Pre IPO VC issued me 4 K-1 equivalents for my investments but won’t tell me how to file it. can’t find answers calling the IRS, the IRS website or in a google search.

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I shouldn’t have to pay someone to tell me specifically where to file this correctly. It’s a K-1, that eliminates 99% of locations. But it’s not a straight up K-1. If the answer is simply that i don’t have to include the EIN, that’s fine - but then i cannot e-file and i have to print out a 100 page return and mail it in. I simply find it unacceptable that this is apparently a great big secret that no one wants to speak about. Surely there are plenty of people out there that have invested in a pre IPO company before.