@cjn2I agree with you 100%. There's no excuse for making what should be simple that complicated. Who in their right mind is going to manually create multiple 1099's just to capture individual country taxes? That's an insane workaround and a recipe for errors.
I only have two country taxes in modest amounts, so I just use "various" and let the IRS write to me if they don't like it. So far, I haven't had a problem. But I can understand a taxpayer's discomfort if they have multiple foreign taxes consolidated on their brokerage account 1099.
The problem for most of us is we want to use TT to make tax filing easier, not harder. It's a big pain in the butt when you smoothly proceed through the tax input process, then get stuck on some ridiculous problem with no guidance how to solve it.
I sold out of my MLP positions years ago because inputting the K-1's was more trouble than it was worth. I'd hate to find myself in the same boat with respect to owning foreign stocks, like Toyota.
