You are 100% correct. This is an idiotic process. If your purpose in using Turbo Tax is to demonstrate work arounds that consume endless hours to compensate for the inability of the software to deal with this issue, then you win the Turbo Tax Geek of the Month award, but if you are like most of us and just want to get this **bleep** chore over with, then the work arounds are needless time consuming BS. I have complained about this ad nauseum for years but no avail. It is a major software flaw. Some simple suggestions are: sell all of your foreign stock, or put it all together on s spread sheet and make a single entry ( aggregate all dividends and all withholding and make one entry for country "various") and hope for the best. Keep complaining and maybe they will fix it. I almost want to let my accountant do it, but I find that actually doing my taxes every year reinforces my view that we are over taxed and over regulated by idiots who have no idea what they are doing. It is also useful for tax planning and having a full understanding of what the tax implications of your investments are
