How do I delete a Car and Truck Expense Worksheet from Schedule E for a Rental Property? No longer using vehicle in this service but TT keeps bringing it back.

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March 16, 2025
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Several years back I used a personal vehicle for some rental property related matters. Still have the property but not using the vehicle for that purpose. TT however doesn't ask about this but just continues to bring in the Car and Truck Expense Worksheet which only shows up during the Federal Review stage, and then I'm too answer various questions which are essentially N/A now.

DianeW777

The vehicle can be removed from service by taking the steps below and it will not carry over to another tax year. Please remember until this vehicle is sold, traded or junked it must be a taxable recordkeeping item. If any of those actions occur it will be a taxable event.

When reviewing your vehicle information be sure to select 'Your percentage of business use of the vehicle varied over the years.' Next select Yes 'Did you convert the asset to nonbusiness use?' This should eliminate any sales questions and you can use 01/01/2024 as the date of the conversion .

Open your TurboTax Desktop or TurboTax Online return

Select Business Income and Expense or Income and Expenses
Scroll to Rent, Royalty, Revisit or Update Edit beside your rental
Select Business Vehicle > Edit
Enter the date you stopped using this vehicle
Continue to the screen 'Do any of these apply to your vehicle?'
Select 'You started using it as a personal vehicle 100% of the time at any point in 2024'
Yes > Did you convert this asset to nonbusiness use?
Continue and you will finish your vehicle screens (enter miles for the year and zero business miles)

Once completed it should not carry forward to 2025.

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weylsAuthor

Hi Diane. Thanks for the detailed reply. I don't seem to have a Business Vehicle option to select anywhere under the rental. Would posting a screenshot here help? Any ideas on how else to navigate to that?

DianeW777

Yes, let's try that. If you are using TurboTax Desktop you can delete the car worksheet by selecting Forms at the top menu, then select 'Delete.....' the worksheet you are on for the car.