Yeah...I'm never quite clear on the why for that.
My two pension 1099-R forms from Fidelity never have the distribution box filled in, even though both have NC taxes withheld. When I go thru the software though, TTX backfills box 16 with the same value as box 2a (a valid Box 2a value is defined for both forms).
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