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@juham2013 in an earlier post you said: "A. Won't the fact that we move from the 12% bracket to the 22% bracket (higher Federally taxed income) cause me getting double-taxed?  The tax treaty is supposed to prevent that from happening."   The answer is no, this isn't "double taxation".  There may be a misconception here about how the tax treaty works:  when it says for example that a foreign country has the right to tax the foreign pension, it doesn't mean that the US ignores that income.   It just means that the foreign country taxes it FIRST.  But if the foreign country taxes the income at a lower rate than you would have paid on the same income in the US, then the IRS will collect additional tax such that overall you pay at least as much tax on foreign-sourced income as you would if it were domestically sourced.   It's hard to come up with simple examples, but I'll try: Say you have $1000 foreign pension that was taxed at 15% by the foreign government, so they collected $150. Say under US tax law, when combined with all your other worldwide income, the IRS determines that your average tax rate on this type of income in the US is 20%, or $200. So the US charges you the $200 in tax, but with Form 1116 they allow you to claim a credit for the $150 you already paid to foreign government, so the net result is you pay $50 to the US, $150 to the foreign government, so $200 in total. That may feel like double taxation, but really it isn't: the $1000 has only been taxed once, at the higher of the two tax rates.  And that is the usual outcome of these types of foreign tax credit calculations:  you always end up paying the higher of the two tax rates assessed by the two countries.    

Para actualizar su informacion personal:   Valla a Mis Datos (hacia la izquierda de la pantalla) Oprima comenzar debajo de su nombre para hacer cambios sobre sus datos Al regresar al la pantaña primaria de Mis datos, busca la seccion que dice Informacion del dependiente y orime Repasar Siga los pasos en esa seccion y haga los cambios necesarios

I am having the same exact problem in 2026. No one has been able to answer the question. If it does not support e-filing prior year returns. Why does the actual return tell me "Do not mail a paper copy of your tax return. Since you filed electronically, the Franchise Tax Board already has your return."  HOWEVER, I never actually e-filed the amendment.

Tried again today after almost 1 week beyond 3/13.  With the latest updates installed, it allowed me to directly refile without any changes on the forms,  and the federal return was accepted within minutes afterwards. Hopefully people in this thread have all fixed this error in one way or another.  Although the outcome is fine and it's still several weeks before 4/15, I would say TT has a little more to be expected in terms of software quality and timeliness of fixing problems.  

Thank you for your suggestions. I am using TT online, so most of them do not seem to apply. The Federal Review link in the left column online does not give any hint as to what forms might be in play. Clicking into it resulted in the error. At any rate, the error was gone today. The two things it wanted me to review were both on Schedule E, and one of them seemed to be related to my use of an unsupported character in one of the fields.