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MEDICAL EXPENSES The medical expense deduction has to meet a rather large threshold before it can affect your return. The amount of medical (including dental, vision, etc.)  expenses that will count toward itemization is the amount that is OVER 7.5% of your adjusted gross income. You should only enter the amount that you paid in 2025—do not include any amounts that were covered by insurance or that are still outstanding.  Of course, your medical expenses plus your other itemized deductions still have to exceed your standard deduction before you will see a difference in your tax due or refund.   To enter your medical expenses go to Federal>Deductions and Credits>Medical>Medical Expenses       2025 STANDARD DEDUCTION AMOUNTS SINGLE $15,750  (65 or older/legally blind + $2000) MARRIED FILING SEPARATELY $15,750  (65 or older/legally blind +1600) MARRIED FILING JOINTLY $31,500  (65 or older/legally blind + $1600) HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD $23,625 (65 or older/legally blind + $2000)  

Health care insurance premiums, including dental and vision insurance premiums, and other medical expenses that you paid with out of pocket funds and were not reimbursed are an eligible medical expense that you can deduct using Schedule A for itemized deductions. However, only your total medical expenses that are greater than 7.5% of your Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) can be deducted. Your total itemized deductions reported on Form 1040 Schedule A must be greater than the standard deduction for your filing status to have any tax benefit. Standard deductions for 2025 Single - $15.750 add $2,000 if age 65 or older Married Filing Separately - $15,750 add $1,600 if age 65 or older Married Filing Jointly - $31,500 add $1,600 for each spouse age 65 or older Head of Household - $23,625 add $2,000 if age 65 or older To enter your medical expenses - 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 Medical On Medical Expenses, click the start or update button

When you use online TurboTax software you get one return per fee.   Each return needs its own email, account and user ID.   If you use the same account and user ID for a second return, the second one overwrites the first return and it is lost forever.     https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/using-turbotax/help/how-do-i-start-another-return-in-turbotax-online/00/25596 https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/online/file-your-own-taxes/

If your total income from Rental Real Estate and other passive entities is zero, your NYS non-resident return should not report any income from these sources. TurboTax will transfer this information automatically when you begin your state income tax return.

Do NOT clear  your return!  Or it will be gone forever.   Sorry Online is only good for 1 return per account. And you need a different email address for each account. You can start another return in TurboTax Online by: Logging out if you are in your account Choose what TurboTax Online product you want to use for the second return https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/compare/online Create your account screen Set up a new login for the second return Start working on the new return Or use the Desktop program. The Desktop program can do unlimited returns and efile 5 for free. And you can use any Desktop version, they all have the same forms. So you could use a lower version than you might need in the Online version.

Your capital improvements should have been entered as separate assets for the tax year you made the improvements.  Those assets, as part of the rental property should also have been depreciated.  You do NOT just add them to your cost basis.  When you calculate the gain (assuming you have a gain) on the sale, you have to calculate depreciation recapture for all the depreciation taken, or eligible to be taken.  That means you have to include the depreciation you could have/should have taken on the capital improvements, even though you didn't deduct it as an expense in previous years.   There is a work around for this. You can file Form 3115, Application for Change in Accounting Method and take all the missed the depreciation on your current year return.  While you can file Form 3115 with TurboTax, it's not a simple form.  For more information see the following IRS website:   About Form 3115, Application for Change in Accounting Method    As for the land value, you should have added that when you initially set up the rental property.  If you did not allocate a portion of your cost basis to the land when you set it up, you will need to adjust your original cost basis and depreciation via the Form 3115.  The typical way to allocate costs and sales proceeds between the structure and the land by using the ratio of land to improvements on your property tax bill.  You then take that ratio and apply to the actual cost and do the same for the sales proceeds.  You would use the property tax information for 2001 for the cost allocation and the 2025 bill for the sales allocation.     You will report the 2025 rental income and expenses the same way you would in a full year rental.   If it was me, I would file an amended return for 2024 with Form 3115 and get everything set up correctly with the correct accumulated depreciation amounts.  Then I would file 2025.  That would require filing an extension for 2025.  You wouldn't want to file 2025 until you had confirmation that the IRS had accepted your changes on the amended return.  

Your capital gains to not apply to the nonresident Oklahoma income tax return.   In TurboTax, in the Oklahoma state income tax return, at the screen Summary of Oklahoma Capital Gains and Losses, press Edit to the right of the gain.   The next screen will read Oklahoma Capital Asset Location and Type for each sale. Check the box "This property does not qualify for exclusion".  The software should report your Oklahoma gain as zero.    

I am having the same issue with turbotax desktop 2025.   When using the preview window, the pages are blank for the 1040-X.  Selecting the 1040-X via pdf's the table of contents brings me to blank pages.

To print or save a PDF of your TurboTax Online return,  Sign in to TurboTax You must pay all TurboTax fees prior to printing In the left sidebar select Tax Tools Print Center  Choose "Print, save, or preview this year's return"  This will give you a PDF.