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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

US Form 5695 Residential Energy Credits "Available Soon" yet "Available"?

The form says available according to the TurboTax form availability page. It originally said the Form was due to be available on 1/21/2026. However within the App it still says "Available Soon". Looks like the "Form" is able to be manually filled out... read more

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how do i remove a car purchase off of my tax form?

i need to edit my sales tax deduction to 0 how do i do this?

I have three dependents that live with me. How much refund would I get for each child?

I thought dependents bring $2400 for each one?

529 distributions (earnings) being taxed

I have a 529 for my daughter to pay for her college tuition. I received the 1099-Q from the 529 showing the distribution split between basis and earnings. Which I then used to pay for her tuition. She received a 1098-T from her college showing the pa... read more

Where is the item deduction calculator for donated items that has been part of Turbo tax for many years?

HSA Excess Contribution?

This year, I contributed via paychecks a total of $5370 to my HSA. I contributed an additional $3220 to it for a total of $8590 (barely over the family contribution limit of $8550). Our gross distribution is $9007, and we had a balance of $534 from 2... read more

On one screen TurboTax is telling me that I don't qualify for the home office deduction because the net profit was zero. On another screen it shows profit being over zero

Both can't be true. Net profit was 5 figures so why does TurboTax incorrectly think it was zero?

Tech issue: HSA contribution miscalculating

My 2025 employer and payroll contributions: $4,300 (self-plan)Wife's 2025 employer and payroll contributions: 8,550 (half year self-plan, half year Family plan)TurboTax is still saying we overpaid with excess contribution of $4,300, but it's not taki... read more