Turbotax 2025 deluxe destop What-if worksheet Senior Deduction

[Sherry B]

Why doesn't the senior deduction calculate or deduct in the 2025 What-if worksheet?  It works fine if using the What-if worksheet in 2024 Turbotax Deluxe and selecting use 2025 rates.  

It shows $12,000 in all columns in the 2025 version but doesn't calculate the reduced amount and the taxable income is not reduced even for the $12,000.

And Yes,  the right ages and so on are entered correctly.

Sherene

[xmasbaby0]

The $6,000 senior deduction will be calculated on 1040 Schedule 1-A page 2 Part V Enhanced Deduction for Seniors which goes to 1040 line 13b. It is separate and in addition to the Standard Deduction or your Itemized Deductions on 1040 line 12e.  Turbol Tax automatically includes it.

IRS Schedule 1-A
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-dft/f1040s1a--dft.pdf

[VolvoGirl]

Besides the What-If worksheet you can just start a new return to test in.  The Desktop program can do unlimited returns.  Go up to File-New and it will first save your current return.  I have many test returns to help answering questions on mine.  

Here’s an earlier post about the 2025 What-If worksheet not calculating the new Senior Deduction right

TT2025 What-If not applying the new Senior Deduction

[Sherry B]

Thanks.  Good suggestion.  Meantime I can use the 2024 worksheet with 2025 rates as it is working fine.  It's just annoying not to be able to use the 2025.  Hopefully, once the actual forms are released they'll fix it.  🙂

Sherry

[Sherry B]

Yes, that is true.  My complaint was that the 2025 What-if worksheet isn't calculating the deduction, even though the 2024 version does.  To get an accurate What-if scenario would require doing that calculation manually or entering all the actual tax return info (or a dummy one, which was also a good suggestion).   No biggie, just a little odd since 2024 version works.