Turbo Tax could introduce a work-around to this problem. It is a symptom of lazy coding that creates a document unnecessarily, rather than by working through a thorough logic tree. Other providers with better algorithms do not have this issue.
Yes the IRS has a problem, but Turbo Tax could avoid the problem ever being encountered for a majority of submissions.
It is just a lazy response to a major issue with their software that is impacting thousands of users.
