topic Re: Section 179 in Deductions & credits

Section 179

BT0327 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:51:39 GMT

When I enter the information for my new truck weighing over 6,000 lbs, turbo tax is not prompting me to utilize Section 179 Depreciation and any additional bonus depreciation (up to 60% in 2024). Why is this happening? The truck is used 100% for business.

Re: Section 179

KrisD15 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:55:12 GMT

Is this for a business or rental?

Are you selecting that you materially participate and/or at risk?

Re: Section 179

BT0327 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:18:51 GMT

It is for a business

Re: Section 179

KrisD15 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:27:55 GMT

Are you using TurboTax Home & Business or Self-Employed Online?

The program should give you that option.

please check that you are entering a 2024 placed in service date and purchased new in 2024.

Also, although you are taking actual expenses, be sure to enter your miles.

TurboTax uses this to verify 100% Business use, so enter total Miles and Business miles as the same amount (zero personal miles)

This adjustment may solve the error of no Section 179 offered.

Re: Section 179

BT0327 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:39:08 GMT

I am using Home and Business. Showing I started using in 2024 and purchased in 2024 and 100% of miles are business. It is still not offering section 179.

Re: Section 179

JamesG1 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:28:14 GMT

There are two issues which might be affecting the section 179 deduction on your tax return. Both are discussed in this IRS publication.

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If you are married filing separately, you and your spouse must allocate the dollar limitation for the tax year.

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The total cost you can deduct is limited to your taxable income from the active conduct of a trade or business during the year. You are considered to actively conduct a trade or business only if you meaningfully participate in its management or operations. A mere passive investor is not considered to actively conduct a trade or business.

Re: Section 179

BT0327 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:25:18 GMT

Hi James, thanks for your response. My wife and I are filing jointly and my business is a single member LLC which I actively run. I am still confused why section 179 is not being offered. Do you have any other suggestions?

Re: Section 179

LeticiaF1 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:32:05 GMT

The problem might be how you entered the vehicle on TurboTax:

You need to make sure that the vehicle is entered under vehicle expenses on your Schedule C.
You will need to enter the information about the vehicle.
To calculate the business use percentage, TurboTax will ask for the total mileage and your business mileage.
The next question will ask you to select if you want actual expenses or the standard mileage rate
Continue answering the questions, enter your other vehicle expenses
TurboTax will ask if you purchased this vehicle new, and what the cost was
Then it'll ask you how much you want to deduct. This is where you will indicate if you want to claim the Section 179 and any special depreciation
The last question will once again verify that you want to take the actual expenses instead of the standard mileage rate.

Business Use of Vehicles

See the images below for your refence:

@BT0327

Re: Section 179

BT0327 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:50:50 GMT

Thank you for replying, but the last two screen shots are not being offered to me for some weird reason. I even deleted the vehicle and added it again and still the last two screen shots are not given to me.

Re: Section 179

KrisD15 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:57:16 GMT

Did you first enter the business income and are you showing a business profit?

Re: Section 179

BT0327 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:00:29 GMT

Yes, currently showing a profit of over 100k

Re: Section 179

Vanessa A — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:25:44 GMT

If you are using Home and Business, you can go to forms mode and see what happens when you are making the entries. You should see the vehicle expense worksheet and if you follow that you should be able to make the entries on the worksheet itself without using override.

Re: Section 179

Mike9241 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:54:42 GMT

also look at Form 4562, line 11, business income. Your 179 deduction can not exceed this.

Re: Section 179

Bpex — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:53:41 GMT

Did you figure this out? Currently having the same issue.

Edit: For me no matter what I changed the section 179 would not show up. I had to delete the vehicle and re-add it for it to work. Probably the selections you make the first time make or break it showing up, so if it doesn't work at first maybe try deleting and changing some answers until it shows up.

Re: Section 179

fowlerarch — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:02:47 GMT

I had the same issue with Turbotax miscalculating the percent of business use to lower than 50%. I found the problem was that the months (less than full year) for special allocation in the car and truck expenses worksheet would erroniously adjust the percent of business use. Since section 179 is not based on the amount of time used during the year, a work- around in the worksheet was to adjust the date placed in service at the start of the year.

Re: Section 179

TurboRock — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:01:38 GMT

It took hour to figure out with a supposed tax expert and numerous phone calls. Turbo tax, even with premium, it is not easy to do 179 deduction with bonus depreciation. The software is not intuitive at all.

On your schedule c, you have to add an asset as other and leave the category box empty in order for the 179 workflow to magically appear. This is the worst turbotax experience I had ever had. I can't imagine all the people using turbotax trying to benefit from the latest tax law regarding bonus depreciation. Shame on your turbotax for making such a horrible product. Perhaps the IRS is paying you so people do not benefit from the new tax laws