Hi Opus 17,
Thanks for your reply, but I think that you misunderstand me. I am trying to report a bug with TurboTax. If this is not that appropriate forum to report the bug in, then please let me know if there is a better way of doing that.
I am living abroad, on a US army base overseas with my family. My care provider (daycare center) DOES have a EIN, which I can enter into TurboTax. The problem is that TurboTax requires an address for the care provider, but it will not accept the military address for the daycare center here on the army base overseas. This is a bug with TurboTax, and I see that other people have complained about this same problem on this website in the past. Specifically, my daycare center has an APO AP address (Army Post Office, Armed Forces Pacific). If TurboTax were designed properly, when selecting the state for the daycare center, in addition to the options for the 50 states in the US, AP (Armed Forces Pacific) should be one of the additional options in order to accommodate US military addresses. If you are unfamiliar with this, you should look up what military addresses are. These are US addresses that are recognized by the United States Postal Service for people and organizations living and working on US military bases in foreign countries. However, since TurboTax does not have this functionality, I am unable to select "AP" as the state, and it does not accept the US zip code that I provide either because it is a US zip code associated with an AP address.
I could identify my care provider (daycare center) as a foreign care provider, but that is not accurate, and then in that case TurboTax does not allow me to provide the EIN for the care provider. The actual solution should be that TurboTax should allow military addresses to be entered for care providers operating on US military bases in foreign countries, and it should recognize and accept those addresses as valid US addresses, as the US government does. This is a problem that TurboTax should try to fix in order to better serve US military personnel and government contractors that live and work on US military bases in foreign countries.
Thank you.
