I've tried to enter a foreign pension two different ways in TT, and both generate errors due to lack of a US payer ID.
First, I entered the amount under Other income. TT could not process the address or payer ID, generating about 6 errors.
Second, I filled out Form 4852 for a substitute 1099-R, filled in the address, reasons, indicated it was foreign income. This method generated 2 errors, the one it could not resolve was the payer ID being 99-999999.
In both cases, I cannot e-file due to this problem. In the past, I could go the Misc income route to get around the payerID issue, but not anymore evidently.
Not being able to e-file is a real pain. That's one of the reasons why I use TT.
Is there ANY way to bypass that check?
By the way, I report on the problems with foreign pensions EVERY YEAR since it broke a few years ago and TT still hasn't fixed it.
