I am filing using the TurboTax program, Premier 2020, on Windows 10. I have a 1099-DIV from a state municipal bond fund. Because it's a municipal bond fund, Box 1a, "Total ordinary dividends", is blank on the 1099-DIV. There is an amount in box 11, "Exempt-interest dividends". I enter all the information for all the boxes into TurboTax. When it came time for final checking, TurboTax balked at this, saying that what was in box 1a should be at least as big a number as what is in box 11. No; as the 1099-DIV instructions state, box 1a is for "total ordinary dividends that are taxable," and these are not. I have tried entering a '0' into box 1a, but it still says the same thing. I have tried entering what is in box 11 into box 1a; when I do, TurboTax increases my tax owed. I tried ignoring this altogether, but at the very end when I try to electronically send the forms, TurboTax kicks this out again! It seems like this may have been a bug in TurboTax online, but people found a work-around. Any suggestions? "About" says my version is 020. zero zero zero. 1690. I am a Massachusetts resident, and the municipal bond fund is Massachusetts municipal bonds.
