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I have entered multiple Single Family Home Rentals in Schedule E.
When on Sched E, "Qualified Business Income Deduction" screen, I have entered a 1 for "Rental real estate enterprise number if claiming safe harbor" for each property that I want to aggregate.
The program properly shows the aggregated properties on Form 8995, BUT, a critical diagnostics message states, "Schedule E #1 (#2-#6): The Taxpayer claimed the safe harbor election for this rental property. Pursuant to IRS Rev.Proc.2019-38, a statement PDF must be attached..."
This error appears whether or not the "Business is a qualified trade or business" field includes a 1 or is blank.
The file also has an attachment regarding the safe harbor under the electronic filing, PDF/Miscellaneous screen. Removing or adding this PDF does not mitigate the error.
When on Sched E, "Qualified Business Income Deduction" screen, if I remove the number from the "Rental Real Estate Enterprise Number if claiming safe harbor" field, the error is cleared BUT Form 8995 now lists all the properties separately.
What am I missing?
Am I not allowed to aggregate a Rental Real Estate Enterprise AND take the Rev.Proc.2019-38 safe harbor? Such a result would seem antithetical to the purpose of rp-19-38.
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