Yes...someone else picked up on that yesterday. The TTX text is wrong and is using last year's box number information in the text...make sure that the value used is from box 16.
The IRS changed the box numbers from 2019's boxes #12,13,14, and changed them to 14,15,16 for 2020.
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@macuser_22 any chance you can get the Moderators to check this text error out and get it corrected (at least I hope it's just a text/instruction error)? None of us uses the Maine software, so someone would need that to see where it occurs, and make sure that box 16 is the value to be used
oh damn...16 might be empty on some 1099-Rs...but since it applies to former ME employees, perhaps their retirement system 1099-R forms fill in box 16.
@BillT4 On your actual paper/PDF ME State Employees Retirement System 1099-R, is box 16 filled in with a $$ value?
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