I've been e-filing Turbotax returns for family members for years, long ago learning the trick to mark
the "Third Party Designee" fields with the Info Worksheet. (Aside: much customer support would be
saved by having it be an interview question.)
Nevertheless, although actually it appears on the Form 1040 hardcopy, it doesn't appear to flow
through to the IRS. The reason I can tell is that several times I've needed to call IRS to talk about
a return where I'm the designee. It's a black hole -- the rep says "I don't see anything in the
file about that", and then mentions Form 8821.
So, to Intuit -- can you get this to be a useful flow-thru item to IRS by generating the Form 8821
on behalf of the designee? If that can't be done for legal reasons (wet signature, notary, etc.)
please remove the tease entirely, or inform users that designees cannot be done without
extra physical copy work.
