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I appear to be having the same issue.  It asks for the RMD that should be paid by Dec 31 (this amount is less than the amount i entered for taxable distribution.  In the past it asked a second question, how much of this distribution applied to RMD.  There is no second question.  It automatically calculates a penalty

I printed my return and attempted to e-file. The system stopped the transmission and sent a message to apply an update to complete the filing.  The document completed being printed and now I cannot find the paid for and completed federal and state returns to file them.  I am using a Mac and the file in Finder is a new return with no data.  Please advise or provide a number to a human.  

See the following steps to enter your foreign taxes paid:   Go to Deductions & Credits Then Estimates and Other Taxes Paid And then Foreign Tax Credit Work through the screens to enter your foreign taxes paid. Here's a link that gives more detail on this subject: Where do I enter the foreign tax credit (Form 1116) or deduction?

@Siimpleking g wrote: Good day I was charged TurboTax Expert Assist Deluxe, may I asked why? Order Number: [redacted] This is mainly a user community forum.  No one can know anything here about a specific order/billing.  If you didn't electively choose the higher-level Expert Assist feature, then the 2 most likely reasons are either you mistakenly chose that upgrade, or you started off in a live expert product from the very beginning without realizing it.    Did you already pay it?   If not, that live expert feature can be removed prior to paying if it wasn't used, and we can tell you how.    Or did you go ahead and pay it anyway?   If you already paid, you can phone TurboTax Support and plead your best case, but they usually go by a rigid script in regards to Online TurboTax.  They frequently say that continuing to pay for the online product indicates agreement with the terms, but it can't hurt to try.   TurboTax Customer Support Hours 5AM-9PM Pacific, 7 days/week https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/contact/

The 6-digit PIN is an Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN), not an e-file PIN. An e-file PIN is 5 digits. You are trying to enter your 6-digit IP PIN in the place for a 5-digit e-file PIN. To enter your IP PINs go to Federal Taxes > Other Tax Situations > Other Return Info > Identity protection PIN.  

Thank you for sharing your workaround.  Alternatively, you can find the screens for Form 1116 by:   Going to Deductions & Credits Then Estimates and Other Taxes Paid And then Foreign Tax Credit Work through the screens to enter information for Form 1116. Here's a link that gives more detail on this subject: Where do I enter the foreign tax credit (Form 1116) or deduction?

Hello,    I am still encountering this issue while amending my return. I have tried clearing cache & cookies, using incognito browser, different browsers (Edge, Chrome, Firefox), even using mobile... I am still stuck in this loop where I cannot move forward.

If your 1099-B shows '0' in Box 1f, you can leave it blank when you enter your 1099-B.  If you can give details of your issue, we'll try to help.   Here's more info on Entering Accrued Market Discount.    @user17609727446 

@stegsaurus  Having read through this thread and generally agreeing with my colleague @Opus 17 , 1.  You wife (a Honduran citizen & GC of US ) will be considered  a Resident  ( for tax purposes ) for the  year 2025.  We are talking about Tax resident which is based only on SPT ( 183 days present counting all the days in current year + 1/3rd the days  present in the first prior year + 1/6th the days present in the 2nd prior year)   and/or GC.  It also requires that one meets at least 31 days in the current year to count days present. 2. For 2024  since she was  in the US less than 31 days, none counted.  And of course  till GC,  SPT is used each year for tax residency status. 3. Also note that the start date of the residency status is important ---- this is because  to use the standard deduction you must be a  tax resident for the full 365 days of the year. 4. For a person whom meets  SPT and GC in the same year, Tax Residency starts on the earliest date.   Thus for your wife , meeting SPT  meant she was a resident  for the  year starting Jan 1.  See -->  Residency starting and ending dates | Internal Revenue Service   "If you meet both the green card test and the substantial presence test in the same year, your residency starting date is the earlier of: The first day you are present in the United States during the year you pass the substantial presence test, or The first day you are present in the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident (green card holder)." 5.  As a tax resident (and then a GC), she is considered a US person and therefore  subject to  FBAR and FATCA regs.  And yes your conclusions are generally correct.   Note though that for FBAR, the requirement is not only for  bank account  you own but also have signature authority over  (  in many countries, the children are often nominee / signature authority  over aging parents accounts -- just in case of emergencies ). 6. Since you are married  ( and assuming that you , yourself  is a US person ) during 2025, your  best  tax filing status is indeed  MFJ for federal filing.   I think my colleague @Opus 17  has covered  all the bases  and the above is just  additional support. Is there more one of us can do for you ?

Scrolling through that very long post this guy in the link spent a day on the phone with Intuit and ended up restoring his laptop to default security settings then it worked.  Other users in the thread reported "Success! I removed the two recent copies (2025) of Microsoft Visual C++ and left the others (2022) installed.  Turbo Tax installed and activated. I have started my return.  Thanks for the suggested solutions to the problem."   So if you've already tried all the suggested things in that thread (not that I would advise wiping the entire machine just to get Turbotax working...) and still hitting a wall, it seems pretty slim chance of you getting "a fix" for this type of issue, it's probably time for Plan B.