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What help do you need?   Do you need help with where to enter your various forms of income?   Go to Federal>Wages & Income to enter a W-2.   Did you receive any Social Security?  Go to Federal> Wages & Income>>Retirement Plans and Social Security  (SSA1099 and 1099RRB) to enter your SSA1099.     Did you receive money from a pension or from a retirement account like an IRA or 401k?   To enter your retirement income, Go to  Federal> Wages and Income>Retirement Plans and Social Security>IRA  401 k) Pension Plan Withdrawals to enter your 1099R.       I PAID TAX ON THE RETIREMENT MONEY ALREADY You had tax withheld from the distributions from the retirement account, just like when an employer withheld tax from your paychecks.  When you enter it all into the software, the calculations are done to reconcile the amount of income you received and the amount of tax that was withheld.  You might owe more or you might get a refund.  

Make sure to pay any taxes you may owe still by 4/15.  Turbotax has all the info you need here. https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/internal-revenue-service/file-irs-extension-form-4868-turbotax-online/L2rDBZJtx_US_en_US

@jbofmadison  If the credit does not calculate correctly, use the "Revisit" button in the WI interview to ensure all rent or property tax amounts were entered. Navigate to the WI state return, continue through the interview until you reach "Credits and Taxes" to locate the "School Property Tax Credit" screen. To claim it: You must be a WI resident who paid property tax or rent on your primary residence. You cannot claim this credit if you are claiming the Veterans and Surviving Spouses Property Tax Credit.  If that still does not work: If you are using TT online, Go out of your program, Clear your cache and cookies go back in.  Or try another 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".

To enter, edit or delete New Car Loan Interest - Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home & Business) Click on Deductions and Credits Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown) Scroll down to Cars and Other Things You Own On Car Loan Interest, click on the start or update button

The normal way would be for you, the plan's customer, to contact the plan administrator and just ask them. If you are still employed, you can likely ask your HR department.   I have found that I can find the type of most plans by going to the plan's website and finding the most recent annual report - the type of plan is normally listed in the annual report.

So I'm a little confused. When you say "Take the property out of service" Should I put that I sold it on 1/1/25 instead of the actual sale date of 5/15/25? When I get to the special handling, one of the options is if you converted the property to personal use.  Technically, it just sat there, so I don't think I should say I converted it to personal use. Also, as I go through the special situation questions it asks about Asset Sales Price, Asset Sales Expenses, etc.  I don't see how I get about showing the sale on the Rental Biz section. It won't really let me... If it is in the rental biz section as a sale of my home, I probably shouldn't include it on the personal side as well. The software seems broken. I have legit rental expenses tied to that property from 2024 that I didn't get billed for until 2025, so the biz probably needs to remain intact. It was not converted to personal use as it sat there empty all of 2025. It is not a qualified property, so I probably can't claim property taxes or mortgage interest on this home in 2025 as a rental expense.  I'm not sure I can claim the property tax at all as it wasn't a rental or  a qualified personal use. To do this method, On the personal tab, it's showing the sale date as of 1/1/2025 which doesn't match my closing documents as I sold it on 5/15/25 On the personal side of things, it does, it gets all screwy.  It's asking me if I lived there 24 months out of 60, but if I move the sale date up to the ficticious one, then it isn't true and I can't have that or I lose my giant cap gains exclusion on sale of personal home. Everything just seems to break now.  I'd love to go in and just manually edit the depreciation on the form to 0 as that would solve my problem but it won't let me.  I can't tell where Turbotax is taking my previous year's loss I couldn't take until I sold my home that carried over. It seems to have now disappeared. You try to do any kind of hack to get it to work and everything breaks.  

There is NO reason to answer the question about total IRA value unless you meet one of the two conditions mentioned above. The real problem is that TurboTax has really botched up the way they handle Traditional IRA distributions when you have more than one IRA account, a basis for any of them, required RMDs, or any QCDs. They have not fixed the problem and a good reason to discontinue use of TurboTax.