As many of you have already concluded: This IS a TT bug! Just as "Champ" macuser_22 has repeatedly said with multiple posts over the past 3 weeks: "only rounded whole numbers, not cents, are reported to the IRS." TT should just admit it and update their software.
The proof of this is fairly straightforward. Like many of you I had an e-file rejected "by IRS" because of duplicate 1099R's. The two 1099R's had exactly the same dollar amount and tax withheld. I raised one by $0.14 to raise the first to the next whole dollar and decreased the 2nd by $0.14 so that the totals of all 1099R's were not altered. It was then accepted in 30 minutes.
Now, if you look at the printed file that you would submit to the IRS if you decided to mail it or kept for your records, you will see that the amounts on 1040 have not changed at all whether you look at the file before the $0.01 cent adjustment (if you did that ) or something different (+- $0.14) that did not change rounded amounts - like I did. The two files are identical. The file that TT sends to the IRS would NOT be any different, whichever of these methods you used because the whole number rounded values would be the same. So quit worrying about getting in trouble for sending a insignificantly altered 1099R to the IRS. You are not trying to "trick" the IRS! You ARE tricking TT's faulty software to submit the same legitimate and accurate file to the IRS.
