The wording you provided regarding a signature is a request to provide it. As with many tax laws, a certain amount of interpretation may be required to determine the correct tax treatment of a regulation. In this case, is seems TurboTax has decided the phone number is necessary for e-filing. It will be difficult to find out the rationale behind that determination, but an acception will not be made for just your return, so you will have to provide the phone number if you want to e-file your tax return.
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