It does appear that the problem has finally been fixed, so that all the various trial-and-error work-arounds I've seen suggested in this thread are no longer necessary. In my own situation, after using TurboTax for over 20 years with no problems like this, I was filling a final joint return for myself as the primary taxpayer, and my spouse, who passed away in January 2019. I finished doing the taxes in mid-March and my first attempt to e-File was on March 31. The rejection error I received then by email was (emphasis mine) "IND-032-04 - 'SpousePriorYearPIN' or 'SpousePriorYearAGIAmt' in the Return Header must match the e-File database."
In my case, that never made any sense; on a joint return, a spouse would not have their own Prior Year AGI. And it wasn't actually a PIN issue either. So whether I put in our prior year AGI or not, or tried zero, as some had suggested, it just kept blowing up. You could see in the form view there were no issues with either PIN.
Since the Federal govt. extended the deadline to July 15, and because TurboTax nearly always has "critical updates" to be downloaded when you start the application, I decided to just keep trying periodically after receiving any updates, to see if this problem had been fixed. Nope. No fix until...
Yesterday morning I attempted another e-File, and it did fail, but the error message finally changed...
IND-031-04 - The primary taxpayer's AGI or Self-select PIN from last year does not match IRS records.
Just as it had been doing after each prior failure, when I opened up TurboTax, it took me to the screen where you enter that prior year AGI, and this time it was asking for mine (by my name) instead of my spouse's (by her name) as it had been doing.
So, finally, I entered the prior year AGI one more time, just as I had done after each prior attempt had failed, then I once again attempted to e-File. It was accepted within 15 minutes.
