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Problem with entering 1099-DIV with 5 countries. Have read "Special Instructions". Program will only take 1 country's data despite all countries listed. What is wrong?

balloony — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:32:17 GMT

When I trying to enter the Foreign Income for the country with the next largest tax paid (per the Special Instructions), the income field is populated with the largest country's income, and overwriting it changes the income for the largest country. Either the instructions are not clear, or there is something wrong with the program.

Re: Problem with entering 1099-DIV with 5 countries. Have read "Special Instructions". Program wi...

JohnB5677 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:54:43 GMT

Please clarify your question.

Is this a personal tax return?
Where did you find the special instructions?
Are you referring to box 7 Foreign Tax Paid on form 1099-DIV?

Re: Problem with entering 1099-DIV with 5 countries. Have read "Special Instructions". Program wi...

balloony — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 10:11:26 GMT

Yes, I am refering to box T, Foreign Tax Paid (FTP). As for the Special Instructions, I started searching in help on FTP and found a hot link with to the Special Instructions. Essentially the instructions say that the information on each country has to be entered in descending value of the taxes paid order. The instructions are not really clear as to what happens when you have two 1099-DIVs with FTP (which I do), but I couldn't get past the first one.

Re: Problem with entering 1099-DIV with 5 countries. Have read "Special Instructions". Program wi...

AmyC — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:46:30 GMT

If all of the dividends come from mutual funds, just select RIC for regulated investment company and sum the totals. Otherwise, you will have to enter one at a time. Remember, Form 1116 is only needed for amounts over $300 when reported on dividends.

At the Where Did you Receive Dividend Income screen, you have to enter one country, go through all the questions, come back and enter the next country. Follow these steps:

Receive income from, select a country, continue
Income from foreign countries, will display countries from first screen (but only as added one at a time)
select the country you just added
select add income
Report tax paid, select the income associated with that country, check the box, continue
Enter the foreign tax paid, continue
Do you want to review your entries? select Yes
Enter the next country and repeat the process