The TurboTax error message that I received on 23 February 2021 when attempting to import data from Merrill Lynch is "Maintenance Notification From Your Import Provider", followed by the Merrill Lynch logo, and the following text: "The 1099 Import service for Fidelity Investments is currently unavailable. Please try your import again on February 24, 2021 at 5:15AM PT." I received this same error message today, on 24 February, asking me to try again on 25 February.
Note that (1) I am not trying to import from Fidelity Investments, I am trying to import data from Merrill and (2) I do not even get as far as a logon screen at Merrill and (3) if I try any other (random) drop-down selections other than Merrill, such as Fidelity Investments and USAA, I do succeed in getting to the logon screens for these financial entities.
My version of TurboTax Desktop components on Windows 10 is 2020.48.18.66 . I do have automatic updates enabled.
I can see reports of recent imports from Merrill for Tax Year 2020 that have resulted in zero data values. (Big Oops!) It appears that the TurboTax 2020 faucet may have been turned off temporarily on Merrill data imports until this problem is resolved. At this point in time, I'll just wait for a TurboTax update, and then try importing again. I am a long-time TurboTax user, so I have done many such data imports over the years, and I know how this import process normally works. Right now, this process is definitely broken for Merrill Lynch data imports.
