I'm not confused any longer. I did these steps:
- Got out of the TTax desktop version of Home & Business 2020 by starting a new return (an illogical requirement),
- Selected the "Prepare W2's/1099's" box (still within TTax Home/Business), and then
- Clicked the blue "Choose Online" button which took me to Quick Employer Forms (via Google Chrome, my default web browser).
- Next I logged in to QEF with my TTax username and password,
- and, the online QEF web pages worked fine to enter data & eFile the forms.
Much Easier way to find QEF = go to this website:
- quickemployerforms.intuit.com
Those of us who do just one or two TTax returns each year will appreciate not having to search "the community" in order to figure out (or in my case, re-discover) how to do things that ought to be intuitive and/or visible in helpful menus.
Access to QEF and the ability to eFile 1099-NEC, 1099-MISC & W2 forms really is "online only."
- Hopefully TTax software developers will reduce future confusion by adding hints or revising menus within TTax Home & Business to clarify where & how eFiling of 1099-NEC/W2 does and does not work.
