Jerry6
New Member

Do I need to enter the the Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) for each payer of 1099-DIV dividends?

I'm double checking each dividend entry and find that TT prompts me for the FEIN of companies I imported electronically.  That's ok and it's automatically populated.  However it doesn't ask for the FEIN for companies I manually added.  Why is this happening and is it necessary for the FEIN to be there?