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@MaryK4    all Military retirement pay is now eligible to be deducted, as long as it was for 20 years service, or more..   .....since 2021 Bailey eligibility limitations are longer required. see: Military Retirement | NCDOR

Yes, the Deluxe desktop edition supports the Schedule K-1   To enter a Schedule K-1 Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home and Business) Click on Wages and Income (Personal Income using Home and Business) Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown) Scroll down to Business Items (Business Investment and Estate/Trust Income using Home and Business) On Schedule K-1, Q, click on the start or update button

No, you don't need to wait to file your taxes. You can file your return now and indicate that you’re claiming a coverage exemption. If the state needs proof later, they will contact you, so just keep your exemption documentation.

If you are abroad, meaning not physically present in the US, then the work is outside the US.  If you are a non-resident alien, then this income is generally not taxable to you.  However, if you are a US Citizen or Resident for tax purposes, then you would still need to include this income on your form 1040. Although you would still need to report the income, you may be able to claim a foreign tax credit or the foreign earned income exclusion.    If you visited the US at all to do the work, then the work you performed while in the US would be inside the US.     

If TurboTax is not letting you continue, you can try the following: Go out of your program and go back in. Clear your cache and cookies. Try a different Web Browser. If you are using TurboTax Desktop make sure all updates have been run on your program. You can do this by clicking on "Online" in the black bar across the top of your TurboTax screen. And then select "Check for Updates". If you have any additional questions or information regarding this please return to TurboTax Community and we would be glad to help.

The purchase dates are required to be tracked by you at all times. If you're not sure then you would have to make an educated guess, with reasonable records, to determine if they are held long term or short term. Once you decide this you will know what date to use to create the correct holding period (see below). You can summarize your transactions into one or two entries based on holding period.   Holding Periods: Long term is a holding period of more than one year (one year plus one day) and receives capital gain tax treatment (0%, 10%, 15%, 20% depending on your regular rate of tax) Short term is a holding period of one year or less and receives ordinary gain tax treatment (your regular rate) Funds that invest in precious metals like gold and silver are treated like collectibles for U.S. tax purposes, which means long-term capital gains from those funds will be taxed at a top rate of 28%, compared with a maximum rate of 20% for stocks. Short term gains will be taxed at the ordinary or marginal tax rate for your situation. IRS Snapshot of Collectibles TurboTax can handle your collectible sale as you will see next. Review or enter your sales to be sure they are marked as collectibles.    To record your sale/redemption in TurboTax Desktop (non-online version) use the following steps: Open your TurboTax Return > Search ( upper right) > type collectibles > Click the Jump to... link Edit beside your Sale or Add More Sales > Continue (or Edit or Review on your gold and silver sale(s) entry) Enter the information about your sale on the screen 'Tell us about your 'Investment Firm' 1099-B' Select or confirm Collectibles for the selection 'What type of investment did you sell?' Enter any other information for this screen then select Continue > Review the next screen and when finished select Continue

Thanks.  I've been working with TurboTax Support on this and all of this was done.  Several times.  Note that this is the desktop versions and does not use a browser.  The payment is a fee for state filing and there is no direct debit payment option.  I tried talking to TurboTax to do a direct debit and was told that it was not possible.  I checked with the credit card company and verified the card was good.  I also verified that TurboTax had not made any attempt to submit a payment.  Sure, I could file by mail but, since this issue appears to be an on-going problem, I am willing to spend some time to get TurboTax to fix it.

This return cannot be filed at this time due to a processing error that will be corrected on April 3, 2026. On or after this date, open the rejected return, review it for errors, and resubmit the return for electronic filing.

When TurboTax gets stuck in this loop, it's usually because the program believes there's still an error or missing information, even if you have already entered it.   Run Final Review to confirm all errors and missing data are resolved. If you have the option, use Chrome as your Browser. Clear your browser's cache and cookies completely, close the browser, and try again. Use Incognito/Private Mode. located in the three dots in the top right of the screen Open in Incognito mode

Please clarify if your entries are not being saved to your return or if you are seeing a "Needs Review" tag (or zero) in the Rental Property summary page.   Also, have you followed the previous instructions to clear your cache & cookies?   @user17750108876 

Form 8915 is for qualified disaster distributions and repayments.  If this does not apply to your situation, but the form is  being generated, you can fix this by going back and double check your answers.  There are a couple of questions that ask if this is a disaster withdrawal and if this is a repayment of a disaster withdrawal.  If you answered yes to either of those questions or said that you spread repayment over 3 years, this form would be generated.     To fix this issue, walk back through the questions asked after entering the 1099-R.  To do this select Income>>Update next to the 1099-R.     As you go through pay special attention to the wording and answer the questions as they apply correctly. If you did not do a disaster withdrawal or repayment be sure to answer the question to say you did not take one or repay one.   After you go through those answers, you can then delete the form if it did not go away on its own.  See instructions below on how to delete a form in TurboTax Online.  In desktop, you will just switch to forms mode.     From the left rail menu in TurboTax Online, select Tax Tools (You may have to scroll down on the left rail menu.) On the drop-down select Tools On the Pop-Up menu titled “Tools Center,” select Delete a Form  This will show all of the forms in your return Scroll down to the form you want to delete Select the Form Click on Delete.  Always use extreme caution when deleting information from your tax return.  There could be unintended consequences.   

We have tested Minnesota form M1QPEN.    The form may display and report $0 amount qualified for subtraction.  The form is coded ‘N’ for Not eligible for subtraction.  Minnesota form M1 does not report a pension subtraction.   In such cases, the form is not included in the final forms reporting Minnesota income tax.   Thank you for your patience.    @steve-kohlmeyer

Customer support is available 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pacific time. Phone support is not provided with the Free Edition.  If you are using a paid version of the software or if you purchased PLUS you can get phone support when customer support is there.  Otherwise, post your question here and someone will try to help.   To call TurboTax customer support https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/contact-turbotax/L2y9ZKpQB_US_en_US?uid=m5s9l2vh  

Most payment errors are caused because of your address not matching the credit card address, issues with your browser, or credit card authorization issues.  To fix this:   Make sure the address on your return matches the address on the credit card Clear your cache and cookies. Try a different Web Browser. If you are using TurboTax Desktop make sure all updates have been run on your program. You can do this by clicking on "Online" in the black bar across the top of your TurboTax screen. And then select "Check for Updates".

Yes, here are the answers to your questions.   1) Why you don’t see “Data Source” or “QuickZoom” on Form 1116 AMT, Line 18 (Mac Desktop TurboTax Premier 2025) TurboTax’s Mac desktop UI is different from the Windows version, and several long‑standing right‑click features (Data Source, Jump To, QuickZoom) do not appear on all forms in the Mac build. This is a known inconsistency and has been reported repeatedly by users. There is no official documentation from Intuit explaining why certain forms lack right‑click options on macOS, but multiple TurboTax forum threads confirm that: Some worksheets exist internally but cannot be opened from the Mac UI.  Some forms do not expose Data Source even though they do on Windows. This matches exactly what you’re seeing. 2) Why you cannot find the “Foreign Tax Credit (Form 1116) Computation Worksheet” in the Forms list TurboTax employees have confirmed that: The Line 18 Worksheet is included in the desktop version, BUT it is not always visible in the Forms list, and It is often omitted from the PDF, even when TurboTax used it in the calculation. This is a known limitation and has been complained about by multiple users. It is addressed in this TurboTax link. So your experience is consistent with others: the worksheet exists internally, but TurboTax does not expose it in the Mac UI or in the printed forms. 3) Why TurboTax is using different multipliers than the IRS worksheet — and where those numbers come from You are correctthat the IRS Instructions for Form 1116 (2025) do not mention any AMT‑specific multipliers in the Line 18 worksheet. And you are also right that the IRS worksheet uses:   0.4595 for 20% rate income  0.5946 for 15% rate income These are the correct IRS‑published factors. So now you ask,  why is TurboTax giving you different numbers?   3. TurboTax is modifying the worksheet for AMT — but the IRS does not explicitly say to do this. This is the source of the confusion. A tax expert discussion (Claimyr, 2026)  explains this here that:   The AMT version of Form 1116 must use AMT‑adjusted taxable income,  Therefore the Line 18 worksheet must be recomputed using AMT income, Even though the IRS does not explicitly publish a separate AMT worksheet. This is because Form 6251 creates a parallel tax system, and the foreign tax credit must be computed within that system. This means: The IRS worksheet factors (0.4595, 0.5946) are correct for regular tax.  TurboTax is recomputing the factors using AMT taxable income, which changes the ratios. The IRS does not publish the AMT‑specific factors, so each software vendor must compute them internally. This is why you cannot find the numbers TurboTax uses anywhere on the IRS website. 4) Why your spreadsheet still doesn’t match TurboTax even when you use the suggested factors This is also consistent with known issues. Two things are happening: A) TurboTax is applying AMT adjustments that are not documented anywhere in the UI Users have reported that TurboTax: Adds back the standard deduction for AMT purposes Adjusts qualified dividends and capital gains differently Uses AMT taxable income instead of regular taxable income Applies the new 2025 Line 18 rules (which changed significantly) B) TurboTax does not show the worksheet it actually used This is why you cannot reconcile the numbers — you are missing the internal worksheet. This is confirmed by multiple users who could not match TurboTax’s Line 18 calculation because the worksheet is hidden.   So is TurboTax doing it wrong? Based on all available evidence: TurboTax is doing it right, even if it may appear that they aren't. The IRS does not publish an AMT‑specific Line 18 worksheet. The IRS does require that AMT foreign tax credit calculations use AMT taxable income. Therefore, the software must internally adjust the worksheet. TurboTax does this, but does not show the worksheet, especially on Mac.  @TDTorc65