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North Carolina does not tax certain military retirement payments.  According to the North Carolina Department of Revenue:   ...a taxpayer may deduct the amount received during the taxable year from the United States government for the following payments: Retirement pay for service in the Armed Forces of the United States to a retired member that meets either of the following: Served at least 20 years. Medically retired under 10 U.S.C. Chapter 61. This deduction does not apply to severance pay received by a member due to separation from the member's armed forces. Payments of a Plan defined in 10 U.S.C. § 1447 to a beneficiary of a retired member eligible to deduct retirement pay under sub-subdivision a. of this subdivision. The deduction is only allowed to the extent the payments are included in the taxpayer's adjusted gross income.   Basically, if you have 20 years of service and are retired, your military retirement payments will be not be subject to North Carolina State tax.     Thank you for your service!

There's a bug in the program. Go to forms and pull up the capital loss carryover worksheet and i'm pretty sure you'll see the AMT column is populated incorrectly.  If you've never paid AMT before, it should have the same capital loss carryovers in both columns. As Turbo tax figures AMT every year apparently it's keep that data and then carrying it over to the next year and the program is using that column instead of your regular capital loss carryovers. If you've never had carryovers, I guess those columns would be zero, Anyway, I would make a duplicate file just in case, then as per Turbotax support which had me do this today, delete the capital loss carryover worksheet and form 6251. Then go back to Wages and Income, Investments, carryovers and following the prompts to enter your losses and gains which will make a new capital loss carryover worksheet. Then go to the Other Section, where it has you figure AMT and run through that. Your AMT should be gone if you don't owe any.

Thanks RobertB4444.  Just to make sure I understand your suggestion correctly: after I withdraw the excess contribution of $250, even though the $1550 was contributed by my employer (albeit erroneously), because it was contributed into my account (doesn't matter who contributed how much into the account), I can still indicate in my filing that I contributed $1550 and take a deduction for that amount? Basically, it is an IOU to my former employer.   If I do this, I am thinking that I will roll my account over to another institution by which the former employer cannot take the amount from my HSA without my knowledge but will have to ask me to repay which I will happily do so out of pocket with after tax dollars.

The amount on Schedule 2 line 17z is the total of the amounts in the "Line 17z - Other Taxes Smart Worksheet" between lines 17q and 17z in the Schedule 2 section of the "Form 1040 or Form 1040-SR Worksheet." The description to left of the amount on line 17z should give you an idea of what it is.  

It sounds like you are looking for a pdf copy of your tax return but can only locate the tax data file.  If you prepared your return using TurboTax Online, you can print/download a copy of your returns as follows:   Sign in to your TurboTax account Select Continue on the screen with  your prior-year summary.  Be sure you're using the same TurboTax account (user ID) that you used to prepare your returns. On the screen with product and pricing, scroll down and select Your tax returns & documents. Select the year you want, then select Download/print return (PDF). If the year you're looking for isn't there, it might be in a different account. Go here to find all of your accounts. One of them should have the return you're looking for. If you used the desktop software to prepare your return and did not save a pdf copy you will have to use the program to print a copy.  

You may not have reached the IRS reporting threshold for PayPal to send you Form 1099-K.  However, you are still required to report all business income to the IRS.   Refer to the TurboTax article PayPal 1099-K: A Guide for Sellers Paid Through PayPal             If you made the money for items that you sold but didn’t make a profit (items sold for the cost of less), you have nothing to report.   Refer to the TurboTax article Do I have to report personal items that I sold at a yard sale?   If you made a profit, you would enter the income that you received from PayPal as cash on Schedule C. 

Thanks for the quick response. I just tried using Microsoft Edge and it looks exactly the same as it does in Google Chrome.    Would it be possible to have a call tomorrow sometime after 10am Eastern time?

PK,   Thank you for your commitment to trying to help recreate/resolve this issue.  Like you, I am bugged this has gone unresolved despite hours on your part and mine.    I have deleted forms and data, restarted TurboTax, downloaded TurboTax updates, downloaded from my brokerage, entered items manually without download, and the issue persists.  If TurboTax had a mechanism to actually speak with someone who could look at the code that would probably be a start in the right direction.     Sadly, TurboTax makes it impossible (I was left hanging after one hour and 25 minutes on hold) to reach anyone that I can speak to about this issue.  I have all but given up on this product after using it for 25+ years.     It is beyond frustrating for me because if I could override 2 numbers (the Form 1116 Gross Income From All Sources Smart Worksheet "Calculated gross income from all sources" Line A, which is the same number that then appears on Column A, line 3e of the Form 1116) I could Efile my federal and state returns.  In the end, the automated computations from my actual data (for which there are no diagnostic errors) for gross income, is off 79%.  That is stunning for a product that millions of people are using, and my daily posts on this channel and feedback notes to TurboTax result in nothing changing in the calculations for my return.    I believe my data sources (e.g., W-2, 1099-DIV, 1099-B, 1099-MISC, 1099-SA, 1099-SSA) are likely the same as thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of other returns that are potentially getting filed erroneously by TurboTax.    Because the "calculated gross income from all sources" is so wildly wrong, it is hopeless to see this accurately presented on all those returns, many of which have likely already been filed.   And to jump back to a prior post, TurboTax actually had the gross income from all sources accurate until that 1099-MISC items was added wherein the entire computation blew apart at the seams.

To get started with TurboTax Online, sign in or create an account using the link here.     When you are finished entering all of your tax information, select FILE from the left side-bar menu in TurboTax Online.   TurboTax will take you through 3 steps to file your return.     You can get expert help along the way by clicking in the top right corner where it says Get expert help.   Or see the links below for information on full-service tax preparation.     How does TurboTax Expert Full Service work?