VA Funding Fee

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February 5, 2021
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What if my mortgage company didn't put the funding fee in box 5. Can I just enter it in the same 1098 when I enter it on TurboTax or do I need a corrected 1098?

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Opus 17

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Since the VA funding fee is deductible as mortgage insurance, in full when the loan is made, it should be fine to add it to the 1098 interview, since Turbotax does not provide a separate place to enter mortgage insurance.

Another option would be to enter it separately. When I bought my house recently, the loan was made by "ABC home lenders" and sold to "XYZ bank". The 1098 came from XYZ bank and did not include the daily interest I paid from the date of closing to the end of the month, or the property tax adjustments that were shown on my closing statement. So I entered the 1098 for XYZ bank, and the listed a second lender as ABC bank and reported the closing interest and property tax adjustment (and checked the box for "I did not get a 1098 from this lender"). If your situation is similar, you could list the closing interest adjustment and tax adjustment, along with the VA funding fee, as a separate lender.

r8ders99Author

I am not seeing the area to click that "i did not receive a 1098 from this lender". The only thing close is before the 1098 info says "The seller is financing this loan and we didn't receive a 1098." But the seller is not financing the loan. Just the VA funding fee is paid directly to the VA.

Opus 17

Employee

@r8ders99 wrote:

I am not seeing the area to click that "i did not receive a 1098 from this lender". The only thing close is before the 1098 info says "The seller is financing this loan and we didn't receive a 1098." But the seller is not financing the loan. Just the VA funding fee is paid directly to the VA.

It seems they've changed the interview questions. You can either add it to the existing 1098, or enter it as a fake 1098 in the name of the closing bank. In the end, it's just a dollar amount that gets reported on schedule A. If the IRS wants documentation, they will send a letter, and there isn't anything you can do at this stage to provide the documentation to avoid that.