topic Re: more than 35 characters in Get your taxes done using TurboTax

more than 35 characters

khodges1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:56:59 GMT

I'm at the finish line for filing my taxes. Turbo Tax is holding me up because they say the payer address in my Merrill Lynch account is to long (over 35 characters). Do I shorten it or just leave it alone?

Re: more than 35 characters

xmasbaby0 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:52:31 GMT

Can you shorten it by using an abbreviation --like "St." for "street" or "Ave." for "Avenue" etc?

Re: more than 35 characters

khodges1 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:59:22 GMT

The address is 1500 American Boulevard NJ2-150-01-13 Pennington NJ 4129, that underlined portion which is the payer street, Turbo say is too long. maybe I can see if I can abbreviate boulevard.

Re: more than 35 characters

xmasbaby0 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:01:14 GMT

Try "Blvd." for that.

Re: more than 35 characters

khodges1 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:08:09 GMT

No not working. Its still saying fix errors, to many characters.

Re: more than 35 characters

DoninGA — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:09:34 GMT

@khodges1 wrote:

No not working. Its still saying fix errors, to many characters.

Do not think the following is part of a street address, try removing this NJ2-150-01-13

Re: more than 35 characters

xmasbaby0 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:10:01 GMT

Are you trying to fit all of that on one line? Or two lines?

Re: more than 35 characters

Mike9241 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:13:25 GMT

surprise! you don't need to report their address only the name

Re: more than 35 characters

ScruffyCurmudgeon — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:16:22 GMT

In fact, the IRS software verifies the data using the payer's EIN (Employer ID Number, otherwise known as Tax ID #] Fill in abbreviated, as you wish, name such as only Merrill Lynch and an abbreviated address.

Re: more than 35 characters

khodges1 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:19:35 GMT

It only has one line for the street address.

Re: more than 35 characters

khodges1 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:20:07 GMT

ok I will try that.

Re: more than 35 characters

khodges1 — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:26:28 GMT

Guess what there was another box that I had to correct it in. The first showed you what was wrong and the second box was the original one. I was fixing the original one and not the other one. Both had to be the same. I just left the info the same and only abbreviated boulevard.