QBI form 8995 vs. 8995-A

[turbokarst]

I have a small amount of QBI from agriculture and also have some patronage dividends that are not agriculture related.  According to IRS if...

"You aren’t a patron in a specified agricultural or horticultural cooperative" I should be able to use form 8995 which is already released.  However, TTax must be seeing I have a patronage dividends and automatically routing me to form 8995-A.  Any ideas how I could get around this?

[JohnW222 · Accepted solution]

There doesn't appear to be any way around this, for exactly the reason you put forward.

According to the 2019 Instructions for Form 8995:

"Individuals … that have QBI use Form 8995 to figure the QBI deduction if…. [y]ou aren’t a patron in a specified agricultural or horticultural cooperative.

Otherwise, use Form 8995-A, Qualified Business Income Deduction, to figure your QBI deduction."

[turbokarst]

I found I had entered an amount for "Net income allocable to qualified payments from agricultural cooperative... "  Once I cleared that out I'm back to form 8995 as hoped.  Instructions are unclear on this.

[turbokarst]

Want to be clear... my 1099-PATR is NOT for qualified agricultural coop but TurboTax didn't give me the ability to declare that and assumed it was.