This involves form CT-EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit). I had two major clients this year that I needed to receive 1099-MISC forms from. On the form it has their TIN (I imagine it's their EIN). When I got to filling out state tax info, it asked me to list up to three sources of income that I did not have state tax withheld.
My old job that I left filled in automatically from my W2 (they weren't withholding state, no big deal).
But the other two slots for my big freelance clients were empty. I put in the TIN as the Federal ID number because that's all I had, left the state ID blank, and put in the amount I was paid.
When I got to the checkup round for state, TurboTax flagged the missing state IDs. Other than calling up my clients and asking them, I don't know how I'm supposed to know this info since it's not provided on the 1099-MISC.
