The counterintuitive IRS instructions for lines 4a and 5a on the 1040 stipulate that there are situations in which you do not enter a total in these lines. We have received these comments for years that TurboTax does not always populate lines 4a and 5a but it turns out that it is correct not to.
You should, of course, have entries in lines 4b and 5b as required. Do you have any taxable IRA distributions that do not appear in line 4a?
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