Retirement tax questions

For some reason, some Roth IRA custodial banks do not provide any information in the 1099 form except for the gross distribution. You can call them and ask for a final statement or figure out your post tax deposits from your own records. That information will be input into a question about nondeductible contributions, after the natural disaster questions, in the TurboTax queries after you fill out the 1099 form which will then show up in section 3 of the 8606 form. This obscure, convoluted requirement is ridiculous and I don't know why banks issuing the 1099-R forms are not required to provide taxable amounts.