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If you filed with TurboTax Online, you can get a copy of your 2025 by following the following steps:   Open or continue your return. Select Continue or Start on Tax Home to enter your return. Select Tax Tools from the menu. Select Print Center, choose Print, save, or preview this year's return, and follow the instructions. If you haven't yet paid your TurboTax Online fee (or registered, if you're using a free version), you'll need to do so before you can save the PDF. How do I get a PDF of my return?

Your TurboTax fees are generally not refundable once you have prepared your return and paid for it.  Even if you did not finalize it or e-file it. Your payment is for the use of the software to prepare your tax return. You can contact TurboTax support using this link: Turbo Tax Customer Support to request a refund.

If you paper-file your mother's return, simply attach the signed Form 2848 to the complete return.   If you eFile her return, however, the process is a bit more complicated. You'll eFile the return as normal through TurboTax.  Then, you'll need to send both the signed Form 2848 and the IRS  Form 8453, U.S. Individual Income Tax Transmittal for an IRS e-file Return to the IRS.  On Form 8453, you'll check the second checkbox, for "Form 2848, Power of Attorney and Declaration of Representative."  You should have checked the box in section 5a of the Form 2848 and entered a description to indicate that you have authorization to sign tax returns.   There's no signature requirement on Form 8453. If you are e-filing the tax return, mail Form 8453 to the IRS within 3 business days after you have received acknowledgement from your intermediate service provider (ISP) and/or transmitter that the IRS has accepted your electronically filed tax return. If you don’t receive an acknowledgement, you must contact your intermediate service provider and/or transmitter.    Mail Form 8453 to: Internal Revenue Service Attn: Shipping and Receiving, 0254 Receipt and Control Branch Austin, TX 73344-0254   See this TurboTax tips article for more information about using Form 2848.   To e-file a California return with a Power of Attorney (POA), submit Form FTB 3520-PIT via your MyFTB account to link your account, then use authorized tax software to e-file. The POA allows signing only if the taxpayer is incapacitated or continuously absent from the U.S.    

I agree. What they are doing makes absolutely no sense. To do correctly, you need an estimate of what is currently planned to be withheld. The vouchers should fill the gap between what you want the total to be (100% of 2026 taxes, 110% of 2025 taxes, etc.) and what is already planned. Thanks for confirming my recollection that they used to do this correctly! 

Je viens de faire votre scénario et il y a seulement le montant  5 175.00 à la ligne 107 provinciale.  Vous avez probablement entré 2 RL-1 par accident.    En entrant le T4A case 107, le montant est transféré dans le Relevé 1 automatiquement. Cliquez sur Revenus - T4A/Relevé 1-Relevé 2 dans le menu de gauche. Regardez combien de Relevé 1 il y a. Vous pouvez supprimer celui de surplus.         Merci de choisir TurboImpôt

This Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) page has information on who is eligible to use NETFILE: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/taxes/income-tax/personal-income-tax/how-file/tax-software/send-return/netfile.html   If you are still not able to resolve this issue, please contact our phone support team for more assistance.   

Not sure what the question is.  IRS form W-2 box 12 code M reports uncollected Social Security or RRTA tax on group term life insurance.   This amount represents the employee part of Social Security and Medicare taxes on the taxable cost of group-term life insurance over $50,000.   The amount is reported on Schedule 2 Additional Taxes Part II line 13. 

thank you all for your replies. good info to have. at this point, i'm wanting "easy", so will live with the penalty & just try to do better this year. i didn't realize i had to make 4 payments, one for each quarter of the year. i thought if i just paid some, that that would take care of the penalty for nonpayment. 

You can claim the 30% Residential Clean Energy Credit for solar systems on both your main home and a second home. Both homes must be in the U.S. and used as residences (you must live in the second home for part of the year, not just rent it out. To enter them you can enter the full amount of your expenses for one address.   You can get to these screens in your TurboTax program using the steps listed below:   Click on Search in the top right of your TurboTax screen Type residential energy credit in the search box Click on the link Jump to residential energy credit This will take you to the input screen in TurboTax to enter your information regarding your solar panels. Your screen will say Energy Efficient home improvements Answer Yes to I made these energy-efficient improvements or have a carryforward and click on Continue Answer Yes to my home is in the U.S. and Continue through your TurboTax screens  On the screen that says Did you have any of these residential-related clean energy costs in 2025? Answer Yes and Continue (Solar Electric Property) On the screen that says Enter your Residential Clean Energy improvements. Enter your total cost under  solar electric costs   On the next screen you will confirm your address and Continue Continue through the rest of the TurboTax followup questions    Click here for Where do I enter qualified energy-saving improvements? Click here for Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit Click here for 2024-2025 Energy Tax Credit: Which Home Improvements Qualify?   Please return to Community if you have any additional information or questions and we would be happy to help.

@georgep4055    If your 1040 line 15 "taxable" income is less than 100,000? .....IF that is the case, then the tax tables are used.....and that table works in $11-12 increments for the high end of taxable income......and $6 jumps at lower levels  (or even less) For instance, if line 15 is between 99,000 and 99,050...the tax for MFJ is $11,614....but if you go $1 over to 99,051 on line 15, then the tax jumps $11.   Of course, the tax table isn't always used by itself...since other factors like Cap gains a Qualified dividends as a part of line 15, that can make the tax somewhat lower. __________________ I don't see it as being too out of bounds, especially if you add another $20 to that interest, and the tax doesn't increase any. _________________ If you do have other income from 1099-DIV forms, or 1099-B capital gains, then the IRS Tax Tables are not used by themselves, and the only way to see how the tax was calculated would be to find/print the tax calculations worksheets.  (the Qualified Dividends and Cap Gain Tax worksheet is most common...but it depends on exactly where all your sources of income comes from )  

For all the RMDs in the list that begins ""I inherited this IRA" I checked "None of these apply".   TurboTax has now accepted the entry for the 'Funds' company RMD. It's still saying "Needs Review" for four other RMD companies. The software lands on "Who did Spouse inherit this IRA from?" and there are only two choices, both meaning that someone died (the spouse or someone else).  

Good suggestion!  I went back and selected 8d (PWA not applicable), and that then gave me the 6% credit.  So I overrode that and entered 30%, and then yes, it passed SmartCheck and allows me to e-file.  Given that my project started prior to 2025, the corrected instructions clearly state that it is eligible for 30% as long as I have a limited exception to PWA (which I do--less than 1MW).  So I feel comfortable in overriding the 6% to 30%.  I think that's the logic that TT is working on, but if they don't have it by 4/14, then I believe this is a method that can be used (assuming you have sufficient justification from the new instructions to claim the 30%).  Thanks for trying it and letting us know!