How do I enter retirement income from another country when I don't have an EIN?

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June 6, 2019
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I receive retirement income from another country (Australia). I tried to create a 1099R but I don't have an EIN. Should I enter it differently?

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Best answer by PopeyeTheSalior

To enter a foreign retirement in TurboTax online program, you will need to create a substitute form 1099-R.

Here are the steps:

Sign in to your account and select Pick up where you left off
At the right upper corner, type in 1099r, then Enter
Select Jump to 1099r
On-screen, Your 1099-R, answer Yes and select Continue
Next screen, Choose your bank or brokerage, select I'll type it in myself
On the screen Tell Us Which 1099-R You Have, check the box I need to prepare a substitute 1099-R and follow the prompts.

As to the Federal ID, if your foreign issuer does not have the ID number, try entering nine 9s. If electronic errors occur due to 1099-R data entry, enter the pension under Miscellaneous income, see below instructions. As long as the IRS has the pension reported and included in total income, it is not problematic.

To your left, select Federal
From the top, select Wages and Income
Scroll down to last section -Less Common Income -select Miscellaneous Income, 1099-A, 1099-C- Start
Next screen, scroll down to Other Reportable Income- Start
Follow prompts

For more information, see http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/The-Taxation-of-Foreign-Pension-and-Annuity-Distributions

PopeyeTheSaliorAnswer

Level 13

To enter a foreign retirement in TurboTax online program, you will need to create a substitute form 1099-R.

Here are the steps:

Sign in to your account and select Pick up where you left off
At the right upper corner, type in 1099r, then Enter
Select Jump to 1099r
On-screen, Your 1099-R, answer Yes and select Continue
Next screen, Choose your bank or brokerage, select I'll type it in myself
On the screen Tell Us Which 1099-R You Have, check the box I need to prepare a substitute 1099-R and follow the prompts.

To your left, select Federal
From the top, select Wages and Income
Scroll down to last section -Less Common Income -select Miscellaneous Income, 1099-A, 1099-C- Start
Next screen, scroll down to Other Reportable Income- Start
Follow prompts

For more information, see http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/The-Taxation-of-Foreign-Pension-and-Annuity-Distributions

chriskitchin

Level 2

Is there an answer to this question? It is a serious question and deserves a serious answer.

joann44

Level 3

This problem still exists and hasn't been solved by Intuit for years now.

Please let us report and file our retirement foreign pensions properly on the form 1099-R.

Generic payer's tax id numbers don't work anymore, there should be an option to leave this blank if the payer's doesn't have a valid ID. Filing this as "other income" affects our State taxes and income exclusions.

It should be reported on 1099-R forms, period!

IRS systems will reject returns with dummy numbers under their current iteration. You can't put one in, and you can't put foreign pension in the area designed for domestic pensions that are subject to the IRS matching systems. This isn't a TurboTax issue, it is a modernized efile system issue.

The workaround is how anyone, even a professional, will prepare the return, and manual adjustments will have to be made in TurboTax for states that allow a foreign pension to be treated the same as other pensions.

You've posted this on dozens of threads to make it appear to be a huge problem when it's not. It's not the software, it's the IRS rule here, and the solution has been given. If that solution isn't workable for your tax return then the program isn't for you. What you're asking for isn't to report it properly, but would report it improperly.

Some software, perhaps, ignores those entries or knows to remove the data from the efile transmission but I've honestly not seen one yet that does this. Foreign pensions aren't the same and they don't go in the area for 1099-R because they're not reported on that form and they won't match in the IRS systems.