topic Michigan return .pdf file missing some required federal schedules. in State tax filing

Michigan return .pdf file missing some required federal schedules.

TheMotorCity — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:06:23 GMT

Using TT Home & Bus 2025 desktop, I find that my Michigan return .pdf file is missing some federal schedules, which, as per MI's state 1040 filing instructions (see Table 3, pg 67) are required. For my particular situation, I am required to file Fed & MI State tax hardcopy by mail return, so this matters to me. For my situation, TT does include within the "all forms required for filing" .pdf file: Sched "C", and Form 8829 (and an "Explanation" memo page for line #37), but does NOT include Sched "1" and Sched "3". Of course I easily resolved the issue by adding the missing items to my MI 1040 tax return deck, but it seems that Intuit / TurboTax could easily fix this issue. I vaguely recall that I had this similarly happen last year when using TT Premier desktop. Please fix the issue, or tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.

Re: Michigan return .pdf file missing some required federal schedules.

DavidD66 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:08:00 GMT

I assume your Federal tax return includes Schedules 1 & 3. If that's the case, you're not doing anything wrong.

Re: Michigan return .pdf file missing some required federal schedules.

TheMotorCity — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:38:45 GMT

HI DavidD66: Thank you for your feedback on my post / my question on my observed issue. I failed to mention that yes, my Fed return does include Sched's 1 & 3, so as per Michigan rules, those particular Fed Sched's are required to be included with the MI state filing. As I indicated, easy solution to TT2025 (correction, as I originally wrote 2026) Home & Business failing to include them, I simply added those pages to my hardcopy deck of tax return forms. I don't feel that I am making a mistake by doing that. However, I am wondering if I did something "wrong" within TT2025 Home & Business (desktop version) to complete my Fed & MI state tax returns that drove TT2025 to not include those two Fed Sched's in the MI state filing deck .pdf file? Or, is this simply a TT2025 BUG that Intuit needs to fix?

I do have a hunch it IS a TurboTax software error, and not something I did or did not do (or select) while going through the steps to complete my returns, partly because I recall this same issue happened for me last year as well. But, I ask the Community in case there is something I can do in the software to avoid this.

Re: Michigan return .pdf file missing some required federal schedules.

DaveF1006 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:10:23 GMT

Instead of adding pages to your physical deck, you can force the software to create a PDF that has everything you need.This keeps your digital record complete.

Use "Print Selected Forms":
Go to File > Print.
Instead of selecting "Tax Return for Filing," choose "Specific Forms."
In the list that appears, manually check the boxes for Federal Schedule 1, Federal Schedule 3, and your MI-1040 package.

Save this as a single PDF. This "tricks" the software into bundling them into one file.

Re: Michigan return .pdf file missing some required federal schedules.

TheMotorCity — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:18:39 GMT

HI DaveF1006: Thank you for your response. That is a great suggestion. I will try it out and see where it places the manually-selected forms. It probably won’t place them in the right order that Michigan specifies, but at least the .pdf file will include them for my own e-record.

I think Intuit still needs to fix this issue. They already pull other Federal forms into the Michigan return for filing as Michigan requires, so it seems that it can’t be too difficult to trigger their software to include ALL the specific Fed forms for a given state’s compliance.

Regardless, thanks again for the great suggestion!