Using desktop software you get up to five federal e-files. You can actually prepare more than five, but the additional ones have to be printed, signed and mailed. You also get the software to prepare returns for one specific state. There is a fee to e-file a state return ($19.99 and mid-season it goes up to $24.99) --you can avoid the state e-file fee by printing, signing and mailing in the state returns. There is not a limit to how many state returns you can prepare for the one state you have the software for--but information flows from the federal return to the the state. You cannot prepare "stand alone" state returns.
If you need to prepare a return for a different state, you have to purchase the additional state software.
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