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Yes, that's correct. You can enter a date that correctly identifies the holding period using my example. Choose a 'Date acquired' by making sure it represents the correct holding period. You do not need 'Various' as a selection, you simply need a date that will give your long or short term holding period so the tax calculation is accurate.   @v8899 

You misunderstood something or saw the Total Refund amount on the TurboTax Tax Home website where is showed a math calculation for your total refund (Refund minus Taxes Owe).   A tax refund cannot be used to pay taxes owed. Based on your post you received the IRS Federal tax refund of $1,261 and you still have to pay the state taxes owed of $1,063.  

I agree, but nonetheless the refundable credit from Form 8839 is not properly imported on Line 15 of the 1040-x form.   Even worse if I go to thr Forms view and enter the correct value fails on the error check stating Lune 15 should be left blank.   This should be easy for Intuit to replicate and confirm the bug and rectify.

I no longer had that issue.  Because I deleted the form on the desktop version I went through all questions again.  That section B about water heaters and sub panels I answered no, which populates a No on line 21 which states skip forward to 26 (so nothing in line 25, no yes or no response) was correct and accepted.  I always use the desktop version, not online.  While somewhat frustrating, it's done, and it worked.  I will continue to purchase the desktop version and find late last year attractive pricing via Amazon, or some big box stores.  

It depends. There is no 'Form's section in TurboTax Online, however we can resolve this.    This is not an easy action for tax software to distinguish and so there will be some manual tracking on your part. The tracking is to remember and always keep with your current tax records the year or years no deprecation was taken on the property.   Here is how to enter your rental property that is now placed in service after being dormant for a year. Add each asset you had for the rental property from the beginning, with the original date placed in service (not 2025). Add any asset that was specifically placed in service for the first time in 2025 (purchased or capital improvements). TurboTax will appropriately calculate the proper depreciation for 2025. Use your tax return that most recently included this rental property to calculate the depreciation that was not used in earlier year(s). This entry should eliminate the experience you see for the building and land costs noted.   it's unclear what you mean by this statement, unless you are saying the original cost of the rental property has been fully depreciated in the past. Depreciation was taken during the previous period of rental (and that was, of course, only depreciating the improvements part of the property). Please update here with additional details after your enter the assets correctly.

If accepted by the IRS use the federal tax refund website to check the refund status - https://www.irs.gov/refunds If accepted by the state use this TurboTax support FAQ to check the state tax refund status - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/track-state-refund/L3jgO8PGs_...   After the tax return has been Accepted by the IRS (meaning only that they received the return) it will be in the Processing mode until the tax refund has been Approved and then an Issue Date will be available on the IRS website.

No, the income you received for a vehicle allowance should not be considered to be self-employment income.     To enter income from Form 1099-MISC so that it is reported on Form 1040 Schedule 1 line 8z as other income, use the following steps:   Go to Income > Other Common Income > Income from Form 1099-MISC and click Start or Update Answer Yes you did receive a 1099-MISC Fill in the details from your 1099-MISC then click Continue Provide a short description for the reason you received the 1099-MISC then click Continue On the next screen titled, “Does one of these uncommon situations apply?” choose the last option, None of these apply (unless one of the choices does apply to you -- then you may not see the remaining questions shown here, but the income will be reported) and then click Continue On the next screen asking if the 1099 involved work like your main job, answer No and click Continue On the next screen, check the box that you received the income in 2025 and then click Continue Finally, choose “No, it didn’t involve an intent to earn money” and click Continue

@user17733491813 Doing a test return using other amounts.  Sale Price 100,000 basis of $50,000.  Gross Profit percentage (Line 19) 0.50,  Principal payment received $1,000, Interest payment received $2,000. (Line 20) 0 (Line 21) $1,000 (Line 22) $1,000 (Line 24) $500 (Line 26) $500   I see no errors on the Form 6252   Have you updated your software to the latest release?  Click on Online at the top of the desktop program screen.  Click on Check for Updates   Current TurboTax for Windows Version 025.000.0279

@DianeW777 the problem is there is no way to do this in TurboTax Desktop. It will not accept anything other than a date in the "Box 1d - Date acquired" box. The online version allows you to select VARIOUS, but not in desktop. 

No worries - mine doesn't either.  Is Turbotax asking you for them?  It didn't ask me.  Box 16 on a "regular" 1099-R (like from the TSP) is the state distribution and 17 is the local tax.  Those boxes are blank on all our 1099-Rs that do have the printed boxes.   What you will do when filling out your state forms (I'm assuming your state taxes your pension same as the federal form does) is to use the taxable portion of your pension in box 2 (if the state form even asks for it separately) same as you do for the federal form.  If you had state tax withheld from your pension, it will be listed in box 14.  If you had a local tax withheld, see if your annuity statement on Services Online lists how much was withheld for the local taxes and use that as line 17 but call or email OPM and ask that they provide a corrected 1099-R (they may not be able to if the CSA 1099-R never includes that box) or at least some kind of official statement.  Print out the end of year statement from Services Online and keep for your records even though they say not to use it for taxes.

Thank you very much for quick reply and link to the article.   Now I have a different issue. Since I haven't yet contributed to traditional IRA and transferred to Roth, I don't have 1099-R forms. Any idea how I can navigate through this?   TIA