In this case, I’ll wait until tomorrow to call again and see if there has been a fix. I was on call and screen sharing for two hours today to show the issue to TurboTax CSR.
I looked it up, and apparently the integers of a SSN can overlap with someone else’s EIN as SSN are for individuals and EIN are for businesses. I won’t input the 9 integers into the EIN then, because the placement of the dashes matter in determining the payer’s entity. Unlikely, and can be chalked up to a input error but still.
It would be a lesser evil as you say to delete the 1099-NEC form entirely and just report the whole income number as “Other” on the Schedule C, then keep the 1099 for your own records.
And the greatest good would be to use the TurboTax form with the SSN as an SSN but print it out and mail it in with a check, since the system keeps tripping up and cycling on requiring an EIN.
But the price tag on buying this online program was for convenience, so I’d rather not have to make a trip to the bank for a check and then to the post office to send with a tracking number.
