Illinois now requires submission of W-2 forms directly to them. Is Intuit going to make a program change that will submit forms to IL when the federal W-2 is filed?

[DoninGA]

It would be helpful if you provide a link to the Illinois Department of Revenue website which has this requirement.
Unable to find this requirement on the IL DOR website.  
This website provides information on e-filing - <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.revenue.state.il.us/MyTax/IL-1040.htm">http://www.revenue.state.il.us/MyTax/IL-1040.htm</...>
and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.revenue.state.il.us/Individuals/File/software.htm">http://www.revenue.state.il.us/Individ...>

[Critter]

Are you completing W-2 forms for your employees ?  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.revenue.state.il.us/ElectronicServices/1099W2.htm">http://www.revenue.state.il.us/Electro...>

[pjhardwick]

Yes, I'm preparing w-2's for businesses.  IL sent out notices--I've talked to them.  If turbo tax doesn't send to them I need to manually enter them at IL website.  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://tax.illinois.gov/ElectronicServices/1099W2.htm">http://tax.illinois.gov/ElectronicServices/10...>

[Critter]

Quick Employer Forms supports e-filing to the Social Security Administration and Internal Revenue Service only. It does not support filing any state employer forms, nor does it support paper-filed forms.

[Critter]

See if you can use the federal FIRE system to also file the state ....

<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/filing-information-returns-electronically-fire">https://www.irs...>

[pjhardwick]

Thank you--good idea.  I will look at for next year, at this point I've entered all the data with Turbo Tax so will just enter it in IL site too.  I had read turbo tax did not file state but was hoping that might change since IL is a large state and no one will use Turbo Tax for this filing w-2's next year if they don't change..

[Critter]

The QEF tool  is a free add on to the TT program so I doubt that TT will spend the money on adding the states anytime soon.

[Critter · Accepted solution]

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Quick Employer Forms helps small business owners like yourself quickly and easily create W-2, 1099-MISC, 1099-INT, and 1099-DIV forms.

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[Opus 17]

Intuit can't to do that.   Any information that you enter in the TurboTax program as a W-2 could be faked or altered, even if it is first directly imported from the provider.  Therefore, the TurboTax W-2 information worksheets are not legal proof of income and are not legally testable copies of your actual W-2. 

(In New York State for example, TurboTax prepares a substitute W-2 form as part of the state tax return package. This form contains all the information from your W-2s, and is sent to the state in lieu of actual W-2s. But, the state then matches the information against federal records, and will send a notice if the information does not match.)

If Illinois requires a physical copy of your authentic W-2. That the only way to provide that is to mail it to them. This would mean either, mailing your entire tax return, or even filing your tax return and then mailing the W-2s with a cover letter.  If the cover letter procedure is used by Illinois, TurboTax will prompt you to print out the necessary cover letter, and you will have to put it in an envelope with a stamp and your W-2s.

[pjhardwick]

I'm preparing w-2's for businesses using the turbo tax to submit them to federal.  This answer does not apply to this.