Why can't I input my SSN on Form 1099-NEC? It is getting pulled up at the federal review section. It will only allow payer's EIN and I cannot click on the SSN box.

[stuntmusic60]

It is not.

And I repeat, this is a 1099 I get every year, and have used successfully in previous within TT, and it has never been a problem.

[elflaco05]

I have found the solution for at least those of us who received a 1099-NEC with the Payer's SSN but had no federal income tax withheld.  Before I do that, let me say that my problems was similar to everyone else's in that I have been successfully electronically filing a similar form for years with no problem.  There is no place report bugs in the Turbotax website so this morning I wasted one hour of my life frustratingly trying to convince Turbotax support that there is an error in their software to no avail.  They were very polite but simply said that tons of changes have been made and that I simply had to request an EIN from then issuer.  They would not report this as a bug either. This answer is wrong, of course, as the 1099-NEC is also issued to contractors that were paid more than $600.  In that case, the issuer most likely does not an EIN to begin with.

However, just now I noticed that the error message actually said something to the effect of "you need an EIN because you had tax withheld".  Wait, what? I then noticed that I did enter 0.0 in the federal tax withheld field to match the paper form.  The solution? Remove the 0, leave it blank and voila! federal review passed and tax filed.  Hope this helps some of you at least.

[DawnC]

Try changing the format to EIN and enter the number.  @stuntmusic60   Is there any tax withheld?  If not make sure there is nothing in that field, no zero, just leave it blank.  Put your cursor in that field and hit the delete button a few time to make sure it is empty.  

[stuntmusic60]

The solution was to delete all the 1099-NEC I had and re-enter them. Whatever error loop TT got in, doing this solved the issue.

[singinacl]

That was it!! Thank you, thank you!

[calvinburkhead]

This solution worked for me, clearing the taxes withheld field from zero to blank.

[_taylor]

THIS!! It worked! I wish I could upvote this or pin it to the top of the page - maaaan, I am so thankful. Thank you! Give this a try if you need it!!!! 

[Texasbanton]

That was the solution for me as well. Entered a "0" in the taxes withheld box, bc 1099nec had it there. deleted the zero, taxes filed. THANK YOU!!!!!

[BigArts]

Finally figured out this headache. Leave box 4 "federal income tax withheld" BLANK, dont put in $0.

Any input into this box triggers a requirement for an EIN and won't allow a SSN

Hope this helps y'all!

[debraclark123]

Perfect solution!  I've been going around and around with this forever ... as soon as I removed the $0 it was fine.