Why do I need Form 8995-A?

Did you receive a K-1 from a partnership or S-Corporation?  That could also trigger the Qualified Business Income (QBI) Credit (Form 8995A).

If not, see if the form appears in your list of forms and delete it.  To do this, please follow these steps:

TurboTax Online

1. While in your return, click on Tax Tools > Tools (in the black bar at the side of your screen).  
2. In the Tools Center, under Other helpful links click on Delete a form.
3. Click Delete next to the form you want to delete and follow the onscreen instructions. 
4. Once you have finished deleting the desired form(s) click the Continue with My Return box (in the lower right of your screen).

TurboTax CD/Download

1. Go into Forms Mode by clicking on the Forms icon in the top right of the blue bar. 
2. In the Forms in My Return list on the left, click on the form you wish to open and delete.
3. Click on the Delete Form box at the bottom of the screen.
4. To return to the interview, click on the Step-By-Step icon in the top right of the blue bar.  

See also this question, which has many people commenting (but no real solution...).

Same issue with TurboTax adding the form back in.  I apparently have a $20 deduction from a REIT in a stock fund.  I'll just wait for the online form to publish.  Thanks for the help.

I'm preparing to file taxes for my deceased mother and when reviewing the forms for filing before I hit send, Form 8995 popped up and produced a WTF moment.  At least I can file since I can use the "Simplified Computation", but having this form titled Qualified Business Income Deduction when she clearly never had a business of any kind is beyond misleading for mutual fund dividends and capital gains.  And the net result is zero anyway.  What a waste.

I'm having the same trouble trying to disaggregate the combined businesses and eliminate schedule B. You spoke of the 1099, how did that solve your problem?

Forms  8995-A is used to calculate your Qualified Business Income Deduction QBID.

I was having a problem with this on my daughter's return. She's a 23-year-old grad student, does not own a business or have business/self-employment income, no 1099-MISCs, does not have interest/dividend/investment income of any kind (because she has no investments and her bank account does not pay interest) so no 1099-DIVs/INTs, no carryforwards, etc. etc. Absolutely nothing on the 8995 was applicable, period. All the fields TT insisted on populating were 0.  Yet every time I told TT to delete the form, it was immediately re-created, and was being included among the forms needed for filing her federal return despite all those 0s .

Eventually I tracked it down to some "QBI worksheet" that TT was referring to, which had no entries at all AFAICT. When I told TT to delete that worksheet, the bogus 8995 disappeared as well. This seems like a bug to me. If the worksheet is empty, the form should not even be generated, let alone included for filing.

Form 8995 means a business. Turbotax automatically used this form. Why?  What I see is that I got a $4413.00 addition to my standard deduction, Line 10 on the 1040, for an additional tax of $2428.00 on line 15, self employment tax.  That's not a deal i want to make.

i dont have a business so where on my return do i need to go to undo whatever i said to qualify for not paying taxes on it.  It wont let me finish without form 8995.  So confused