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New Member
posted Feb 19, 2024 1:04:05 PM

What Should I do? Form 1099-INT I received from my financial institution is blank. Turbo tax is insisting this is an error.

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Level 15
Feb 19, 2024 1:06:00 PM

If the form is blank either ignore it or ask the bank why you received it. 

Level 15
Feb 19, 2024 1:14:37 PM

@anon900 

 

Did you actually receive a blank 1099-INT?

or

Do you have a blank 1099-INT in your tax file and just "Assume" your financial institution put it there?

 

A blank 1099-INT could show up in your tax file, transferred in empty from last year, and it's just waiting for you to put in the information from your real 2023 1099-INT form.

 

New Member
Feb 20, 2024 11:31:05 AM

I'm sorry, I re-wrote the question and ended up inadvertently removing an important part.
Form 1099-INT was complete except for box 17, which is how much state tax was withheld. I ended up just entering $0, since no state income tax was withheld, and it worked.

Level 15
Feb 20, 2024 11:42:46 AM

If that worked, then great.

 

Sometimes imported 1099-INT forms bring in extraneous unneeded information.

IF box 17 on a 1099-INT is empty, we usually tell folks to just delete everything in boxes 15,16,17 and leave them entirely blank.

 

I've never had anything in those 1099-INT state software boxes in .....forever (30 years or more?).

But if there were state taxes withheld, then those boxes would be needed.