My 1099-NEC Box 6 is blank. The system won't allow me to e-file unless its filled in. What can I do to bypass this?

[ColeenD3]

Box 6 needs an entry if there is an entry in Box 5 or 7. If you only have one state tax return, it isn't necessary to indicate that the income belongs to that state. It will carry forward to your state return.

[prttynpnk811]

There are zero entries in boxes 5-7 on my form.

Do I put the Payer's state or my state?

[JeffreyR77]

Enter the Payor's State.

[jcandrade93]

If boxes 5 and 7 show $0 then make sure you left them empty and didn't manually enter 0 on the form. Same thing happened to me and doing this let me e-file without needing to fill box 6.

[prophet713]

Is this referring to me (tax payer) or the person who paid me as the payer on the 1099-NEC? As mentioned in the initial post, there is no box 6 entry on the form I received. 

[DawnC]

Do you have entries in boxes 5 or 7?  @prophet713 

[prophet713]

This particular 1099-NEC form (I think it was automated via software) doesn't have "boxes" per se, but it creates a list with box number that are relevant. In this case there is only (IRS BOX#) 1 listed for the amount. No box 5, 6, or 7 is listed. Another piece of info I noticed is that, when I'm looking at the request from TurboTax to fill it in, the following number it filled in is my social security (leading me to assume I enter my state, not the person paying me). 

[Critter-3]

In the TT program leave boxes 5, 6 & 7 BLANK.  

[prophet713]

The software will not allow me to leave it blank if I would like to proceed to file. 

[Critter-3]

If this is going to be income on a Sch C then please skip the 1099 entry screen if it is giving you trouble ... you can simply enter your total income  as one total amount under the OTHER option. 

[prophet713]

Thanks for the proposed work around @Critter-3 

[ndmcgiffins]

In case anyone continues to have this issue:

When I went back to that 1099-NEC, I had NOT checked the box that said, "Boxes 5-7 have numbers in them," or whatever specifically it says. Reasonably, I thought that meant those boxes were blank on my TurboTax form, as they are on my paper documents. But when you DO check that box, a section drops down allowing you to enter values for Boxes 5-7, and that's where I could see that there was a "0" typed into Box 5. This was forcing a value for Box 6 in the TurboTax system.

I just deleted the "0" and then I could e-file.