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Different states take different amounts of time to process tax returns and pay refunds. To check on your state refund go to the following link and then click on the name of your state. How do I track my state refund?  

The new car loan interest deduction allows taxpayers who qualify to deduct up to $10,000 interest paid on a qualifying auto loan for tax years 2025-2026.   Refer to the TurboTax articles IRS Rules for the One Big Beautiful Bill Car Loan Interest Deduction: What You Need to Know,  What is the vehicle loan interest deduction? and Video: One Big Beautiful Bill: New Car Loan Interest Deduction (Part 4) for more information. To enter your car loan interest deduction, follow the steps below:   Open your tax return Select Federal in the left-hand column, then Deductions & Credits Navigate to the list of Deductions and Credits Select Other Deductible expenses Locate the section Cars and Other Things You Own and click on the arrow on the right Click Start next to Car Loan Interest  TurboTax will guide you through entering your car loan interest. Your deduction will transfer to Schedule 1-A of your form 1040, which is then transferred together with other deductions such as the additional senior deduction, to line 13b of your form 1040.  

Your tax return is the form you send to the government that shows your income and calculates your tax. The money the government sends back to you is your refund. You did not receive your federal return. You sent your federal return to the IRS. You received your federal refund. You will not receive your state return. You sent your state return to the state. There is no connection between your federal refund and your state refund. Federal and state tax returns are processed by different agencies, and each works on its own schedule. The date that you received your federal refund does not tell you anything about when you will receive your state refund. To check on your state refund go to the following link and then click on the name of your state. How do I track my state refund?  

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.