1099-R Download Disaster! Rejected Return From IRS

Bad-Robot · ‎March 25, 2026

Every downloaded 1099-R was rejected by the IRS.

The numbers are all correct.

What happened? I just resubmitted.

This is a very big problem that must be resolved.

Mike9241

this public forum has no access to your information. was there a reject code or message? If so, what was it?

you're the first to report this type of issue with every 1099-R. until the issue is fixed, you'll likely continue to be rejected

don't know how many are involved, but a workaround might be to delete them and enter them manually.

something may have corrupted the imports, which you can not see but is causing issues with the electronic file.

Bad-Robot

Mike,

Thank you for the reply. As a computer programmer from the 1960s, it is clear to me that one of the TT updates was defective and was unable to process downloaded 1099-R data an yielded a F1099R-501-02 error. I got help from a TT customer service representative and he said delete all the 1099-R forms. That is a sledge hammer approach, but Intuit is clearly not testing their updates and downloading and verifying all the data took about 90 minutes.

To have every 1099-R download, from various financial institutions is very strange and indicates a systematic error in the TT software. You can't blame the financial institutions and perhaps the IRS database either. The TT update was defective. I saved my updated TT file with a separate name and amazingly the latest TT software updated cured the problem. The federal submission was accepted. How lucky was I to fall into an infinitely small software crack and pull my hair out. I will be asking for a refund or credit to be used next year... Heck of an unnecessary detour...