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It’s too late to do 2024 online.  Online has closed to get ready for 2025.  If you need to do 2024 or prior you can buy the Desktop download here, TurboTax 2022 Prior Year Tax Prep - File Past Years' Taxes You will need a full Windows or Mac to install it on.   All the Desktop programs have the same forms. You just get more help and guidance in the higher versions like Home & Business for Schedule C.   They don’t have extra live expert help for prior years, sorry.   You can ask any questions here in the forum.  Or you should go to  local tax place to do 2024.

Following up on your response:   DoninGA (Level 15) posted a new reply in Business & farm on November 26, 2025 10:51 AM: Re: How do I register to file a personal form 1040 with a schedule C for business activity and TurboTax expert support? The 2025 TurboTax online editions are not yet available. They should be available in early December.   I am late filing for 2024.  I need the currently available TurboTax personal 1040 plus small business (Schedule C) support package.  If like to work on it today, so send me whatever link I need to sign up!  Thank you. 

You may have more than one online account.  See this TurboTax support FAQ for how to view all of your online account information - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/many-intuit-accounts-turbotax/L9aVfKS1Z_US_en_US?uid=ll5g6zcx   To access your current or prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the User ID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/ Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and on the section Your tax returns & documents.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)   If you used the desktop CD/Download editions installed on your computer, the only copy of your tax data file and any PDF's will be on the computer where the return was created.  TurboTax does not store online any returns completed using the desktop editions.   See this TurboTax support FAQ for contacting support - https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/turbotax-phone-number/L0Od33nMQ_US_en_US?uid=lfgviwbm

@Toksica You will have to enter absolutely everything from scratch, including data re your rental properties.   Please make sure you save a PDF copy and a copy of your *.tax2025 file to something like a USB flash drive after you finish your 2025 return(s).

@NCperson , generally agreeing with you in some aspects -- but note that 1116 recognizes  the full amount claimed and only limits  the current year allowable amount to the lesser of US tax ( allocated) and  Foreign Tax claimed. The 300 per filer allows the full amount claimed ( upto 300  ) but allows no carry over.  And of course this is for specific category of income only.

Hello @Mike9241 , yes those were the days when pub 17 was only a few pages and easy to digest.  While I am not familiar with the case that you mention, I would suggest that the decision was based on  " a taxpayer  cannot  take any action/steps/claims if it were ONLY with the purpose of avoiding a tax " -- in this case avoiding AMT. My contention that  you can choose to claim a reduced amount of  Foreign Tax are based on : (1) there is nothing in the code that says you have to recognize any  Foreign Taxes paid -- thus it assumes that the taxpayer would do everything legal to reduce the tax burden.   The tax treaties themselves generally provide a path to reduce double taxation burden by requiring the contracting states to provide tax relief through foreign tax credit ( full amount paid) and US chooses to recognize the full amount CLAIMED but  allows  amount limited to lesser of amount claimed/paid and allocated US tax on the same doubly taxed foreign source income. But there is nothing that says a taxpayer must recognize the tax treaty or claim FTC (2)  the code actually uses " if taxpayer chooses..."  regarding claiming Foreign Taxes paid   " 26 USC 901 -- "(a) Allowance of credit If the taxpayer chooses to have the benefits of this subpart, the tax imposed by this chapter shall" (3)  it cautions the taxpayer that by choosing to use the "simplified / safeharbor" amount   of US$300 per filer, taxpayer cannot carryback/forward -- suggesting that the writers of the code did envisage that some  taxpayers may claim an amount less than actual paid of Foreign Taxes and so wanted to cutoff the  "double dipping" (4)  this is not a way to reduce tax liability i.e. this is not solely for purpose  "avoidance" of taxation.   (5) To @NCperson ,  I don't know how to answer  your point about increasing net income on schedule-C and thereby qualifying for "other / income based " credits.  But for my small brain, it seems that IRS / code cannot force  a filer to recognize  expenses against an income even if that means  credits  ( non-refundable or otherwise) while paying higher income tax and SECA taxes.  I am not very familiar with the language of the relevant code sections.  My general sense is that while one has to recognize all income ( it is a must function), only specific deductions are allowed ( and therefore  it is a "may" function ). I am, by no means, asking a user to use this mechanism to bypass the form 1116 limitations ( and giving up any carry over benefits ) but offering a possibility. The choice  and the results belong to the individual user.   regards  pk  

TurboTax gives you an estimated date for receiving your refund based on a 21 day average from your date of acceptance, but it can take longer.  “21 days”  is not a promise from TurboTax or the IRS.      First, check your e-file status to see if your return was accepted:  https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/efile-status-lookup/   Once your federal return has been accepted by the IRS, only the IRS has any control.  TurboTax does not receive any updates from the IRS. Your ONLY source of information about your refund now is the IRS.     You need your filing status, your Social Security number and the exact amount  (line 35a of your 2024 Form 1040) of your federal refund to track your Federal refund:    https://www.irs.gov/refunds   To track your state refund:     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/track-state-refund/L3jgO8PGs_US_en_US?uid=lt447ebr   If you chose to have your TurboTax fees deducted from your federal refund, that will take some extra time, while the third party bank handles the refund processing     https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/refunds-take-longer-others/L14YlqFrH_US_en_US?uid=lexdr7zh . https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/irs-refund-taking-longer-21-days/L2vRAJbdU_US_en_US?uid=lexe7lst  

in this instance, the IRS instructions read that you are not required to file form 1116 if    Your total creditable foreign taxes aren't more than $300 ($600 if married filing a joint return). note the word "are"  - if they are above $300 / $600, the mere pencil eraser stroke does not magically make that become no more than $300 / $600   they are what they are and I do not see that the taxpayer has the right to reduce it of their own will.    If they did, any time someone had foreign tax credit above $300 / $600, they would reduce to that level if the math on Form 1116 resulted in something less than $300/ $600, which appeared to be the case for this OP.    I do not believe that is the intent- if it was, why wouldn't the IRS just design the instructions and the form that way?  

@NCperson @pk interesting. Back decades ago, when there were no PC's, internet and you could carry the entire IRC in one hand, there was a court case about a somewhat similar issue. H&W claimed only enough in schedule A real estate taxes to avoid the AMT. The court said too bad you must use the entire amount even though it creates AMT. I don't know if this was appealed. I felt that the court decision was wrong.  

from a conversation a few weeks back with customer care they said only 100k people used the ID service which is lower than I would have guessed but does explain why they pulled the plug.  only about 10% itemize since the 2017 tax law but across Intuit's total user base of about 40mil returns that would still be a lot, so I suppose not many people need a tool to track frequent donations of this type.   if the 100k holds excluding also people that move to HRB if that works for them, also means that likely not all of these apps springing up (at least 5 so far) will survive; tho anecdotally based on this forum Deductible Duck seems to have been quickest to fill the gap and gained good traction with this community.