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Amortization is calculated but not included as a deduction on a GP - 1065 for rental activity

WillingtoExtend — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:17:58 GMT

10th year business and first year using turbotax for this business. I have entered in the intangibles as prompted, confirming their prior amortization and CY amortization expense. Looks good there. Moving on from that section, Turbotax is not picking up the total amortization expense for Schedule K. When I go in to manually add it as 'other deduction' within the rental activity section, there is not an other option on the step by step. I go to forms and there is an "other deductions" line but it will not update the overall calculation and I do not balance by the amortization amount. This is a little detail that is a huge pain. If you have rental activity, using turbotax business desktop, and amortization... I do not see a solution unless the software updates.

Please help

Re: Amortization is calculated but not included as a deduction on a GP - 1065 for rental activity

Margie-TF — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:35:23 GMT

I came to the forum looking for a way to report this as a bug to Turbotax, but can't find a way to do it. In previous years the amortization was automatically added into the "other" line in the expense list. But this year the IRS added the Form 8825 Schedule A to feed into that line. On the IRS form, there is still a line for "other" on the Schedule A, but Turbotax does not include this line or have any way to enter any expenses that do not fit one of the predefined categories. Amortization does not have a defined line on the new IRS form, and Turbotax has not created a way to add anything to the "other" expense line on the schedule A, so it seems to just disregard the amortization. This is a mistake in the software and needs to be corrected, but I can't find any way to submit the bug to Intuit for review.

Re: Amortization is calculated but not included as a deduction on a GP - 1065 for rental activity

WillingtoExtend — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:39:02 GMT

Thank you for understanding! I have no idea how to submit bugs to TurboTax, but I would think there are plenty of amortized costs in Real Estate activities that need to be reported.... We will see!