You will not be able to file for free.  Go to search and type "jump to nol" and turbo tax will automatically tell you to upgrade to Premier.   There you can manually enter any NOL amounts. ... View more

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WRONG!!    The solution is the very last comment where a picture is shown of Home and Business. ... View more

And yes this is ALL about when the numbers are within 300. ... View more

You may think you're changing your deduction method, but you are not.   In order to see the error just print it out and look on the paper return.   It says "Standardized"  no matter what you do in the program.      IT IS A BUG IN THE PROGRAM.   THE FIX IS ABOVE IN MY ORIGINAL POST.   I suspect millions of people have filed as Standardized when they thought they were filing Itemized.  For me it meant the difference of 1250 bucks in my pocket! ... View more

I assume that this is the first and only consequence of ignoring your student loans. Consider yourself lucky.   If you own a house, they'll take that too before you can sell it.   Here's most likely your fix:  What you want to do is lessen the amount of taxes taken out of your paycheck .      You can fill out another W-4 which tells your employer how much you want taken for taxes instead of the usual claim.   There is a box on the form for you to write in the number.     You can figure out that number by looking at prior returns and come up with a best guess.   Just know that if you are short, you will owe and whatever you are over they will take.   You're goal is to zero out or at least  make it so what the federal government does take is minimal.  Remember we are under a "pay as you go" tax system.  But how much we ACTUALLY owe isn't computed until the END of the tax year, so we "pay an overestimated amount as we go" through our paychecks so that the federal government is sure to get their take and any amount overpaid, is what a "tax refund" is.   It is NOT a gift or a break it is simply as a result of the government taking more than their fair share of our hard earned money FIRST before it ever gets in our hands.     Self-employed folks are expected to pay "estimated taxes" 4 times a year with a penalty applied at the end of the year for not doing so - basically a penalty for not "paying as you go."   The government doesn't trust us to pay them at the end of the year, they want to be paid as we make it.     Nice how this works, huh?   The American people are extremely ignorant as to how the government takes advantage of them and since we are not taught about taxes or the stock market or about investments in school, it is very very easy to keep on doing this charade.   Still just be glad we don't live in a country where they can put you in jail for not paying a student loan.    ... View more

Right, now tell Turbo Tax that. ... View more