When you have desktop software you can prepare and e-file up to five federal returns and their associated state returns (with state e-file fees except for NY). With Premier, you will get one included state download, and you will need to purchase two additional state downloads so that you have software for CA, NY and IL. Your daughter will need to prepare part-year returns for the two states she lived/worked in.
The download can be used on any computers that YOU own---you cannot "give" the license to your daughter to use on a computer in her home, so that means you prepare her returns for her on your computer.
State e-file fees can be avoided if you print and mail the CA and IL returns. There is no state e-file fee for NY.
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