Can I defer using my carryover capital gains loss? Even though I have no tax liability, Turbo Tax has applied my capital loss and I am getting no benefit from the loss .

[VolvoGirl]

No you can't skip a  year. But if you have a negative AGI or negative taxable income it will show up on 1040 BUT it won't reduce the carryover to the next year.  So it all might carryover to 2025.

Schedule D doesn't actually show the carryover amount. To find your Capital Loss Carryover amount you need to look at your return schedule D page 2. Line 16 will be your total loss and line 21 should be a max loss of 3,000. The difference between line 16 and 21 is the carryover loss.

In the Online version you have to save your return with all the worksheet as a pdf file to your computer to see the Capital Loss carry over worksheet. There might be 2. There is a Capital Loss Carryover Worksheet showing the carryover from the prior year and the current amounts. Then there is also the Capital Loss Carry Forward worksheet showing the amount transferring over to next year.

[DoninGA]

No.  The carryover has to be used each tax year until it has been used up.  You cannot pick and choose which tax year the capital loss can be carried over.