ( citizen/GreenCard ) having a Foreign ( Zambia ) tax home ?   Is your business entity a local registered entity ?  If  both are true , then you  need to do two things : (a) File a Schedule-C  reporting your income, expenses etc. ---   See here -->         2025 Schedule C (Form 1040)         Publication 334 (2025), Tax Guide for Small Business | Internal Revenue Service (b)   File a Form 2555 for  excluding your "self-employment" income from US taxes   ( FEIE ) --->          Foreign earned income exclusion | Internal Revenue Service   One more item to note  -- a US person is required to participate in Social Security and Medicare   tax contribution -- generally  15.3%  on about 92% of your net income  from Schedule-C.     I do not see that Zambia  as one of the countries with a Totalization agreement with US Social Security.  Thus you are liable for this  Social Security Tax -- you use  Schedule-SE for this.   Is there more I can do for you ?

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The Rental Real Estate Enterprise Statement (RREES) will typically generate without needing to manually add it when you have indicated that you want to take the QBI safe harbor during your Schedule E interview in Step-by-Step mode.   When you are completing the Step-by-Step interview questions and reach, "Let's see if you're eligible for the QBI safe harbor", select Yes and then check whether it is for this property only, or for an enterprise. Note that if you would like for a set of properties to populate on the same RRES, you will need to ensure that they are assigned to the same enterprise group number.   Once you have made those selections on your Schedule E, you can switch to Forms Mode to verify by checking the following:   Select your Schedule E and scroll down to the Qualified Business Income Deduction Smart Worksheet and you should see Yes in the A 1 box, "Is this a qualified trade or business" and also subsection a, "This rental is part of a Rental Real Estate Enterprise...", will be checked and the enterprise group number will appear in the box. From there, you can QuickZoom to the RREES.    Note that the information from the property transfers to your RREES automatically, so you should not make edits on this form directly. Instead, you can make any revisions on your Schedule E, which will then transfer to the RREES.   Additional forms to check are your Form 8995 Qualified Business Income Deduction Simplified Computation, as well as your Form 1040, Line 13.

Only enter the 1095-A that applies to the people on your tax return.  If your daughter received her own 1095-A, she will enter it in her return.  In the 1095-A interview, indicate that you 'shared a policy with someone not on your return', give her SSN, and allocate a % of the policy on your return.     Your daughter indicates a 'shared' policy on her return also, your SSN and an allocation %.   The IRS wants to match up the amounts on both returns to equal 100%.  This will resolve your 'duplicate policy' error.   @markmontgomery103             

You can't use the Simplified method for self-employment. You have the option to use a Simplified logbook, but you still have to claim your actual vehicle expenses. The flat rate is for medical expenses & Northern residents deductions.    

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If your divorce or separation agreement was executed prior to 2019, then alimony you paid is reported on Schedule 1, line 19 along with the recipient's SSN and the date the divorce was finalized.  Alimony is not counted as an itemized deduction, but is an adjustment to income and does reduce your taxable income by the amount of alimony paid.   Your screen printouts show that your Standard Deduction is the preferred deduction since it is larger than your itemized deductions.  Itemized deductions include items such as:  Medical expenses that are over 7.5% of your adjusted gross income, State and Local Taxes you paid (including the deductible amount of your Massachusetts excise tax payments), Mortgage interest, and Charitable contributions.  All of these amounts would need to be greater than the $31,500 standard deduction show on the screen for you as a Married Filing Jointly filing status.  Since the Massachusetts Excise Tax is not deductible separately, that would explain why it is showing as zero on the screenshot.  Even though the amount of Excise tax paid in 2024 shows up on that screen, that amount is not included in the total deductions for 2024.

sold rental property I work on this early a few days ago I know I need premiere but I thought I did that now going back I can't find it what I had already done I had help from a turbo tax persons can you help me

Yes!  When you get past the early entry part of the rental property you'll come to a screen with several options to enter data about the rental.  The fourth one down is "Assets/Depreciation" and you should click 'start' next to that.     Once in there you will enter the value of your home and what percentage of it you are renting out.  At that point the system will be able to prorate expenses for the entire home as a percentage deduction for the year, taking into account the 33% ownership and the rental days.  These are called 'indirect expenses'.     You will also need to enter 'direct expenses'.  These are expenses that are only for the rental (cleaning services, guest amenities, etc.).  Those aren't subject to the percentage.

This is a very stupid design. Why isn't there a way to assign my different T4As to different businesses? This is Self Employed Turbo Tax after all... shouldn't it be designed for Self-Employed people with multiple businesses? If I have multiple T4As from multiple independent businesses - all for professional services - there is no way to properly link them. I am having to find a new platform other than TurboTax to file my taxes with this year because of this issue. It would just take one button on the T4A page to have a dropdown menu of the businesses... or a spot to enter the business industry code from the business... makes no sense.    Based on what you are saying Susan, I have to falsely report my income from different businesses to the goverment, cause Turbo Tax is so poorly designed that it lumps all in T4A income into one business... this would be a disaster if I was audited cause it would not match my records at all. This defeats the entire purpose of honestly and accurately filing my taxes via Turbo Tax. Why haven't you fixed this since people have been posting about it here for 2 years? Does Turbo Tax just honestly not care about their users? 

Yes, you have completed the Sale of Business Property correctly. You can continue to file your return. No is the correct answer to the following: There are no 'Sales of Other Types of Business Properties',  Nothing to enter in 'Gross Proceeds' for another sale of other property types No to business use drops to 50% or less in 2025 - you are correct in your rationale. The sales profit is correct because the business cost basis is now below zero based on the depreciation taken. The gain cannot be more than the selling price, assuming your cost basis is reduced to zero after depreciation. If you had greater depreciation than the business cost, then your gain is maxed at the selling price of $1,820. @KR202526  [Edited: 03/21/2026 | 6:41 AM PST]

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