This is ridiculous. Why does TT force someone paying for their software to take a deduction, which is an elective choice by definition?
It is a bug and it needs to be fixed or this is my last year using TT. No excuse.
And the advice to not include a matching value from an IRS-reported 1099-DIV is not smart. It should just ask, like it does for any other deduction. Highly unsatisfactory.
