I'm using Turbotax Premier. I have tax exempt bonds from my home state Michigan, and one from Arizona. All have Box 13 premium amounts (amortized) which are less than the Box 8 interest for each. I entered these by creating a separate 1099-INT worksheet for each bond. I entered the box 8 interest and box 13 premium amounts as positive numbers. Next, I checked "we need to adjust the taxable amount." Next, I choose Michigan and Arizona for each respective bond. I do not check "I earned tax exempt interest in more than one state" because I'm doing a separate 1099 INT for each bond, and when I tried that there was no way to break out the bond premium for each bond or even by state. Next, on the "Report Interest Adjustment" page, I enter the amount from box 13 as a positive number in the "Adjustment" box and check "I amortized a premium I paid on a tax exempt bond."
But in Federal Review I get one error for the Arizona 1099 INT. I do not get this error for the Michigan bonds even though the information is entered exactly the same on all of them. The error says:
Schedule B – Form 1099-INT: Bond premium tax exempt. The total bond premium adjustment of 1446.44 reported on this form 1099-INT is greater than the related Box 8 tax-exempt interest of 1000.00. You must reduce the bond premium amount reported on this 1099-INT to the amount of Box 3. Any excess amount is a nondeductible loss.
The bond premium amount on this bond is 723.22. I entered that amount in box 13 and in the Interest Adjustment box, same as for the respective amounts on the Michigan bonds. It's saying I reported the interest adjustment at double what I reported. It is asking me to change it to the amount in box 3 (zero), which makes no sense. If I do that I lose the error but I also lose the interest adjustment on my state tax return. This seems like a bug in the program. I've searched everywhere but have come up empty. Several posts say to do just what I'm doing. I'll probably just finish the return with the error; pretty sure the amounts flowing into the respective forms are correct. Any ideas?
