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Level 2
posted Feb 14, 2022 9:33:08 AM

Foreign Postal Code fields on form 8938 overwrite each other when entering both a Foreign Account and an Other Financial Asset. Fixes?

TurboTax is using a single field for both postal codes (not the rest of the address, since they obviously can be different).  When you put input anything in the Other Financial Asset postal code it overwrites the first.  

Example.  I put the word DUMMY in the Other Financial Assets postal code, and it overwrote the Foreign Account postal code.  I revisited later and wrote BUG in the Foreign Account postal code and it then showed the same in the Other Financial Assets.

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Expert Alumni
Feb 15, 2022 2:12:03 PM

In testing your issue, I found the the address for a 'Foreign Account' and the address for a 'Foreign Asset' are reported in different sections on Form 8938, so they should not overwrite each other. 

 

Also, Form 8938 prepares a 'continuation sheet' if you have more than one account/asset.

 

 

 

 

Level 2
Feb 15, 2022 3:29:05 PM

Hello,

 

Two problems.  Both are on the "Additional Foreign Financial Accounts or Other Financial Assets", aka COPY1, COPY2, etc.

 

First issue:  It does not remember your answer to "Do you need to enter a Foreign Financial Account or an Other Foreign Financial Asset (or both) on this page?".  It defaults to the first choice, even if I have selected the third (both account and asset) and are now trying to edit a COPY.

 

Second issue:  As described in first posting.  It only happens in COPY1, COPY2, etc.  It works fine in the initial form, but NOT in the additional forms to add more Accounts/Assets.

Expert Alumni
Feb 21, 2022 12:39:06 PM

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