You are right: this is a totally brain dead feature of TurboTax. It pretty much ruins the entire TurboTax experience, which is otherwise great, for no reason. It's inexplicable why we must be tortured by this obvious deficiency. They let you file an extension electronically for free, but it's ridiculously cumbersome and redundant and risky regarding spreading social security numbers around. Why is being able to print an extension not a seamless part of the program along with everything else? And why is it so difficult to even find out how to file even an electronic extension? I wish they would correct this glaring problem, which would be very easy for them to do.
