Frequently asked questions
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- How do I figure out my car expenses for charitable contributions?
- What are the costs for keeping up a home?
- What if my qualified child isn't my dependent?
- What are other things I should consider when choosing a filing status?
- Can filing as Married Filing Separately give me a bigger refund?
- Who is a qualifying child for dependent purposes?
- What betterment projects qualify for the CDAA Credit ?
- Where do I find my approved 2025 CDAA Credit amount?
- Will my federal refund or federal amount due change as I enter information?
- How can I cancel a Rhode Island direct debit payment?
- What if I don't have access to my email?
- How do I file my 2023 tax return? 2023 tax return
- How do I file my 2022 tax return?
- How do I print my 2024 tax return? print 2024 tax return print 2024 print 2024 print 2024 print 2024 tax return prior year prior year 2024 2024
- What is my adopted child's relationship to me?
- What counts as living expenses for dependents?
- What is a relative for purposes of determining if the child is a Qualifying Child?
- If both parents live together, but aren't married or aren't filing a joint tax return, which parent claims the dependent on their tax return?
- What are the requirements for a noncustodial parent to claim a child as a dependent?
- How do I download Google Authenticator?
- What phone number should I use?
- What health insurance premiums can I deduct?
- What is the payer name?
- Why do you need my Social Security number?
- What if I don't have access to my phone?
- Education Credits
- How do I count the months that my dependent lived with me?
- How can I protect myself from phishing emails?
- How can I create a data security plan?
- What are some ways that I can protect client data?
- How do I report data theft to the IRS?
- How do I stay connected to the IRS?
- Why is my account locked?
- Where is my refund?
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- We support free 1099 filing
- How to find your Prior Year AGI
- How do I file a prior year tax return?
- E-File your extension for free
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- I forgot my email address and can't get into my account
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- Is FreeTaxUSA a legitimate site?
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- I want to start over
- Form 3922
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- Schedule E Information
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- Is hazard insurance deductible?
- CRP Income
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- Is homeowner's insurance deductible?
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- Homestead credit
- I need tax return information to fill out my FAFSA student aid form
- Can I use multiple bank accounts for direct deposit of my refund?
- Excise taxes
- Depletion Expense
- Paid Family Leave (PFL)
- Where Do I enter a Reduction of Tax Attributes Due to Discharge of Indebtedness (Form 982)?
- Share with your friends - Cash Giveaway
- Can a paid preparer use FreeTaxUSA?
- What city tax returns can I file on FreeTaxUSA?
- Medicare Premiums
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- File another return
- Why do I owe taxes?
- How do I get a PTIN
- Bought a House during 2025
- Funeral expenses
- Gift Tax Return (Form 709)
- Sale of rental property
- Are short term disability payments taxable?
- ST-556 Illinois Sales Tax Transaction Return
- W-9
- Where do I enter the IRS e-file Signature Authorization ( Form 8879 )?
- Innocent Spouse Relief (Form 8857)
- Is third party sick pay taxable?
- What types of retirement plans have required minimum distributions (RMD)?
- Is the SSA-1099-SM the same as the SSA-1099?
- What is a Utah my529 Plan?
- Is car loan interest deductible?
- I need a copy of my old W-2
- Form 1098-C
- Is private school tuition deductible?
- Payments not deductible on your federal return
- FBAR
- Like-Kind Exchanges (Form 8824)
- RSU (Restricted Stock Units)
- HOA fees
- SIMPLE IRA
- Bookmarks
- What is the Refund Maximizer?
- 457(b) Plans
- IRS Form 14039 Affidavit of Identity Theft
- What are Other Miscellaneous Deductions for Itemized Deductions?
- What employees qualify for the job expense deduction?
- What is a permanent change in station?
- What is a low-income taxpayer for Form 9465, Installment Agreement Request?
- How do I find out more about health insurance?
- What ABLE contributions qualify for an increase to the ABLE contribution limit?
- What real estate taxes are deductible for the home office deduction?
- What are excess real estate taxes?
- What does domicile mean when determining my Utah residency?
- What if my name changed since I worked at this job?
- What job expenses can I deduct if I'm an Armed Forces reservist?
- What is the Montana Alternative Nonresident Tax?
- What is a qualified disaster for retirement distributions?
- What is a specified service trade or business?
- What do I enter in the Rental Qualified Business Income Deduction section?
- What do I enter in the Farm Rental Qualified Business Income Deduction section?
- How do I qualify for the Alabama Head of Family filing status?
- Where can I find a FEMA disaster number?
- Where do I enter Mortgage Interest Credit (Form 8396)?
- Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)
- What is a trade or business for the excess business loss limitation?
- What if I sold or exchanged capital assets for my trade or business?
- What happens if I have an excess business loss limitation?
- What states use Itemized Deductions even if they're not claimed on my federal return?
- What can I buy with my mortgage loan?
- What is Live Chat?
- What if my school won't provide a 1098-T?
- What is a nonrefundable credit?
- What is a refundable credit?
- If I haven't received my Railroad Retirement Distributions (RRB-1099-R) or if I lost my RRB-1099-R form, can I still e-file my tax return?
- Is FreeTaxUSA Safe?
- How do I calculate my home mortgage interest when it needs to be limited?
- Where do I enter a Qualified Business Income (QBI) Deduction (Form 8995)?
- How do I elect a partial disposition of my asset?
- How do I figure the depreciation equivalent amount?
- What is a Qualified Opportunity Fund?
- What do I enter for my Foreign Tax Credit excess business loss adjustment?
- What do I enter for excess business loss alternative minimum tax (AMT) adjustments?
- Who can I claim as an Alabama dependent?
- What is the Lump Sum Distribution Credit?
- What real estate taxes are reported as an itemized deduction subject to the new limitation?
- What is the phaseout for the American Opportunity Credit?
- Why can't I sign in to my 2017 account?
- Electing Farming Business
- Electing Real Property Trade or Business
- AMT Adjustment for Excess Business Interest
- What healthcare expenses can I deduct on my Ohio tax return?
- Does my rental qualify for the qualified business income (QBI) deduction?
- What types of income does qualified business income (QBI) include?
- What are wages for the qualified business income (QBI) deduction?
- What is unadjusted basis immediately after acquisition (UBIA)?
- What are qualified payments received from a cooperative?
- What contributions to a First-Time Homebuyer Savings Account can I deduct on my Iowa return?
- What do I enter in the Qualified Business Income Deduction section?
- What is qualified business income?
- Does foreign business income qualify for the Qualified Business Income Deduction?
- What if I provide services to a former employer?
- What do I enter in the Farm Qualified Business Income Deduction section?
- What should I do with my Support ID? Your support ID is: Your support ID is: your is your is your is
- How do I enter Qualified Business Income (QBI) for partnerships?
- How do I enter Qualified Business Income (QBI) for S corporations?
- How do I enter Qualified Business Income (QBI) for estates?
- How do I claim the Mortgage Interest Credit if I refinanced my mortgage?
- What income is taxable?
- What if I make excess repayments?
- What is the Idaho Child Tax Credit?
- What is a Mississippi first-time home buyer savings account?
- What if I withdraw some of the amounts I contributed this year?
- How much can I distribute from my 529 plan as a qualified expense for elementary or secondary school tuition?
- What should I enter as real estate taxes?
- What should I enter as excess rental real estate taxes?
- Can I claim an education credit the same year I take a distribution from a qualified tuition program (QTP)?
- How does California treat 529 and ABLE account changes?
- What if the payer's ID number on my 1099-NEC or 1099-MISC is a Social Security number (SSN) instead of an Employer Identification number (EIN)?
- Which employee expenses can I claim on my Hawaii return?
- What are listed assets?
- What are undistributed long-term capital gains (Form 2439)?
- Undistributed Long-Term Capital Gains (Form 2439)
- Capital Gain Credit (Form 2439)
- What if this investment had undistributed long-term capital gains reported on a Form 2439?
- What is the ADS Recovery Period?
- What is an installment sale?
- What is a related party?
- What situations apply to the nontax avoidance exception?
- What property isn't eligible for installment sales?
- What if I sold property that has been used for business or rental purposes?
- Where do I enter assets that have been used for both business and personal use?
- What if I used my second home or vacation home for business or rental purposes?
- What is my main home?
- What if I'm a widowed taxpayer and I'm selling my home?
- What if I was ever away from my main home?
- What is qualified extended duty?
- What if only one spouse owned the home?
- How do I qualify for a larger home sale exclusion if I'm a surviving spouse?
- What depreciation do I include for the sale of my home?
- What counts as a work-related move for the home sale exclusion?
- What counts as an unforeseeable event for the home sale exclusion?
- How does the gain on the sale of my main home change if I took depreciation on the home on prior year returns?
- How do I calculate my purchase price?
- What are special assessments for local improvements?
- How do you calculate my home sale exclusion?
- Wages not on a W-2
- Where do I enter Uncollected Social Security and Medicare Tax on Wages, not on a W-2, (Form 8919)?
- Am I an employee or an independent contractor?
- What counts as support?
- How is earned income calculated for Form 8615?
- What is considered a full-time student?
- Tax for Certain Children Who Have Unearned Income (Form 8615)
- What is my Net Profit as a Notary Public?
- Is a minister's housing allowance taxable income?
- What do I enter for the Minimum Tax Credit Net Operating Loss Deduction?
- What is considered unallowed qualified electric vehicle credit?
- What if I didn't file either of these worksheets with my 2024 tax return?
- What do I enter as the Minimum Tax Foreign Tax Credit on Exclusion Items?
- How do I divide expenses?
- What is considered a day of personal use?
- What is a shared equity financing agreement?
- What does fair rental price mean?
- Did you know?
- What's common income on the Your Income screen?
- What's business and rental income on the Your Income screen?
- What's uncommon income on the Your Income screen?
- What is an IRA recharacterization?
- Can I recharacterize a rollover or conversion to a Roth IRA?
- Why can't I enter a traditional or Roth contribution date in 2024?
- How do I enter an IRA contribution that was later recharacterized?
- What if I'm not sure if I'll get a refund or owe money?
- What is Phone / Email Verification?
- Coverdell Education Savings Account Distributions
- How long will it take the IRS to process my extension?
- How is my dependent's age figured for taxes?
- What are my payment options when I file an extension?
- What is a Required Minimum Distribution (RMD)?
- What should I enter for my Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) amount received?
- Can I waive any of the tax for failing to take the Required Minimum Distribution (RMD)?
- What is the required beginning date for receiving Required Minimum Distributions (RMD)?
- Can I convert or rollover Required Minimum Distributions (RMD)?
- What if the email I enter doesn't work?
- What if I can't remember the email or the phone number attached to my account?
- Who is an eligible individual for HSA contributions?
- What is the testing period for HSA contributions?
- What is a withdrawal of 2025 Traditional IRA contributions?
- What is a withdrawal of 2025 Roth IRA contributions?
- What are excess IRA contributions, and how do I correct one?
- What if my total home mortgage debt is over the deductible limit and I'm itemizing deductions?
- What if the total of my state and local income tax (or general sales taxes, if elected), real estate taxes, and personal property taxes is over the deductible limit and I'm itemizing deductions?
- Why would my Oregon Passive Activity Loss be different than my federal Passive Activity Loss?
