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Bonjour, J'ai reçu un T4 et un Relevé 1 de mon employeur qui est situé à Gatineau, QC. Dans la case 10, il est indiqué QC. J'ai déménagé de Gatineau au Nouveau-Brunswick en avril 2025. J'ai gardé le même employeur. Au 31 décembre, je résidais au Nouveau-Brunswick. Est-ce que j'impute mon T4 en indiquant QC dans la case 10? Ou NB? Comment est-ce que j'entre mon relevé 1? Est-ce que je l'impute comme un autre T4? Si oui, je mets quoi dans la case 10? Merci d'avance.

In March 2026,  I did a late Backdoor Roth contribution and need to know if I need to report it on my 2025 taxes. If so, how do I do that if I didn't receive a 1099-R?  I used my brokerage account to make the contribution first to a traditional IRA and then the funds were converted over to the Roth IRAs.  Since this was done this year, is it still considered a contribution in 2025 for the traditional IRA and do I need to fill out the 8606 form?

Form 8829 Line 42 depreciation is wrong when your home office percentage changes year-over-year. This is a software bug. I changed my home office from 10% to 5% this year. TurboTax is understating my depreciation deduction by ~$242, and I can show exactly why. This is not an input error. I can reproduce it by changing only the business-use percentage while keeping everything else the same. The deduction should scale proportionally with the percentage — it's a straight multiply on the form — but it doesn't. Below ~3%, depreciation drops to $0 entirely. That's wrong: you don't lose your deduction because your office is small. I've seen other threads in this forum with the same symptom on 8829 that were closed without resolution. I've done the math to isolate the bug and I can reproduce it to within rounding precision. Details below — this needs to get to the engineering team.   The symptom Per the form instructions, Line 42 = Line 40 × Line 41. TurboTax is not computing that product. Holding all home information constant and varying only business-use percentage: - 1.66% → $0 - 3.33% → $173 - 5.00% → $527 - 6.66% → $882 - 10.00% → $1,590 These should be proportional to the percentage. Instead they follow a line with an offset — consistent with a hidden subtraction being applied before the depreciation calculation. The root cause My home was purchased March 2014, 39-year SL/mid-month. I used 10% business use for prior years and reduced to 5% this year. TurboTax appears to be: 1. Taking cumulative depreciation already claimed at the old 10% basis (~$14,634 over ~9.8 years) 2. Computing the new office basis at 5% ($29,997) 3. Subtracting the old cumulative depreciation from the new, smaller basis ($29,997 − $14,634 = $15,363) 4. Spreading the remainder over remaining useful life ($15,363 ÷ 29.17 years ≈ $527) It also explains the offset pattern and why small percentages zero out. Why that's wrong The asset being depreciated is the entire home ($599,934), not the office portion. Each year, 1/39th of the home's basis depreciates, and the office-use percentage determines what fraction of that is deductible. After ~10 years, 10/39 of the home's basis has been consumed — leaving 29/39, or ~$446,101. At 5% business use, that's $22,305 of depreciable basis remaining over 29 years — $769/year. That's exactly what the straight Line 40 × Line 41 multiply produces. TurboTax is instead treating the office portion as the asset — subtracting $14,634 of prior depreciation (taken at 10%) directly from the new 5% basis of $29,997. That conflates the deductible portion with the underlying asset and double-counts the reduction when the percentage shrinks. Impact ~$242 understatement at my percentages. The error scales with the gap between old and new business-use percentage, and completely zeroes out the deduction at small percentages. This is affecting anyone who changed their home office size between tax years. Note that this same logic would overstate depreciation for someone starting a home office late in the asset's life.  In the last year of a 39 year depreciation period, a 10% office would depreciate a full 10% of the house basis in a single year.   I haven't verified this impact, but other threads have mentioned strange numbers that could very well be this.

Text reads as follows: Description of error: If 'PINTypeCd' in the Return Header has the value "Self-Select On-Line" and the filing status of the return is married filing jointly and Form 1040, [('CombatZoneLiteralCd' and 'CombatZoneCd') in 'CombatZoneDtl' and 'SpecialConditionTxt' and 'SpouseDeathDt' ] do not have values, then 'SpouseBirthDt' in the Return Header must match the e-File database. What needs to be done: This return has been rejected because the date of birth entered by the spouse on the "Sign Your Return" screen does not match date of birth information that the IRS has obtained from the Social Security Administration. Verify information that has been entered for the spouse, including Name, Social Security Number (SSN), Date of Birth, and if applicable Date of Death. After reviewing spouse information, go to the File tab follow on screen instructions to resubmit your return. When you get to the screen, "Sign Your Return" check the Date of birth that has been entered for the spouse to ensure that it is accurate. Resubmit your return. If you have confirmed that all information has been entered correctly, call the Social Security Administration (SSA) at (800) 772-1213 to verify that their records are correct. If SSA records are updated, it can take up to four weeks to transfer the updated information to the IRS. Wait four weeks and then re-file the return. If the reject continues, or if you do not want to wait four weeks to re-file electronically, you may print and file this return by mail. I can't make sense of this, what am I supposed to do?

I need to adjust W2 income for amounts I've paid to a Nominee, and reported to them on a 1099Misc (under the terms of a divorce decree). There seems to be no way of entering this adjustment (it should be made on Schedule 1, line 24z). Any suggestions? thanks.