SOLUTION
After additional research, this is definetely a TurboTax bug. TurboTax erroneously inserts the
US city and USA
from the downloaded data into the foreign country field instead of the proper US city and zip fields where they belong. TurboTax does this for all 1099-DIV forms.
In contrast TurboTax handles downloaded 1099-INT forms correctly.
Should be easy for Intuit to correct or at least notify their 'support' staff instead of wasting hours of users time on the phone. But they have yet to do so.
The only solution available to users is to:
SAVE YOUR TURBOTAX FILE UNDER A NEW NAME!
Then
1. go the each 1099-Div form produced by TurboTax and print them on paper.
2. Then delete all these forms produced by TurboTax.
3. Open (create) new 1099 forms from scratch in TurboTax and fill in all the data manually using the printed forms.
This works and the errors disappear. Since the numbers are unchanged, the tax calculations should remain correct.
(But who knows with this year's TurboTax? )
I hope this helps others.
Intuit, get with it!
