I fought this for 2 days, I entered 6 1099-R forms, none were duplicates but TT would not let me beyond this page, saying there were duplicate 1099-R forms. I called support, they had no idea how to correct the problem & told me file manually by mail. After reading many posts by TT users I tried everything that was suggested because TT would not let me beyond the error page saying "duplicate 1099-R. Here is what I did and it worked:
1) slightly change the name of the financial institution or break up the address in the two lines on the form of
1099-R's from the same institution.
2) change the amount of your distribution by a few cents, if you received $2500. change it to $2499.75
3) enter a date in box 13
4) enter an account # on the form
5) change the last digit of the zip code so it looks like a different financial institution, these will have no effect
on your form
6) go to box 16, the state distribution & enter the same amount as you entered above in box 1
After doing all these things, TT accepted my 1099-R forms, I don't know which ones really mattered, but do
them all just to be sure. I filed electronically, everything was accepted.
