Yeah, it confuses many people that Qual dividends are included in the Ordinary dividends value. WHY the IRS chose to report them that way is confounding.
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Try it another way...box 1a is all Apples, the sub-portion of 1a that can be further ID'd as MacIntoshes is in 1b.
The 1b number is treated differently (got to peel those annoyingly tough MacIntosh skins)
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