@Ristau @JotikaT2
I've seen that "12a" a few times now. And it appears to be a text error on one of the TTX Review/error pages, where TTX did not renumber that 12a to the new 2020 box 14a.
.............boxes 12,13,14 from the 2019 forms were officially renumbered as 14, 15, 16 in the 2020 1099-R forms
It is really referring to box 14 (the "a" just refers to the first state line on the form for boxes 14,15,16)
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So you really need to have box 14 in that value... BUT
BUT..but........Buuuuut !!!!!
IF it's for NY? Then it may really complaining about box 16 being blank....and you need to copy box 2a into box 16 as the NY distribution amount (or the Federally taxable amount of box 1 if box 2a is empty).
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WISH TTX WOULD FIND THAT ERROR PAGE AND FIX IT...but I don't have NY software to confirm
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