@stevewhelan
Thanks for actually trying to make sense of this mess! Not to throw a wrench into your meticulously described analysis of the many flavors of this TT debacle, but my return--which was accepted by efile--unfortunately doesn't fit neatly into any of the categories you described. I had a Schedule C, and a marketplace plan with 1095-A, and met none of the conditions that require a 7206 to be filed. I deleted nothing. The unnecessary 7206 had an erroneously blank Line 1 along with all of the associated mistakes throughout the remainder of that form, culminating in an entry of $0 on Line 14. But the amount of my deduction on Schedule 1 Line 17 was correct, and since Form 7206 wasn't required for my return in the first place I decided to try efiling, and never got an error.
Regardless of how that happened, my main concern at this point is whether--even in the absence of an efiling error--that incorrect & unnecessary 7206 was included in my return. My hope is it wasn't, but at this point--given Intuit's policy of stonewalling to us mere customers--I don't think I'll ever know. My best hope is to save a copy of this entire forum to show the IRS should they ever come calling, I order to be able to demonstrate that this was a known problem with the software and not some attempt to cheat. Aaaargh.
