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The last update my TurboTax received was April 3, 2025. I am quite sure it has been updated since then. I have stopped and restarted TurboTax. No updates seen. I have run check for updates and it says that my version is up to date.  There is a way to see all the current versions of your TurboTax under About TurboTax. Is there a website where you can compare your version to the latest TurboTax version to ensure it is updating? There should be a way for someone to verify this easily.

  I was unemployed in 2025 and was not aware that I should have paid  estimated taxes, which I have learned only after filing my 2025 taxes.   The TurboTax community suggested I put "let IRS assess the penalty fee"  AND advised  I could request First Time Abatement  since I was compliant my three prior years.   Attached Image 1 from the IRS website  showing the IRS penalty amount along with three prior years of compliance.  And for all of the last 30+ years as a taxpayer I never got assessed IRS penalty until tax year 2025.      The FTA abatement Form 843 requires me to enter the Internal Revenue Code section for non-payment of estimated taxes, which I understand should be included in the IRS notice of penalty but I never received one (see IMAGE 2 below - I signed up for online receipt of notices and the IRS notices section is empty).  What would the IRS Code section be in this case?    I have filled out my Form 843  and included a screenshot at the bottom) to request for abatement which I will later print out and mail to the IRS.  Am kindly requesting expert inputs if my entries in the Form 843 Lines 1- 7 are correct, and would appreciate kind inputs on Line 8 (reason for abatement) for better chance of the IRS approving my request for abatement.    Last question - I hope the IRS would not raise the interest on my penalty amount due to my non-payment of penalty while I wait for its response to my Form 483 request?     Really appreciate your thoughtful inputs in advance.       Image 1:  IRS Online shows Penalty    Image 2 - IRS Website Notice and Letters showing no notices (no IRS mail received)          Image 3: FORM 843 (with details filled out)    

Everything was fine. It showed a generous refund and then in the review process, it asked me weird questions and was showing coding from the website. How do I fix this and get my refund back and to actually show on my income is correctly?