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How Taxpayers Can Claim the Expiring 2025 Home Energy Tax Credits: Video Guide

Tax Year 2025 represents a strict deadline for homeowners seeking federal tax credits for home energy-efficient improvements. The passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) accelerated the expiration of most residential energy tax benefits. Ho... read more

Federal Clean Vehicle Tax Credit Ends: 2025 Video Tutorial

Attention taxpayers, if you purchased an electric vehicle (EV) before the September 30, 2025, deadline, you may be eligible to claim the Federal Clean Vehicle Tax Credit. This credit offers a dollar-for-dollar reduction of the taxes you owe. However,... read more

New Tax Deductions & Changes - One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)

Be prepared and plan ahead for differences in your tax refund or balance due - hopefully in a good “more money in your pocket” kind of way! Let’s clear up the confusion about major changes in tax deductions such as no tax on tips, Social Security, an... read more

Maximize Personal Tax Deductions: Itemized vs Standard

If you’re confused as to whether it’s better to take the Standard Deduction or Itemize Deductions on Schedule A, you’re not alone. Personal tax deductions include such things as charitable donations, mortgage interest, property taxes, state income ta... read more

Dependents: Children, Relatives & Others

If you want to get those juicy dependent tax credits and benefits, it’s important to get it right. Getting it wrong can create an IRS mess you don’t want to be a part of - trust me on this one! If the result isn’t in your favor, not only will you lik... read more

Favorite Tax Deductions & Credits for Families!

Everyone knows there are tax benefits to having children and dependents and some are pretty amazing! If you’ve ever had questions about the popular Child Tax Credit (CTC) or Earned Income Credit (EIC), this is the place to be! TurboTax does the think... read more

Tax Deductions Worth Looking Into!

It seems the most popular question at tax time is “Can I deduct this…?”. Of course you don’t want to pay more taxes than you need to; and you want to get all the tax deductions and credits you’re entitled to take. The resources below have helped many... read more

Does anyone know when the section on Home Energy credits will be finalized in TurboTax? I can't input my information there, so I can't complete my return.

This is the second part of the credit. I put most of it on last year's return.

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TT 2025 Desktop missing "Other items donations worksheet"

Greetings, I just noticed that the desktop version of TurboTax Delux 2025 is missing the "Other items donations worksheet"I use this to include all my non-cash items donated. For example, towels, books, and other items donation to various charitable ... read more

When exactly will the Home Energy Credit section be ready so that I can complete my filing?

Donating appreciated stock - Quicken says I might be able to claim higher value

I donated 82 shares of NIC stock to my church. While entering the donation in Turbo Tax, it walks me through all the screens. I entered the value of the donation using the IRS method of average daily price on day it settled. I chose Avg Share Price w... read more

How is interest earned from a foreign bank entered when the online software's Federal Review rejects a 1099-INT without a FEIN )despite Instructions to enter it there)?

... Furthermore, the instructions then alternatively suggest adding the foreign interest as "Other Income" but the link to that seems to default to putting it on a 1099-MISC in our royalties section which seems incorrect (?) to me. Is this really a s... read more

donations disappear

I keep entering my donations, a can get cash donations to stay, but when i enter gift donations, the previous ones disappear. I have the newest edition of premiere, just downloaded it 1/25/2025

When completing the HSA section, it asks for information on monthly hdhp coverage for 2024.... why does it care about 2024 and not 2025 when these are 2025 taxes?

i also noticed that no matter how many times i click "start" and go through the whole process, that the hsa section is labeled with a "not started" tag. Also, the sub-header for the section says "form 5498" which i have, but am never prompted for.