This appears to be a longstanding issue with TurboTax that remains unresolved. I found answers surrounding this topic that date back to 2019. Using TurboTax H&B so if not using appropriate package, please advise...
I, also, have multiple brokerage accounts (payers) which each show foreign income + taxes paid from multiple (more than three) countries in each. Never encountered an issue with this apparent glitch in previous years; however, this year TurboTax appears to be choking on a new requirement to list each country rather than compiling all of them into "Various"? When walking through the TT interview in the section about Foreign Tax Credit, I used dropdowns to select multiple countries from which to Report Income. A user must select a country to enter data (user may only select one country at a time). After entering the data for one country, TT prompts to Review Entries or click "Done". If selecting Done, TT moves on to next section and gives no opportunity to add data from 2nd country, 3rd country, and so on. If selecting Review Entries, TT appears to forget the list of multiple countries that I had entered before (except for the one just completed). If I add another country back to the list and Continue in order to enter its data, dollar entries from the first country that were entered are pre-populated in the fields for the second country. Editing those fields appears to also wipe out any data that was entered from the first country. Trying to repeat that process to enter a third country, I found that my entries from the first country were no longer shown at all. When accessing the Form 1116 and attempting to do this directly in the forms rather than via the TT interview, I'm able to enter up to three countries manually. This approach would be a pain but, at least, work for entering 3 countries or fewer. IRS instructions state to create multiple 1116s if a taxpayer needs to enter info for more than three countries, but TT does not seem to allow that. I was able to create another 1116 but it seems to be uneditable (clicking in columns in Part I to name countries, enter data, etc. doesn't work). Disappointed to find that this issue seems to have been present in TT for many years, with a growing number of people encountering it, and it still appears to be a problem that TT hasn't bothered to resolve, except for, possibly, a convoluted process for creating dummy 1099-DIVs and then manually entering everything which other users have reported as causing false errors during the review process.
