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Do I have to file federal and state together on Turbo tax, or can I file them separately ?

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March 22, 2020
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mesquitebean

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@Tammymac66asked: "Do I have to file federal and state together on Turbo tax, or can I file them separately?"

If you are efiling, you have 2 choices:

You can either efile the Federal and state returns at the same time, OR you can efile the Federal return first, and then after the Federal return has been accepted, you can efile the state return.

NOTE: If you decide to efile only the Federal return first, you'll still have to go ahead and pay for both returns before it will let you efile. The only way to pay for a Federal return and not pay for the state return would be to delete the state return (if it allows you) and add it back later, if desired.

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vinoporuva

My federal efile has been accepted (confirmed by text and also through the TurboTax software) but it will not allow me to now submit my state efile. The screen keeps erroring and telling me that I need to also file the federal electronically as well. I check the appropriate boxes but nothing seems to work. Ughh!

I've been a loyal TT fan for decades but this is my last year using them. There have simply been too many issues (i.e. I had to Google for an hour to figure out that the reason the activation screen was blank and wouldn't let me complete installation was because the resolution was too high and I had to revert my screen back to 600x800 in order for window to work). I also could not get the search function to work either. I've never been so frustrated with TT before and next year I'll begin to look toward TaxAct or other offering.