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I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, all are combined into one (in part 3A). How do I separate them.

mccaustlin — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:01:47 GMT

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

TurboTaxBrenda — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:12:16 GMT

TurboTax covers multiple businesses for one individual. Once you have completed the first business's income & expenses, choose the option to enter a new business. This should keep everything separated.

Thank you for choosing TurboTax.

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

mccaustlin — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:22:52 GMT

The information from the 2nd T4A that is entered on the 2nd T2125 form does not show on that T2125, it is added to the first T2125 form. How do I change this? Thanks

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

TurboTaxBrenda — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:32:33 GMT

On both of your T4A's you have a box 20 or 48 with an amount?

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

mccaustlin — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:46:47 GMT

Yes both T4A's have a Box 20 completed

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

TurboTaxBrenda — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:16:50 GMT

Any amounts on your T2125 you should be able to edit. Where exactly are you seeing the amount on the T2125?

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

mccaustlin — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:27:35 GMT

In Part 3A - Income reported on T4A slips
Should I remove from the T4A slip and put it somewhere else?

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

TurboTax_Susan — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:51:04 GMT

Unfortunately, when the income is coming from T-slips, the program will assign it to a particular T2125, and there is no way to pick which one or move it to a separate one.

Thank you for using TurboTax.

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

sandyemtucker — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:03:07 GMT

This has also happened with me. When I synced my CRA account to turbo tax it automatically imported all my T4 and T4A slips information. However, I have two T4As from different businesses. So when I'm entering in the information for each business it took the amounts from box 20 on each slip and made it as one lump sum of income. When I was entering the information for my first business it had the total lump sum of income from both businesses, but when I entered the business information from my second business, there was no income indicated. What should I do?

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

TurboTax_Susan — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:56:52 GMT

@sandyemtucker Again, when the income is coming from T-slips, the program will assign it to a particular T2125, and there is no way to pick which one or move it to a separate one. But, ultimately, the income and expenses from all your T2125s will be combined into the same line on the T1 (line 13500 in the case of Business Income).

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

heathermac11 — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:55:42 GMT

I am having this happen to. So when I start the expenses for business 1 - it has the entire amount but then it asks me total commission as the first question - can I separate it there?

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

TurboTax_Susan — Wed, 14 May 2025 16:29:43 GMT

@heathermac11 No. Your self-employment income from your t-slips are automatically included on your T2125 form. Entering the amounts from your T-slips again is just going to incorrectly double your income.

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

Hcinnamon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:44:09 GMT

This is a very stupid design. Why isn't there a way to assign my different T4As to different businesses? This is Self Employed Turbo Tax after all... shouldn't it be designed for Self-Employed people with multiple businesses? If I have multiple T4As from multiple independent businesses - all for professional services - there is no way to properly link them. I am having to find a new platform other than TurboTax to file my taxes with this year because of this issue. It would just take one button on the T4A page to have a dropdown menu of the businesses... or a spot to enter the business industry code from the business... makes no sense.

Based on what you are saying Susan, I have to falsely report my income from different businesses to the goverment, cause Turbo Tax is so poorly designed that it lumps all in T4A income into one business... this would be a disaster if I was audited cause it would not match my records at all. This defeats the entire purpose of honestly and accurately filing my taxes via Turbo Tax. Why haven't you fixed this since people have been posting about it here for 2 years? Does Turbo Tax just honestly not care about their users?

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

TurboTax_Susan — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:33:05 GMT

@Hcinnamon No one is asking you to untruthful. You are self-employed, so ultimately, all your businesses are still you, as an individual tax payer. Which is why income and expenses from all your T2125s are be combined into line 13500, and then combined with any other income you have. The T2125s will still be included in your tax return to show the details like expenses, business names & numbers, as well as your T4As, which will be in your name with your SIN.

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

Hcinnamon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:49:27 GMT

Update: I just went over to Wealthsimple - which is Pay-what-you-want taxes and when you create a T2125 for each business, they AUTOMATICALLY pop up on your T4A on a drop down menu where you can link them - SO MUCH BETTER DESIGNED. I recommend all self-employed people go use that. It is CRA approved and again, you can pay what you want to file through them and it is way better designed!

Turbo Tax - if you are going to charge us, you need to hire people to update your platform so it actually works and is user-friendly! In the meantime, I urge you all to go over to Wealthsimple if you have this problem - I promise I don't work for them at all. But after 5 HOURS on the phone with Turbo Tax people who couldn't help me - their website offered an instant solution and was so much more user-friendly and better designed!

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

Louie — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:28:27 GMT

Susan, I agree that all the Commission Sales income and expenses will all aggregate and total into income on the second page of the T1 General BUT why not allow for the input of each T4A to be associated with each business that I have?

Your program already allows me to have individual T2125 forms for each of my businesses and labels them T2125-C1, T2125-C2, etc. So why can't you just set drop down box at the bottom of each T4A entry page to associate the T4A to the specific business (ef. T2125-C1) that generated that commission revenue. Then the commission revenue for each business will align with the expenses that I have for that business. Should be a very simple programing change that would allow for the accounting of the revenue for each business to the associated to the expenses for that business.

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

TurboTax_Susan — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:52:59 GMT

@Louie I will pass on your suggestion to our product development team. Thank you for your input.

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

006doubleohsix — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:56:23 GMT

I have the same concern and specifically paid extra for the Home and Business version so that I could, you know, report the income from two separate home businesses accurately. It's worrying to have to file something which in aggregate is accurate but is inaccurate in the details. I

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

Hcinnamon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:13:45 GMT

Honestly, just go use WealthSimple. I switched after this annoying unhelpful thread left me nowhere and its pay what you want and they have the exact drop down menu you are talking about - it was so simple and a dream come true. I am done with turbo tax forever - charging us all 10 times as much for a garbage product that can’t do basic things like you are saying. They obviously do not value their customers at all. Switch to WealthSimple. Trust me. I don’t work for them. I just spent hours on this thread getting super annoyed and I’ve spent six hours talking to TurboTax to try to resolve this issue and no one cares. Then I tried WealthSimple, and my problem was solved immediately and I got to pay $20 to file my taxes. But I could’ve paid five if I wanted. And the product is so much better.

Re: I have two T4A's, as I have different Direct sales businesses. When I try to edit the T2125, ...

TurboTaxBrenda — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:03:36 GMT

@Hcinnamom— Can you please clarify if you are completing a Canadian or US return, as we see that you purchased TurboTax US returns?