FYI that I was able to successfully file the final married, filing jointly tax return on freetaxusa dot com on the first and only try.
Freetaxusa asks for both previous year's AGI and both the surviving spouse and deceased spouse's state ID information.
That's the difference that is why Turbotax returns get rejected by the IRS. Turbotax never asked for the deceased spouse's ID and hence this may be why the IRS cannot "verify" the tax return.
My parents successfully used turbotax for decades, both paper filings and mostly e-filing.
I don't know why macuser or someone else marked this post as spam, but it is not. I'm trying to help everyone else frustrated how to get your tax returns with a deceased spouse filed successfully.
