Why does turbotax tell me there cannot be a number more than zero in blank 11 of my traditional IRA worksheet when I will contribute to my traditional IRA.

[colin_mccrossin]

I split the 8000 contribution this year between my traditional and roth ira because I was over the tincome threshold to make the entire contribution to the Roth. Turbotax isn't taking my traditional contribution as an answer and won't let me proceed.

[ReneV4]

TurboTax is alerting you that you are not allowed a deduction because it needs additional input so that it understands that you are not attempting to take a deduction. In order to split your contribution, you will need to go back to the Deductions & credits section to answer the prompts so that TurboTax recognizes this as a non-deductible contribution.

1. Go to Deductions & Credits and select Traditional and Roth IRA Contributions
2. Select both boxes in the Tell us about your IRAs screen, Continue
3. Did you contribute to a Traditional IRA? Yes and Continue
4. In the Total 2025 traditional IRA contributions, enter $4,000
5. Did you recharacterize? No and Continue
6. Did you contribute more to this Traditional IRA than was allowed in 2024? No (if you did not), Continue
7. Did you have any nondeductible IRA contributions to your traditional IRA from 2024 or prior years? No (if you did not), Continue
8. Enter value of your Traditional IRA as of December 31, 2025, Continue
9. Next, you will see the Roth question, Was the contribution a repayment of money you previously took out of a retirement plan? No, Continue
10. Enter your Roth contribution amount, Continue
11. How much of the Roth IRA did you recharacterize? Zero (0), Continue
12. Next you will be asked questions about your Roth to track basis (select your choice), Continue
13. Did you contribute more to a Roth IRA than was allowed in 2024 or any previous year? No (if you did not), Continue
14. Excess to credit to current year Roth IRA, Enter zero (0), Continue
15. Enter value of Roth on December 31, Continue
16. You had traditional excess contributions of $. In the box, enter zero (0), Continue
17. You had Roth excess contributions of $, enter zero (0), Continue
18. You have deductible traditional IRA contributions of $. In this box, you will enter the $4,000 to elect as non-deductible
19. Next, you will see, Based on what you told us, you don't qualify for an IRA deduction and Form 8606 will populate

[colin_mccrossin]

Thanks I figured out what the problem was.  when the software asked me how much my traditional IRA contribution was I entered nothing because there was a second blank below it asking how much of it I contributed during this year for 2025.  I will make the entire contribution this year so I only entered an amount in the second blank.  I should have entered the whole amount in both the first blank and the second blank then the software would have had a total from the first which has to be greater than or equal to the amount I contributed this year.  as I did it originally there was only an amount in box 11 for this year and a zero total in other blanks which is why it was flagged and the software told me I can't have a positive amount in box 11.