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All of this happened right after I installed the latest update. There clearly is a coding issue with turbotax business. And unable to efile was not the only bug in this update. There was a message that popped up that said i have used all my efiles, which was flat out not true. And also a problem with special depreciation deduction (new law in the big beautiful bill) which looks a lot like 179 depreciation deduction. In this case, the interview instructed that a new asset placed in service in 2025 was eligible for special depreciation, so i took it. But in the federal final review, the interview gave an error that the asset was not eligible. After looking at the IRS details/instructions, the asset was 100% eligible for the special depreciation, and hence the review was 100% wrong. But i could not file my business taxes until this was resolved. In my desire to finalize the business taxes, i removed the special depreciation (took normal 7 yr for the asset) to allow me to file. But of course error code 54 showed up.
I too have this problem filing my federal return with Turbo Tax Business 2025.
It’s curious that we must post to a topic that started in 2024, rather than the one that was opened for 2025 that I now am not allowed to access. That thread has link:
This morning I was able to access this link and was encouraged because the last post was by a Turbotax employee saying that he/she was reviewing log information that was submitted by 2 or more people experiencing this problem. But now when I click on that link I'm told I don't have permission to access it.
Validation Error Code 54 should be fixed now. Please update your software and try again. Thank you!
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