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What is considered "unsecured", or is it just because it is a personal loan? They are all through Cashapp and documented. Also, would we report if we just pay someone a large chunk from help over the years that was not loaned this tax year? 

MY SPOUSE LIVES ABROAD AND/OR DOES NOT HAVE A SSN https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/taxation/married-person-claim-head-household-filing-status/L078u1RSW_US_en_US?uid=lmtc1ov4 https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-credits-deductions/file-taxes-spouse-nonresident-alien/L4AuRKrMd_US_en_US?uid=m5r1a77j https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/nonresident-spouse   https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/family/claiming-a-non-citizen-spouse-and-children-on-your-taxes-/L6VM4IzTQ

It sounds like you're trying to fill out the forms yourself by hand. If you use TurboTax to prepare your child's tax return TurboTax will do all the calculations for you. It's much easier, and less error-prone. TurboTax will fill out Form 8615 correctly for you.  

Thank you so much for your  detailed response    (b) We actually got married in the US while my wife was on vacation, but we never got around to registering the marriage in her home country - dealing with all the bureaucracy was a pain. (d) non American companies don’t pay as much and my line of work requires me to “live” at the job place + I’m building the pension with the Union I work for …that’s why it makes more sense to fly back and forth. But being eligible for MFJ + standard deduction + FEIE would save me a a really good amount of money off the federal taxes I pay. (e) would her foreign income be subject to SECA/FICA even after the FEIE?

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@cchammond wrote: If the desktop app is obsoleted, I will look for other options You may not have any if that winds up being the case. All other providers will probably be 100% online as well at that time.   The only other option is a tax pro, but many of them use tax prep software where the data entered is stored in the cloud anyway.

I had a similar problem on the desktop version for 2025 Mac.  No matter what I did, I could not get the continue button to work.  What DID work is that I saved last year's return as not password protected and then double clicked it and when it prompted me for the app I picked the 2025 version and it transferred my data!

Employers have until the end of January to issue W-2's; you are hoping to import it on January 1, so you may have to be more patient. https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/import-enter-w-2/L55HzdeDr_US_en_US?uid=m68efe36