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The self-employed health insurance payments must be entered under Other business expenses under your business.  Only the amount, if any, of insurance premiums paid in excess of the amount deductible as a self-employed health insurance deduction is to be entered under Deductions & Credits for inclusion on Schedule A.  Of course if you are using the standard deduction, there is no need to enter any of these payments under Deductions & Credits.

Federal and state refunds come from completely separate entities,  There is no rule as to which one will come first or how much time there will be between their arrivals.  Some states process returns quickly and some are very slow.   STATE RETURN Make sure your state return was accepted:  https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/efile-status-lookup/   To track your state refund:       ttps://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/track-state-refund/L3jgO8PGs_US_en_US?uid=lt447ebr https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/state-taxes/contact-state-department-revenue/L9qVToi02_US_en_US?uid=m6e06um0

If your job is not listed on the list of qualified jobs published by the Treasury Department (Occupations That Customarily and Regularly Received Tips on or Before December 31, 2024), then you will not be able to exclude your tips from income for 2025.  I am not aware of any loophole to get around the list of qualified jobs.   To learn more, see the following TurboTax help article:   What is the new tax law for tips?  

If you are itemizing deductions you can enter out of pocket Medicare premiums as a medical expense.     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)    

OK, NO BUG.. CoPilot is wrong.. Not to all Artificial Intelligence is not always intelligent. So be weary what it tells you. QMID code applies to the manufacturer and not the product like the AI was insisting on.. Went to Rebate.blue and found the code for my company that installed doors and windows. 

You likely didn't do anything wrong, you’re probably seeing the direct impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). While the standard deduction remains high, the OBBBA significantly raised the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction cap from $10,000 to $40,000 for the 2025 and 2026 tax years.    It is possible your combined state income taxes and property taxes (which were previously capped at $10k) are now fully deductible up to that much higher limit, and your total itemized deductions may have surpassed the standard deduction threshold.   You can review your return summary to see if your itemized deductions total more than the standard deduction, which is $15,750 for singles or $31,500 for married couples.  You can check this in TurboTax Online by navigating to Tax Tools on the left of your screen, choose Tools, then View Tax Summary.

If you are an employee who receives a W-2, your employer reduces the amount of wages in box 1 by the amount of your traditional SIMPLE elective deferrals.  It does not get subtracted from income a second time on your tax return.  So yes, deferring income to the SIMPLE plan reduces current year taxable income.  (Roth SIMPLE contributions do not reduce taxable income.)   If you are self-employed and make SIMPLE IRA contributions that are deductible on Schedule 1 as a self-employee retirement deduction, this does reduce AGI.

@MarilynG1 I did indeed start my a return online. I imported my 2024 desktop tax file and then added the new 2025 information including the latest W-2, other investment 1099s and the crypto .csv files.   After reading your reply, I cleared the online return, deleted all of the previously uploaded files, made sure TT Desktop was closed, and proceeded to start over online. TT Online still retained a bunch of my household/personal info, and some info from my 2024 return, from my Intuit account I guess. I couldn't find a way to prevent pulling 2024 information in. I then proceeded to skip adding a W-2 to the other investment income section and upload my .csv files. Nothing showed up in the investment income section even after uploading those files. It's still looks like this even after uploading my .csv files: In the Tools pop up I still do not have a download tax file option. I then wondered if TT is expecting a W-2 before it gives the option to download the tax file. I proceed to enter that information, so now all I have is a W-2 and the crypto .csv files. Still no download option.   The income summary doesn't reflect any information for the investments and savings row despite uploading a couple of .csv files: I then deleted the .csv files, uploaded some other traditional investment 1099s, check to see if can download the tax file. Still not here. Additionally, after trying to upload a .csv once more, TT Online still doesn't display anything from it, so the data from the file isn't being accounted for at all in the Income screen.    I'm truly at a loss, having sunk 3.5 hours into this online workaround plus the many hours spent originally trying to file in the desktop software and looking through forums.

@tglauner Using Add a state does not automatically start an amended return.   To access your current or prior year online tax returns sign onto the TurboTax website with the User ID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/   When you sign onto your online account and land on the Tax Home web page, scroll down and click on Add a state.  This will take you back to the 2025 online tax return.  Click on any of the links on the left side of the online program screen to access any section of the tax return to make corrections.  Then click on File to either e-file or print the return for mailing.