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Yes. As long as your daughter is a full-time student, under age 24, and does not provide more than half of her own support, you can claim her as a dependent on your tax return. Scholarships do not count as support.   Here is a TurboTax article about who can be claimed as a dependent: Who can I claim as my dependent?  

VolvoGirl gave you your answer: Generally, most taxpayers will avoid this penalty if they owe less than $1,000 in tax after subtracting their withholdings and credits, or if they paid at least 90% of the tax for the current year, or 100% of the tax shown on the return for the prior year, whichever is smaller.   So it does not matter if you suddenly stopped making estimated tax payments, so long as you owe less at the end of the year than $1,000 or have paid at least 90% of the current year tax or 100% of the previous year's tax.   There is no penalty for stopping paying estimated taxes, but only for underpaying your taxes through the year.   If this still does not make sense, please see Estimated Taxes at the IRS website.

You should track your refund directly from the IRS and/or Department of Revenue’s Website.   To track your Federal Refund  Where's my Refund   To track your State Refund  How do I track my state's refund?  

Did you e-file?   Did you go through all three steps of the FILE section and click a big orange button that said “Transmit my returns now?”     When you e-file your return you will get two emails from TurboTax.  The first one will say your return has been transmitted; the second one will tell you the IRS has accepted  or rejected your federal e-file.  If you filed a state return, there will be a third email (usually a day or two later) that tells you if the state e-file was accepted or rejected.   Check your e-file status:   https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/efile-status-lookup/    What does it say in your account?  Does it show that the return was accepted?   Or does it say something else---like "rejected," "printed," or "ready to mail?”     If the return was accepted---   Sometimes people get confused by the “summary” given by TurboTax and use the wrong amount for the federal refund.  Make sure you are only using the federal refund amount, and not an amount that combined your federal and state refunds.     Your federal refund amount is on line 35a of your Form 1040   https://www.irs.gov/refunds  

Thank you for the reply.  I had gone ahead and listed Georgia (where I live), and then lumped everything else into "Multiple Other States."  After seeing your message, I went back and amended the return, separating out American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.  Interestingly, it didn't change the return at all, so I didn't file the amended return.  

When you prepared 2025 did you use the same account and user ID that you used for 2024?   If you use the same account and user ID consistently then your information transfers from one year to the next.   If you do not use the same account and user ID, the software cannot/does not pull information from returns prepared using a different account.

If your tax return was rejected because someone else claimed your dependent, you cannot fix this right away because the IRS system already has the dependent’s information.   First, I suggest you make sure your dependent meets all the IRS criteria to be claimed by you. These include: Relationship (Be your son, daughter, or other). Age (be under 19 or under 24 if a full-time student). Residency (If they live with you for more than half the year), support (Get more than half their financial support from you).   Open here General rules for dependents to see more IRS qualifications.    If you are sure you are the one entitled to claim the dependent, you will need to file your return by mail. Sign in to your TurboTax account, go to the My Info section, select Edit next to the dependent, and make sure their Social Security Number is correct. Proceed to the File section. When asked how you want to file, select File by Mail instead of E-file. Print, sign, and mail your tax return. You must also attach your documents, such as W-2s, 1099s, and any other documents. Open the link below, to see more details. How do I fix e-file reject IND-507-01?   Also, see the following link to learn how to handle when someone else claims your dependent: What if somebody already claimed my dependent?  

So, do you agree that it is a bug with TurboTax? Should it not be reported and fixed? You guarantee accurate returns with maximum refund, and this bug generates a wrong return/ excess tax payments (SE tax) with truthful answers. This is sheer violation of all those guarantees! There may be so many who didn't pay attention to the silently generated Schedule C and the wrongful, excess tax payments. Are you waiting for a class action?

You can enter the sale in either the K-1 entry section or the investment sales section, but not both. Since it appears you have a Form 1099-B it would be best to report the sale in the investment section and not in the K-1 section, as the IRS will scrutinize the 1099-B entry more than the K-1 entry.

USER ERROR WITH SOCIAL SECURITY ENTRY We have seen a lot of people who made a user error with the entry of their SSA1099.   The screen right after you enter the SSA1099 asks you if you lived in certain foreign countries in 2025.   If you skipped past that screen or answered incorrectly, your Social Security was not taxed correctly.   Look at your Form 1040 and see if line 6b was left blank due to that mistake.  The IRS is catching those mistakes and correcting them by reducing your refund or increasing your tax due.   It is really so important to read every screen slowly and carefully from top to bottom as you prepare your tax return to avoid errors.