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Using the TurboTax desktop editions you can complete and file as many tax returns as needed from just one desktop installation. To start another tax return, Click on File at the top left of the desktop program screen.  Then click on New Tax Return

Depending on what city the taxes should have been paid to, you may see an option when you prepare your state tax return in TurboTax to indicate that you lived or worked in that city. If so, you can prepare that tax return and pay the tax due when you file your state tax return in TurboTax. If you don't see an option in TurboTax to do that, you can look up the city revenue department online and likely find a tax return you can prepare and mail with a tax payment.    For the city the taxes were taken out from, you will need to find their revenue department online and download their city tax return so you can prepare it to get a refund of the taxes paid to them.        

I having strange import problems haven't nailed the problem down yet.  Looks like in imported Schwab pretty good but then said review.  I clicked review and it wanted to import again.  So I didn't saved closed opened and then clicked review and it went to the review screen.  Then it said to review a redundant entry with 0 in it but I only imported once.  It seems to be really losing its mind.  Never had issues like this before.  

I'm still having the same problem with TurboTax not printing the Utah TC-40 form, only blank pages. I tried both Edge and Chrome. I can see the populated form, just not print it.  This defect makes me nervous about e-filing as well as blank data will not fulfill my tax filing obligations.  I may just move to other methods, such as hand filling out the state forms with the data.  I'm shocked with this defect in TurboTax and have reported it.

To enter, edit or delete estimated taxes paid (Federal, State, Local) - Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home and Business) Click on Deductions and Credits Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown) Scroll down to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid On Estimated Tax Payments, click on the start or update button   On State estimated taxes for 2025, click on the start button

Are you able to manually check 'No' on Line 25a of Form 5695?  With the update, you may want to step through the energy credit interview again.  My test return does have it checked on the 5695.   @Serranopr 

In order to get to view all of those calculations you really need to be using the desktop version of TurboTax.  You can switch from the online version to the desktop version pretty easily.  Here are instructions on how to do it.

Married.  Married filing Separately.  Spouse can be claimed as a dependent on someone else's taxes.  That is our status.  Are you telling me that under that circumstance box 12a for "Your spouse as a dependent" is irrelevant?  Thanks.

Thank you. Creating a second "dummy" 1099-DIV does work, but it also results in two lines on the federal Schedule B, neither of which matches the amount on the 1099-DIV that the IRS received. (The total is correct, of course.) Does that not increase the risk of getting flagged?

As the car was nine years old at the time you bought it, it was heavily depreciated at the time you bought it and likely didn't lose a lot of value from the date you bought it in 2022 to when your first started to use it for business in March of 2023.  Because of this, you could just use the purchase price of the vehicle when you bought it as the fair market value for when you first started using it for business.

To calculate estimated taxes and prepare Form 1040-ES:   Log into TurboTax Under Federal Deductions & Credits, Scroll to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid section, and  Select Start or Revisit next to Estimated Tax Payments.

This was very likely caused by an update after 2/28/2026 because my fed review turned up NO errors UNTIL i received a late k-1 loss and went back to see if my tax would decrease.  The fed review then brought me to the Person On The Return" worksheet and Enrollmentstatus must be entered".   The Stoopid part is the error is on the form is for YOUR RECORDS ONLY!  Cmon Intuit, test your software updates before distributing!!  Customer service cant fix the program so hope and pray the feedback gets to a programmer somehow...

If you're filing as Married Filing Separately, it doesn't matter tax-wise if your Spouse is claimed by someone else, so TurboTax may have not checked that box for you.  If this doesn't apply to you, let us know and we'll try to help.   @swissmann 

Your taxable social security benefits cannot be more than 85% of your total social security benefits. The total social security benefits from 2024 are listed on line B of the worksheet. Line D list the taxable benefits associated with the amount on line B. You must have $0 in line B, so 85% of $0 equals $0. You need to list an amount in box B for the social security benefits from 2024.

Is my face red! Sorry everyone. After doing more digging I determined that the supposed error is not an error at all.  The difference I was seeing was due to how, on one of the 1099Rs, the Simplified  Method calculates Line 14, Taxable Pension for the year. That amount is slightly smaller than the amount appearing in Box 2a of the 1099R. I apologize for any confusion I may have  caused.