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You can only write off gambling losses if you report your gambling winnings - per IRS rules. If you happen to have a bad year, you cannot just deduct your losses without reporting any winnings.
As soon as you enter your gambling winnings in TurboTax, you'll be asked to enter your gambling losses.
The entry in TurboTax is as follows:
Note:
The turbo tax program does not show a gambling loss line entry on schedule A
@Janelle1971 wrote:
The turbo tax program does not show a gambling loss line entry on schedule A
If you entered gambling winnings and gambling losses no more than the winnings, the losses are reported on Schedule A Line 16
Please follow the directions listed in this Turbo Tax link. Here is a summary of that link.
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