topic Needs Review message in Deductions & credits

Needs Review message

papa281 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:49:12 GMT

Needs Review keeps on coming up in Job-Related Expenses and also in Business Income and Expenses. I have gone over the entries a dozen times and everything is correct but I still get the Needs Review Messages under the 2024 column.
Can anyone help with this problem.
Thanks

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Re: Needs Review message

AmyC — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:20:01 GMT

A home office is not deductible on a business unless it has net profit and it can give a review error. Do you have a home office you are claiming for both job and business? Can you see the form and error message? Any more information to help us figure out what the issue could be?

Re: Needs Review message

papa281 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:41:20 GMT

NEEDS REVIEW MESSAGE keeps on coming up under Business Income & Expenses Profit or Loss from Business

NEEDS REVIEW MESSAGE keeps on coming up under Employment Expenses Job-Related Expenses

Went over all entries numerous times and everything was correct but the NEEDS REVIEW MESSAGE keeps coming up. Did the final review and no errors and E-File went through with no problems.

Why is this NEEDS REVIEW MESSAGE keeps coming up?

Started a sample tax return with all of my info except I left out Business income & expense and also left out Employment expense. Even with nothing entered the Needs Review message appeared.

This software glitch is happening to everyone. How can TurboTax correct this?

Re: Needs Review message

LindaS5247 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:38:27 GMT

We appreciate your continued patience. ‌We are aware of this issue and it will be resolved with an update later this week. Please log back in or update your software on Friday, March 7, 2025.

Re: Needs Review message

papa281 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:41:35 GMT

NEEDS REVIEW MESSAGE was corrected for Business Income & Expenses Profit or Loss from Business from on update on 3/6/25

but

NEEDS REVIEW MESSAGE still keeps on coming up under Employment Expenses Job-Related Expenses

so far as of 09:40hrs 3/7/25 no update to correct this one.

Re: Needs Review message

BrittanyS — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:53:07 GMT

Follow these steps provided by TurboTax on how to update your software if the update is not working manually:

How do I manually update my software?

@papa281

Re: Needs Review message

papa281 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:19:16 GMT

Followed the update, download instructions but the needs remove in the job-related expenses still shows up

Re: Needs Review message

MarilynG1 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:33:34 GMT

Delete Form 2106 from your return, then clear your Cache and Cookies.

Here's How to Delete Forms in TurboTax Online.

@papa281

Re: Needs Review message

papa281 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:56:49 GMT

I am using the desk top version of Home & Business. But I tried deleting form 2106 but the Needs Review is still there. I made a sample tax return entering all of my info except I left out Job-Related Expenses. The Needs Review Message was still there on the Step-by-Step..

Re: Needs Review message

MarilynG1 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:51:23 GMT

If you deleted Form 2106 in FORMS mode, the 'Needs Review' should go away. This display does not affect your tax return, though, it's just in TurboTax.

Try clicking UPDATE, then say YES to 'did you have any employment expenses related to W-2 work?', answering NO to the follow-up questions, (and deleting any amounts), until you reach 'It turns out your expenses don't qualify for this deduction'.

Then go back to Deductions & Credits and the 'needs review' should be gone.

Here's more info on Employee Expenses.

@papa281

Re: Needs Review message

papa281 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:15:43 GMT

I did all of that and the Needs Review Message is still there.
I created a sample tax return and did not enter anything in job related expenses and the Needs Review Message showed up.

It’s a software bug that has to be taken care of by the Techs at TurboTax

Re: Needs Review message

BrittanyS — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:47:17 GMT

Can you clarify if the needs review is preventing you from e-filing?

Re: Needs Review message

papa281 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:14:30 GMT

No, E-File with no problem. But it’s just and annoying software Glich that should be corrected.

Re: Needs Review message

4jenns01 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:01:46 GMT

Still getting the error message today after the update was supposed to launch. There are no error messages, when reviewing the form and answering the questions. When doing the end deduction review, it is not showing my total deductions like it does for the previous year. I am worried I am not getting those deductions.

Home office 100% of the time.

Thank you!

Re: Needs Review message

PatriciaV — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:14:03 GMT

As stated previously, the "needs review" tag will not prevent you from filing your return. The SmartCheck process under Federal Review will alert you of anything that needs your attention.

We have forwarded this experience to our development team for further investigation.

@4jenns01

Re: Needs Review message

himechad — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:11:24 GMT

The 'Needs Review' for Jobs-related Expenses is holding my return up. It calculates almost $3k in deductions, from the worksheet, but isn't bringing the figure into the primary return and keeps displaying the 'Needs Review' green lettering. Obviously, a software glitch....is there an ETA for a patch? Thank you for your time, Chad

Re: Needs Review message

papa281 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:30:35 GMT

I and hundreds of others are having the same problem with the Need Review messsge in Job-Related Expenses. But I had no problem E-Filing.

Re: Needs Review message

RachelW33 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:17:50 GMT

I would like to take a deeper look at this. However, I need a diagnostic file which is a copy of your tax return that has all of your personal information removed. You can send one to us by following the directions below:

TurboTax Online:

Sign into your online account.
Locate the Tax Tools on the left-hand side of the screen.
A drop-down will appear. Select Tools
On the pop-up screen, click on “Share my file with agent.”
This will generate a message that a diagnostic file gets sanitized and transmitted to us.
Please provide the Token Number that was generated in the response.

TurboTax Desktop/Download Versions:

Open your return.
Click the Online tab in the black bar across the top of TurboTax and select “Send Tax File to Agent” *
This will generate a message that a diagnostic copy will be created. Click on OK and the tax file will be sanitized and transmitted to us.
Please provide the Token Number (including the dash) that was generated in the response.

*(If using a MAC, go to the menu at the top of the screen, select Help, then, “Send Tax File to Agent”)

@himechad

Re: Needs Review message

courtier — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:10:33 GMT

I just wasted 2.25hours with Intuit customer service going around and around in circles on this exact issue only to be hung up with no further action taken. They kept trying to get me to buy live tax advice and I kept telling them this isn't a tax issue, it's a software/technical issue.

Still waiting for an acknowledgement that this is a software issue and a fix for said issue.

Re: Needs Review message

papa281 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:42:24 GMT

The same Glich was also with Business Income but they did an update and that one was fixed. This one under Job Expenses was supposed to be fixed last week but nothing. You can never get anyone at Turbo Tax who is a software tech to talk to. So frustrating!!!!!