I understand that - and that does make sense. But just to be clear, I made the change in the reporting method a good eight years ago. I have been reporting the interest on these bonds since 2012, and have done so electronically for most of those years. Only difference this year is that I actually cashed in one of the bonds, which is why I need the Schedule B entry to adjust the 1099 figure. And, as noted, the software I used generated the Schedule B form exactly the right way and exactly the way it would look if I were doing it manually. So it strikes me as odd that the IRS won't accept an e-file on a schedule B that looks the same as it would be on a manual file.
The original point of my posting here was to ask if I would run into this same problem if I used Turbo Tax instead of the other product. Your point is yes, I probably would, because it seems this is more of an IRS requirement than a specific software problem. But is there any way I can be sure of that?
