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https://turbotax.intuit.com/irs-tax-extensions/   An extension does not give you extra time to pay your estimated tax due—-which must be paid by April 15, 2026.  An extension gives you extra time to prepare your tax return.  You have until October 15 to e-file it.

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Why is it non taxable?   Conversions to ROTH IRA are usually taxable.   What code is in box 7? If you are looking at an income summary screen or review screen those show all the full amounts as income and lump a lot of stuff together. You need to check the actual 1040 line 4b or 5b and make sure it's right.

The first page of your tax return PDF is the Filing instructions - that page will show the account and amount you have scheduled.   It normally takes the IRS a few days to take the  payment, but it is effective the date you scheduled it.  

@mofflm1    Additional ~$1700 might come from   1) Property/Real Estate taxes paid  in 2025 2)  Final balance due you paid to the State during 2025 but FOR your 2024 state taxes that you filed last year. 3) If you paid a "2024" 4th Quarter State estimated tax payment in January of 2025, that can be included. 4)  If you were due to receive a State refund for your 2024 State taxes...but let the state keep some or all of it as an Estimated tax payment for 2025, then that would be included too.  

If TurboTax says "Ready" for your state return after your federal return was accepted it means the state return is prepared but hasn't been actually submitted. You should go back to the "File" section to transmit the state return, as it is not always done automatically.

You cannot deduct as business losses more than you have invested in a business. For instance, if you contribute $50,000 to start a business and you lose $60,000 in the first year, you can only deduct $50,000, the amount you have invested. So, you are at risk for $50,000 in the business before you deduct the $50,000 loss, after which time you are not longer "at risk" in the business.   So, if you have a loss on the business in the current year, but you have invested more in the business than the amount of the loss, then you would not check the not at-risk box in TurboTax.