As others have noted, this is a non-answer and is a very lazy, and potentially dangerous, approach being taken by TurboTax. Banks are required to report 1098 info separately to the IRS, so it should be able to be entered separately into TurboTax in order to match up against IRS records. Further, the instructions are very unclear and can easily lead users to miss this programming defect and artificially pay more in income taxes than they should. If this ends up being the "final" workaround answer from TT, I am going to have to look elsewhere for tax software as it begs the question - what else is TurboTax missing in its programming that is leading to a higher tax bill than is necessary?
