The financial institutions that issue the various 1099s - especially the bigger and more well known ones like Prudential - typically have a very good handle on how these 1099s should look and what information they should contain. My guess is that you had no short term capital gains distributions, (typically from mutual funds), and you could confirm that by looking at your own statements sent to you by Prudential. Accordingly, you'd leave that Box 2a blank in TurboTax. You could always call and ask Prudential if the omission of the box was purposeful, or a mistake on their part.
Tom Young
The financial institutions that issue the various 1099s - especially the bigger and more well known ones like Prudential - typically have a very good handle on how these 1099s should look and what information they should contain. My guess is that you had no short term capital gains distributions, (typically from mutual funds), and you could confirm that by looking at your own statements sent to you by Prudential. Accordingly, you'd leave that Box 2a blank in TurboTax. You could always call and ask Prudential if the omission of the box was purposeful, or a mistake on their part.
Tom Young