FTUSA isn't handling longitude properly on form 3468. How to fix this?

FreetaxB
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My tax return was rejected because invalid coordinates on form 3468.

After investigating, FTUSA input the wrong longitude on the form. The problem is 2-fold:

  1. My longitude is a negative number. I believe FTUSA is treating the negative sign as a digit, and it's saying "The Facility Longitude must be less than or equal to 10 digits." I'm only able to proceed past this screen because my longitude ends with a zero. When I omit this zero, FTUSA fills in the zero for me on the form.Fr
  2. This is the big problem - My longitude starts with a zero. FTUSA is auto-deleting this zero when filling in the form, but IRS is expecting 3 digits on the form. So instead of my form having 012, the zero is deleted, and the form is filled in with 12_, leaving the 3rd digit blank.

How do I fix this? Turbotax had a way for me to pull up the completed form and modify it manually on the form itself before submitting the tax return. FTUSA doesn't seem to have this ability.

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  • FreetaxB
    FreetaxB Member Posts: 3 Newcomer

    To illustrate, let's say my longitude is -012.123450. If I enter "-012.012340", I get the "less than or equal to 10 digits" error.

    If I enter leave off the last zero and enter "-012.12345", I do not get the 10 digits error, but if I Save and Continue and then navigate back to this page, the longitude field has been changed to -12.12345. On the form filled out by FTUSA, it's filled in as -12_.123450. The last zero is being handled correctly, the first zero is not.

    If I omit the negative sign and enter "012.123450", I'm able to Save and Continue without the 10 digit error. But if I navigate back to this page, the longitude field shows 12.12345, and on the actual form filled out by FTUSA, it's filled in as 12_.123450. This seems to indicate the negative sign (and decimal point) are being counted as digits.

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