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23 Replies New MemberI think I understand your question.
Desktop Version of TurboTax:
The TurboTax End User License Agreement (EULA) for the Basic, Deluxe, Premier, and Home & Business CD/Download versions allows you to install TurboTax on all computers owned by you. You may use your TurboTax software to prepare tax returns for you and your immediate family.
In accordance with IRS guidelines, TurboTax allows you to prepare and electronically file up to five federal (that is an IRS rule not TurboTax) and related state tax returns. Additional returns must be filed on paper and Mailed.
The CD version of TurboTax allows you to prepare and e-file up to five federal returns. You can prepare more federal returns with the CD version, but they must be mailed in to the IRS. The ONLINE version of TurboTax only allows ONE return per user ID. This is a significant difference, make sure that you are aware of it when purchasing the TurboTax software.
May 31, 2019 4:43 PM New MemberI see that you can do up to five federal returns with the CD software. How many state returns can be filed? Five?
January 17, 2020 3:55 PM@Driftless51 wrote:I see that you can do up to five federal returns with the CD software. How many state returns can be filed? Five?
Five state returns can be e-filed. Once the 5 e-files have been used then any other tax return, federal and state, have to be printed and mailed.
January 17, 2020 3:57 PMUsing desktop software you get up to five federal e-files. You can actually prepare more than five, but the additional ones have to be printed, signed and mailed. You also get the software to prepare returns for one specific state. There is a fee to e-file a state return ($19.99 and mid-season it goes up to $24.99) --you can avoid the state e-file fee by printing, signing and mailing in the state returns. There is not a limit to how many state returns you can prepare for the one state you have the software for--but information flows from the federal return to the the state. You cannot prepare "stand alone" state returns.
If you need to prepare a return for a different state, you have to purchase the additional state software.
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