Foreign rental income using 1099-Misc

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March 25, 2024
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I tried to use 1099-misc to report my foreign property rental income under $10,000 USD. It asked for an EIN which my renter does not have. TurboTax is flagging it as an error. Can I still proceed by leaving that field blank or are there a better way to go about it?

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mglauner

You don't have to report Rental Income as a 1099-Misc, if you didn't receive one.

You can report rental income received as cash, checks, etc.

Delete your 1099-Misc entry, and enter the Rental Income as 'not on a 1099-misc'.

mythnova

The option on the rental income foreign outside of 1099-Misc isn't there anymore. So its flagging error without an EIN for a foreign national.

ThomasM125

I believe what happened is you deleted the Form 1099-Misc entry then the program just gave you the opportunity to enter another one. Or, you saw the 1099-Misc entry and only saw an option to enter another one. What you need to do is get out of the rental section, then go back in and on the screen that says Review Your (name of rental) Rental Summary update your Rental Income entry and you will see the option to enter rent income not reported on a 1099 form.