Every figure on a return came from somewhere and lands somewhere
A filed return is a stack of forms that each show a total and hide the path to it. This is one return drawn as the path instead: the source document on the left, the Form 1040 line it ends up on at the right, and every schedule, form and worksheet it passed through in between. Select any box to trace it in both directions.
The two amber boxes are the places where a limitation changed the number on the way through — a capital loss capped at $3,000, a passive loss suspended in full. Those are the two facts a reviewer most wants to find, and on the filed return they are invisible: the form shows only what survived.
This is a sample return, not a service. Jordan & Priya Ellis are fictional, and the figures are constructed so that every relationship on the map closes exactly. Nothing here uploads, reads or stores a return — the page is static sample data. The preview that does read your own figures is the 1040 preview, a tab on Tools.
Jordan & Priya Ellis — 2025 Form 1040, MFJ
The map demonstrates how a reviewed return would be presented, built on a fictional 2025 return. Amounts, limitations and carryovers are computed the way the cited forms compute them — the $3,000 capital loss limit, the $25,000 active-participation allowance phased out above $150,000 of modified AGI, and the Form 8995 income limitation of 20% of taxable income before the QBI deduction less net capital gain. Read it as an illustration of those rules, not as advice on a real return, and verify anything you intend to rely on against the current forms and instructions. Line references follow the 2025 Form 1040 (Cat. No. 11320B, revision of 5 September 2025), retrieved 26 September 2026. The 2025 form renumbered several lines: adjusted gross income is 11a here, where a 2024 return would show it on line 11. This is a static copy of those references and it will go stale silently. How the review works · How your data is handled