@LeticiaF1 You say “If you do have withholding, then usually the state that you live in will tax the whole distribution. This would make box 16 the same as box 1”. Why do you say “usually”? I come here for help and that isn’t a helpful answer. You still leave me guessing! And, if the IRS doesn’t care if the boxes have data, why does TurboTax choose to make an error out of an empty box? Yes, I have data in box 14 and no data in box 16 and a dead stop error from TurboTax for something that IRS doesn’t care about and no one can tell me why box 1 instead of box 2a should be input by me into box 16 when the payer that issued the 1099-R chose to put nothing in box 16. I’m just looking for an answer that makes sense in more than a “usually” way. But thanks for your response.
