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TurboTax gets no information after you file your tax return, so no one at TT knows that you had to verify your identity.  Only the IRS is in control.   It is not unusual to get a request to verify your identity, especially  if you filed really early in the tax season.  You will need to watch the IRS refund site for information; it may take nine weeks for your refund to be issued after you verify identity, or it might be sooner.   You need your filing status, your Social Security number and the exact amount  (line 35a of your 2025 Form 1040) of your federal refund to track your Federal refund:    https://www.irs.gov/refunds   To track your state refund:      

i understand that. but home office 2 is a LOT more expensive than home office 1 - and so putting only 25% of the year there is going to make turbo tax bias home office 1 more in my final home office deduction and a lot of those expenses for home office 2 will not get deducted.   am i making sense? is my fear reasonable?   is this just how it works and there is no way to capture that extra deduction from the more expensive home office because it was only used 25% of the year?   the way i'm looking at it is that in in 2025 i spent $XXXXX.XX dollars   on home office related expenses ( rent, utilities, internet etc., )  and MOST of that money came from home office 2 which was only used 25% of the year..   but in my mind somehow, i still spent all that money on JUST my home office, why cant I deduct all of it? why does some of it get left on the table because i didn't spend enough time at home office 2?   home office 1 was, simply put, a LOT cheaper rent wise but i spent 75% of the year there   is there any legal way to capture all of the deduction i deserve and deduct all of my home office expenses for the year?

A few people have mentioned a class action lawsuit, I am very interested I feel extremely robbed - it's insane that my refund was a thousand dollars and Turbotax STOLE $249 of it when I declined every single upgrade they kept trying to force on me, I kept requesting the most bare bones and they never gave me a chance to consent to what they stole from me. I'll ask my lawyer about this too but please follow through if enough people do this we will get refunded because this is so wrong. I'll never use Turbotax again.

It isn't fixed. I have one dependent child and one non-dependent. Both received distributions for their 529 accounts. I can deduct room and board for the dependent child, but not for the non-dependent. The software will allow the expense if I go back to personal info and make her a dependent - not that that is solution, it just highlights the glitch.

The advice to open up the "Federal Information Worksheet." Scroll down to Part 6 and at the 5th paragraph see the "Foreign Tax Credit Form 1116". Checkmark the box to file form 1116 does not work. The form is not generated.   

Yes, it is sad though. I still couldn't download the 1099-B file in TXF turbotax format. I have been with Merrill Lynch for a decade already and never have problem with downloading for TurboTax software until this year. Oh well I had already created my 1099-B form for TurboTax a few weeks ago by following that YouTube video as a direction. I only wasted 1 hour for it. I chose this route for my tax 2025 because I have no choice.