@ onyonhed
Whether or not you have to upgrade to report the 1099-INT depends on the amount of your taxable income or dividends. Free Edition can handle interest income without an upgrade unless you received more than $1,500 in taxable interest or dividends. More than $1,500 would require Schedule B, which is not present in Free Edition. So it depends on the amount of your taxable interest or dividends.
When you get to the 1099-INT section, you will see a screen called "Lets import your tax info" with a lot of financial logos and a search line for your financial institution. Just ignore that screen. That's only if you want to import the 1099-INT, and not all institutions are import partners. Plus it's faster to just enter the 1099-INT manually anyway. So leave the financial institution search line blank and do not select a logo. Instead, way down in the lower right corner of that screen (scroll down) is a gray button "I'll type it in myself." Click that, and on a subsequent screen you can manually type in the institution name and the data from your 1099-INT.
On a subsequent screen where you enter your 1099-INT data, if you have data in boxes other than Box 1 or Box 3 of your 1099-INT, there is a place to checkmark "My form has info in other boxes", which will get additional data fields to appear.
