@VolvoGirl exactly. But @AnnAtTaxes says she's been using TT for 30 years. It seems unlikely she would be entering her SSA-1099 since there are no monthly numbers on it--I have one in front of me right now.
She also mentions specifically importing from another tax program, so that too is not consistent with entering an SSA-1099, which so far I've only seen as a paper form.
For this reason I responded to her concern about the numbers rounding first then being added up rather than about what form she was entering.
[Where I ran into the rounding issue in a previous tax year was with the 1095-a (reporting affordable care act insurance bought on a state or national exchange,) which has both monthly entries and an annual total. For Colorado anyway, the entries are not rounded. TT used the monthly entries, rounded, to calculate the annual total rather than recording the annual total as entered on the form. For instance, .49 rounds down, but .49x12 rounds to 6, giving a $6 discrepancy such as @AnnAtTaxes mentions. The IRS looks only at the dollar amounts, so their computers had no idea why I would misreport the dollar amount by $6 and generated a nice letter correcting my tax return as filed.]
These kinds of errors are very easy to imagine if an exchange of information between two tax programs, both independently interpreting IRS forms, was also involved.
Also @AnnAtTaxes , both @VolvoGirl and I are just other members of the community of TT users, not TT employees. Anyone responding in these forums as an employee has that noted in the name badge. Because of these forums, I know @VolvoGirl as we both have been responding to queries for many years now, much longer than the current system of "badges" counts. Our professional experience is not noted here, although judging from her answers I would guess that we both have been doing taxes for more than just ourselves somewhere somehow ;-).
